...The Spanish Flu was the most devastating pandemic our world has ever seen. Even though few medical records exist, historians believe that 20 – 100 million people were killed by this flu. Despite the number of deaths and the severity and geographic reach of this disease, it merits little attention in the history books. Today one of our greatest medical threats is AIDS. The Spanish Flu is exponential compared to AIDS casualties (Gloria). The Spanish Flu of 1918-19 affected our world like no other disease in history. It changed the ways people sought medical help, the ways physicians treated illness, the role of medical researchers and how society, particularly medical and political leaders respond to pandemic diseases. Influenza is a unique respiratory viral disease infecting the whole respiratory tract-namely, the nose, sinuses, the throat, lungs, and even the middle ear. The disease spreads from person to person by airborne droplets produced when an infected individual coughs or sneezes. Acute symptoms of influenza, including fever, headache, shivering, muscle pain, cough, and pneumonia, are the result of the virus replicating in the respiratory tract, in which infected cells die and slough off (Rosenberg). The Spanish Flu got its name from newspaper reports of that period. It was thought that the influenza infection was carried form Asia to Spain during World War I. During WWI Spain remained neutral and the government did not censor the press. Spanish papers were filled...
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...The Spanish flu pandemic, otherwise called the Influenza of 1918, was recognized at first as a flu pandemic in Spain. Afterward, it spread around the world and killed approximatively 50 million people between March 1918 and the spring of 1919. The flu of 1918 killed more people than World War One . The war served as an ally of the disease. The Flu could easily spread across the entire world by the trade routes, shipping lines and by accompanying soldiers from their native country to the battlefield and infecting everything in its travel. The Spanish Flu is known as the most devastating worldwide epidemic of the history . It lasted one year and infected the third of the world’s population (around 500 million person). One fifth of the world was...
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...The 1918 Influenza Epidemic Have you ever wondered why it’s so important to get vaccinated for the flu and what is so dangerous about it? Well, the influenza epidemic of 1918 was fatal and disastrous because many people died and suffered through a lot of pain. People also perished because they lost many family members and/or friends. The 1918 influenza epidemic was very devastating. In the text at http://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/city-chicago.html# it states, “...the Windy City experienced a staggering 38,000 cases of influenza and over 13,000 cases of pneumonia.” By the middle of October, the influenza infected Chicago, Peoria, Kankakee, and Rockford (which are all cities in Illinois). By the end of October, Chicago was reporting 10,000 new cases each week. The 1918 epidemic killed more ten times more people than in World War I. Also, the...
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...Christopher Columbus found America by accident. He was looking for a new route to the far east, but he found America instead. Conquistadors came looking for gold and fame at any cost. Colonization had a big impact on the people that got conquered because many of them died due to the diseases brought by the Europeans such as smallpox, influenza, and measles. Others were casualties of the conquest, and many became slaves. The Indians' culture was destroyed because the Spanish believed that the Indians worshipped the devil and that they needed to be converted to Christianity. The Spanish conquistadors justified colonization as a way to expand Catholicism and to gain a commercial advantage over Portugal. In my opinion, their justification is not...
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...across the world. It is still a very big threat to people today, as the virus is constantly evolving, along with it’s vaccines. Just last year in North Carolina alone, it killed over 137 people from October to January. Throughout time, the influenza virus has evolved and different strains have spread across the globe. This has been the cause of some of the worst pandemics the world has seen, and has led to the development and constantly changing vaccines available today. The flu...
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...The Columbian exchange started shortly after Christopher Columbus founded the Americas. This was trade between the “new” and “old” worlds, they traded gold, fur, diseases, and many other things. Although this seemed like a great idea in the beginning it killed off a lot of the Indians. When the Europeans came over to America, they brought over disease such as the smallpox, influenza, and measles. The Indians didn’t have any antibiotics to kill off the diseases thus killing most of the population of the Indians. There was also a plus for the Columbian exchange, the Europeans brought over new technology, they brought over bow and arrows, cannons, and even guns, this shaped what America is today. Bacons rebellion was a war in the late 1600’s between two men, William Berkeley and Nathaniel Bacon. This war started when Bacon and Berkeley had settled in the town of Virginia, Bacon wanted to push out all Indians, he stated how they were the enemies. Although the governor of the town, Berkeley felt like it was not morally right to push out the Indians. He said how he didn’t want to attack the “friendly”...
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...In the years between 1519 and 1540, conquistadores invaded the Americas and ruined the lives of many, if not all, Native Americans who lived in the New World during that time period. According to “Makers of America: The Spanish Conquistadores”, a conquistador is someone from Spain who traveled to the New World in search of God, gold, and glory (18-19). The name conquistadores translates into “conquerors” in Spanish. The conquistadores claimed all the land from Colorado to Argentina in only a mere fifty years after Columbus’s discovery of the New World (Makers of America: The Spanish Conquistadores 18-19). Although others may argue that conquistadores should be named heroes for exploring the New World, it is important to remember that conquistadores...
