This chapter was extremely interesting historically speaking. I chose the topic of the topic of the Black Death because of the major role it played in shaping the world culturally, economically, and politically. Before the chapter I didn’t have the slightest clue as to the true magnitude of the black plague, and its far reaching effects on the world. I also found it interesting that the arrival of Europeans triggered catastrophic effects on the societies of the Americas. I never realized the true implication of their voyages to new lands.
During the epidemic of the Salem Witch Trials, that took place during 1692, 19 people were sentenced to death. Even though this occurred many centuries ago, there are several examples of epidemics that occur in our society today. The Crucible and Zika virus ‘spreading explosively,’ WHO leader says are both examples of texts that clearly show the theme of epidemic. In The Crucible, there were many people that were accused and punished for witchcraft. In the article Zika virus, it talks about the Zika virus and how quick it’s spreading.
Boston Smallpox Epidemic of 1721: When smallpox broke out in Boston, Cotton Mather introduced an untested medical procedure called “inoculation”, which would introduce a small amount of the virus to a patient, in hoping they would become immune to it. Many were opposed to it, even though it worked. Many people died due to the epidemic. 31. Common Sense: Thomas Paine wrote a book called "Common Sense", it sold more than 150,000 copies when the population was only 3 million.
While reading one immediately gets a sense of the harsh symptoms and gruesome death that someone with Marburg would have to endure. A picture becomes painted in the reader’s mind of the horrifying capabilities of the Marburg virus which has the potential to eradicate entire populations. The next few chapters are when the author describes other outbreaks of Ebola which had occurred before Monet had contracted the virus. While describing one of these outbreaks the author, Richard Preston concentrates on one particular story, the story of Nancy Jaax. Nancy was a scientist which had a very close call to almost infecting herself with the virus while examining a sample trying to find the cure for Marburg.
The most deadly disease was smallpox, commonly being misdiagnosed with other diseases. They had an effect on the world then and still have an effect on our world
The author describes H5N1 as bird flu like virus, which spreads from chickens to humans and is very contagious and has a high fatality rate. If the definition of H5N1 was not present, the reader would have to make an assumption of what it is; however, there are multiple hints that would help the reader figure out what H5N1 was through context clues. Due to the fact that “The Dealiest Virus had multiple context clues to help define H5N1, the definition in “Out of the Wild” is needed and the author does a better job to assert what Marburg is. Another rhetorical pattern used by both authors is cause and effect, which plays a big role in developing the severity of the viruses. In “Out of the Wild,” Quammen uses cause and effect to show what could happen to the world if the Marburg virus was to escape the bats and get to other animals and eventually into human nature.
However, diseases began to impact populations more than previously imaginable. For example, syphilis became dangerous
Pd.2 Compare and Contrast Yellow Fever Doctors In Philadelphia in 1793, a disease that filled the whole town with terror broke out and struck the world, yellow fever. The disease spread rapidly and killed an estimated 2,000-5,000 people. Long ago, the best doctors in America lived in Philadelphia during this epidemic disease. They studied yellow fever as best as they could with their prior knowledge from previous diseases.
One of the biggest summer nuisance would be the mosquito, but more specifically the Ades aegypti mosquito. The Aedes aegypti is the vector for yellow fever and the cause of the numerous deaths. In her book The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic the Shaped Our History, Molly Caldwell Crosby presents the idea that the mosquito is not just the only reason an epidemic occurred in the 18th century. This story accounts for the disease that broke out across the world and nearly destroyed almost all of North America’s population, which some believe could have been avoided by simple quarantine analysis and sanitary methods.
How the AIDS epidemic is more so for entertain purposes and also those to blame guilty for not adjusting their behaviors. Therefore, because they choose not to they are causing dangers to themselves and others. The media wants to forget about those in the supposedly “deviant subculture”. A great example from the Bersani’s reading would be how television would include the family dog before they would include the gay sister or brother.
When the bubonic plague first arrived no-one knew what the cause was. The physicians at the time thought the plague was caused by “body fluids being out of balance” (Chapter Three: GREAT PLAGUES
Nobody knew how the epidemic had started.”. Mr. Chiu was wrongfully accused of causing a disturbance while waiting for a train to take him and his bride back home from their honeymoon. When he was released from the police’s horrid
My final project on the Black Plague helped me gain a much better understanding on how this plague had a large effect on Europe. The reason why the Black Death was chosen was because Jack and I felt like we didn’t know enough about the black death even though it is viewed as a really big part of history. We also felt like the Black Plague was an interesting topic, even though we lacked lots of knowledge on it. I was surprised on how much the plague had an effect on Europe. Some effects on the plague had that I didn’t know was the political effect it had in Europe.
Some of the historical context in the text Cursed By a Bite includes when Kaplan references the plague that spread through Europe, the history of garlic in many cultures, and historical accounts of cases of rabies. The audience is
A horrific killer is loose across the land of England. There is nothing to fight it as it continues to rapidly create chaos in a terrible nightmare called life. The killer is a sickening disease in the air that is impossible to contain. 1) It is 1352, in Northern Europe five years since the first symptoms of this illness had been exhibited. It was dormant in my body until when I recently contracted the wildly contagious illness by attempting to take care of my brother.
