“Nevertheless, many continued hoping that the epidemic would soon die out and they and their families be spared” (Camus pg 85). Many people believe that if there is an epidemic that it wont affect their families. This is not the case an epidemic can hurt anyone. Many believe that an epidemic is just a phenomenon and will eventually vanish. Without education their will be a hard time getting people to follow the sanitation procedures in preventing the spread of the epidemic. Their needs to be education involved helping to stop and slow down an epidemic. This was the case for the bubonic plague that was the plague in the book The Plague. Today more people are educated, which is causing the spread of Ebola to be contained. The Plague and Ebola …show more content…
Many believe the origin is from fruit bats. “The presence of virus in lung tissue implies that respiratory or oral spread of infection could occur in the confined spaces where bats roost, and isolation of virus from feces suggests the existence of mechanisms for transmission of infection to other animals” (“Experimental Inoculation of Plants and Animals with Ebola Virus”). Scientists believe that fruit bats can be the cause of the transmission of Ebola but they still are not completely sure it is the cause. Bats are spreading the disease scientist are just not sure if they are the origin of the virus. It is clear that humans can spread it to other humans. They can spread it from an exchange of sweat, blood, and exchange of body fluids from person to person.
The beginning stages of the plague were feeling pain in neck, armpits, and groin and lumps on their neck. “… vomiting pinkish bile into a slop-pail. … His temperature was 103, the ganglia of his neck and limbs were swollen, and two black patches were developing on his thigh. He now complained of internal pains” (pg 19). This was the middle stage of the disease. You would vomit; have a high temperature, swollen limbs, and black patches on your thigh. The final stage was a spike in your temperature, delirious, and the ganglia on the neck were painful to …show more content…
A major difference was how the epidemics were spread. The plague was spread from dead rats to humans, whereas Ebola is spread from an exchange of sweat, blood, or exchange of body fluids from person to person. The symptoms were another major difference. For the plague the people had pain in neck, armpits, and groin and lumps on their neck. For Ebola the symptoms are “fever, severe headache, joint and muscle aches, chills, and weakness” (“Ebola Virus and Marburg Virus"). Both Ebola and the plague had muscle and joint pain in the neck. The reactions of the people were different. For The Plague they ignored the epidemic and believed that it was made up, whereas for Ebola many people are terrified of getting it and are more cautious. Another major difference is that nowadays people are more educated. We are more aware of what has happened in the past that we are more aware of the affects of an epidemic and the amount of deaths it can cause. Since we have social media we are constantly up-to-date with how Ebola is spreading, being contained, and how to prevent people from obtaining the virus. With the Plague people did not have Internet or an acceptable education system. Which is why it spread so fast throughout the town. One thing that they did which helped was to burn the bodies of the dead rats and humans. We are currently doing this for the Ebola virus. Burning the affected bodies helps