It’s has been determined that it is contagious but will not make you sick. While everyone one in Lubbock was getting over their disease the town of Sweetwater had a fire costing $35,000 in damage. Crosbyton Texas, Lubbock
In the beginning of The Hot Zone By Richard Preston, readers are introduced to the appearance of a virus similar to Ebola that strikes in western Kenya during 1980 and eventually costs the life of Charles Monet, a Frenchman living by himself. When Monet and his friend travel to the Kitum Cave, he returns to his home and becomes ill on the seventh day. The author then describes Monet’s symptoms and illness in graphic details, providing a sense of terror for the readers. When a doctor named Shem Musoke treats Monet in the Nairobi Hospital, he develops the symptoms of the virus himself. Due to the fact Musoke feels particularly unwell after treating Monet, he is then opened up during an exploratory surgery and his liver appears to be red and
This presents how not only has virus been located in the US and West Africa but in another known location as
According to CDC (Centers of Disease Control and Prevention), “Valley Fever is not contagious. Valley Fever is caused by fungus that lives in the environment. Symptoms of Valley Fever are usually similar to the flu.” In the novel Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, valley fever is a crucial event. Valley fever affected people in the 1930s, was used throughout the novel, and was depicted correctly by the author.
We’ve had many global outbreaks in our world of diseases and viruses. The novel The Hot Zone by Richard Preston is about an outbreak of a vicious disease. It gives a terrifying, true narrative about an eruption of a deadly virus, Ebola, the great slate wiper, the disease that did horrific things you did not want to imagine (Preston 64). The vicious virus approached upon the people out of nowhere, when no one knew what it was or why it was happening. The government's response was very well reacted to the situation, they jumped right on the situation, contained the virus and tried to find a cure as soon as possible.
This specific bacteria attacks the lymph system causing the infection to spread throughout the body. The reservoirs of this bacteria and disease are mice, rats, squirrels and other small animals. A reservoir is a host of an infection. The vector, meaning carrier, is insects such as fleas and
Early Europeans and Cortes had brought over smallpox, which is an airborne virus that causes fever, vomiting, and blisters that cover your body in fluid. One in three people die from smallpox, making it a very deadly disease. Europeans had been exposed to smallpox and had built immunities against it, but the Aztecs' immune systems had never experienced such a virus, making them especially vulnerable to the disease. The Aztec population was reduced to 60% of its original numbers in a span of one year. "Mayan and Incan civilizations were also nearly wiped out by smallpox..., reducing some indigenous populations in the new world by 90 percent or more."
It can lead to fractures and deformity. Also midwesterners had Valley Fever which is a lung disease. It is endemic in the southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico, Central America, and South America. This fungus naturally grows in alkaline soil in hot, dry areas. The spores can lie formant for a long time in harsh condtions like heat and drought.
Therefore, most of the infected people are not aware of having that disease in its primary stage. The sores may develop into ulcers that secret uncolored, very infectious fluid. The lesions most of the time are healed without treatment in about six, or it will develop into the secondary
These childhood illnesses had grown widespread in most regions other than remote villages, killing one fourth to one half of all children before they turned six years old. However, with the notable exception of influenza, survivors carried some level of immunity, and frequently absolute protection, to the majority of these illnesses. Yellow fever and falciparum malaria likewise made their way across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas. Falciparum malaria is by far the most severe form of that plasmodial infection. These illnesses circulated throughout Native American communities as epidemics in the centuries following 1492.
Importance of Writing Rob Lowe wrote his book, Love Life, to inform and entertain the reader. He talks about the struggles he had faced: drugs, alcohol, sex, and how he overcame them with the help of his wife and children. Lowe uses rhetorical devices, such as diction, imagery and syntax, in Love Life, to show the shifts in tone from the fallout of drug abuse to letting go of his oldest son to go to college. Diction helps shape the thoughts and perception of the reader. The author's word choice shows the shift from seriousness, sadness, and happiness.
This novel “Fever 1794” gave me the knowledge of the different perspectives of Philadelphia during the yellow fever outbreak. “Fever 1793” is a novel about a girl named Matilda and how she had to go through the deadly, depressing and horrible yellow fever outbreak, which affected her life in many different areas. Yellow fever was a disease that spread across Philadelphia in the late 1790s it was a deadly disease at that time because people didn't know the exact cause and the exact way to cure people who were diagnosed with it. For instance, Dr.Benjamin Rush who was a famous doctor at the time thought bleeding people by cutting a part on their arm so the bad infected blood would come out, many people thought that getting bled would cure them,
The major diseases that affected the people in this assigned population and time period are small pox, measles, malaria, influenza, typhus and numerous of other diseases that killed thousands of people often in tandem. Nonetheless, with the foreigner’s arrival the course of history change; to begin with, the aching bones, high fever, burning chest, abdominal pain, consumption, and the headaches all erupted as signs, symptoms, and threats to mortality (Anderson, 2007, p. 148). However, an ancient idea regarding the causation and spread of diseases contemplated that air did not act as a medium for the spread of disease; rather air itself contained miasma or pollutant. Still, medical science deals with the human body in terms of health and its
Smallpox is a highly contagious and fatal disease that had a huge impact on the human population. It is thought to have been originated from India or Egypt at least 3,000 years ago. Smallpox is caused by two variations of the variola virus, variola major and variola minor. Variola major is the most common form of smallpox. It enters the body through the lungs and is carried to the internal organs.
Socioeconomic, psychological, biological and behavioral factors are included in many different causes and correlates of crime. Many theories provide a multiple cause of how people become criminal. Differential A. theory says through the relations with others, gang is for example, individuals study the values, attitudes, techniques and motives for criminal behavior. According to train theory, social structures in the societies encourage citizens to commit crime “Higher total socioeconomic status (usually measured using the three variables income (or wealth), occupational level, and years of education) correlate with less crime. ”(Psychology wiki Correlates of crime,) Labeling theory embraces the idea that the elite’s negatively labeling minorities