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...the conquest of the Americas when Hernan Cortes landed in South America and eventually helped lead one of the most unbelievable conquests in world history. Cortes had arrived in South America with just about 500 soldiers. It was with these soldiers that he had managed to defeat and conquer one of the most militarily powerful civilizations in the New World. The Aztecs could field up an army of one quarter million battle tested soldiers at any given time. Even with these circumstances, Cortes was still able to defeat and conquer the Aztecs using various strategies and techniques that were vital in the conquering process. One of the biggest advantages that Cortes and his men had was the possession of superior military technology “… such as iron weapons and gunpowder…” which is something that the Aztec’s had never seen before. Canons were used to devastate the walls that were built as defenses by the Aztec’s and which led to the downfall of the civilization. Although the Spanish had a large weapon advantage, they were still outnumbered drastically. This led to the recruitment of some of the Aztec’s subject peoples “… who supplied him with thousands of warriors”. These warriors added large numbers to Cortes’ army and he was able to suit them up with iron armor and weapons that created a distinct advantage on the battlefield. Although these provided great advantages for Cortes and his men, one of the most distinct factors that resulted in the Spanish victory resulted from...
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...From 1400 to 1700, European exploration had a huge impact on the lives of the Indigenous people of North America. The European brought new products and Animals along with new diseases that the Native Americans never had before, also the lives of those who lived in America before the Europeans got there and their life drastically changed as soon as they got there. The new Diseases that the Europeans brought to America affected the Native Americans to an extent that they couldn't do anything about it that they just laid there dying. The illness was so dreadful that no one could walk or more. The sick were so utterly helpless, they could only lie on their beds like corpses…” as Miguel Léon-Portilla stated in The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account...
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...Pandemic Emergency Plan Name Course Professor Date Overview of Pandemic Emergency plan The Pandemic Emergency Plan is one of the 2015-2016 bills (code CMS–3178–P) addressing the campus preparedness actions and the responses designed to maximizing pandemic impact on operations within the Campus environs, students, and the employees (Dietz, 2012). The plan design is with intents of reading, understanding and exercising in response to threats and occurrences of a pandemic or just any other outbreak that may become a global epidemic. Pandemic means a widespread outbreak of communicable ailments, passing as multiple waves of illness in human population globally (Fagel, 2013). It is also illness with impact to the smaller geographical region. In the case of occurrence of a pandemic, then it shall have higher education among industries that are severely affected due to risks resultants from open and campus accessible and traveling by faculties, students, as well as the staff (PHS COF, 2014). The impacts may include lengthy closure periods of the learning institutions, unprecedented demands on students counseling and heath related services, evacuation and relocation of the students in the residence halls and significant revenue losses. In the case of a pandemic, the greatest challenges experienced in the university include the following: 1. Maintenance of students' progress to degree and research on faculties while in compliance with orders to campus closure. 2. Managing staff, faculty...
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...caused many Native Americans to die. In addition, another result of the Europeans colonizing the Americas was that the Native Americans were introduced to new foods and animals, resulting in cultural diffusion. Lastly, in the result of European explorers coming to the New World resulted in the Native Americans to be treated badly, such as being sold into slavery. Overall, the result of Europeans settling in the New World influenced the Native Americans ways of living. First of all, the most direct way that European colonization affected the Native Americans, was the infectious diseases that they brought...
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... Jennifer Lee Gary HCS/457 March 7, 2012 Reginald Bernard “SWINE FLU” Influenza, or “flu”, as it is more commonly known, is a ubiquitous in the disease profile of any developed or developing country. Many thousands of people fall victim to seasonal flu each year, recovering just as quickly. Only the very debilitated or immunosuppressed have life-threatening squealed. Flu also shows a “cyclic” trend where “epidemics” of flu occur every 6-7 years. In these years greater than an average expected number of people fall ill due to flu but these epidemics last only about a year or two Recently, (or as research shows not so recently), a new strain of influenza has come to light called “swine” flu. Also called pig or hog flu, this strain of influenza causes respiratory disease in pigs, hogs and other swine. The symptoms manifested are barking cough, poor appetite, lethargy and malaise. Alarmingly, this strain of influenza is readily transmissible to humans and causes much the same symptoms in humans as it does in pigs. Origin of the H1N1 Strain The origins of swine flu are unclear. Many researchers say that the outbreak was first localized in March of 2009 in a village in Mexico, when health authorities identified a spate of deaths...
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...Geographical Situation Peru is located in the west of South America, and has borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and Chile. It is almost twice the size of Texas. Peru is the third largest country in South America, and has a wide range of natural resources. The country has three main regions which are coast, mountains and jungle (Peru Travel, 2015). Generally, May through October is the dry season; November through April is the rainy season, and there are usually more than 15 days during rainy season in Peru (Frommers, 2015). Demographical Situation Peru has a population of 30,444,999 people that ranks 44th in the world. The official language is Spanish and Quechua, and there are 84.1% Peruvians speak Spanish and 37% speak Quechua. The largest age group is 25-54 years, and accounts for 39.65% of total population. The population growth rate is 0.97% that ranks for 120th in the world. The life expectancy at birth is 73.48 years old. The urban population is 78.6% of total population, and major urban areas are LIMA, Arequipa, and Trujillo (CIA, 2015). Cultural Situation Peruvians are increasingly proud of the historical and cultural wealth, both past and present. After turning its back on its Andean origins for centuries, modern Peru now fully recognizes the value of the Andes and the Amazon for all that they represent in terms of resources and ancient traditions. Peru's civilization is the oldest in South America. Neighboring countries have been created from ancient Peruvian...
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...Chapter 1 New World Beginnings I. The Shaping of North America A. About six thousand years ago people started recording history B. About five hundred years ago Europeans came to America for the first time C. The theory of the super continent, Pangaea was apparent II. Peopling the Americas A. The Land bridge theory 1. As the Great Ice Age lessen, so did the glaciers from North America 2. Suggest a land bridge connecting Eurasia with North America was formed from the melting of the glaciers in preset day Bering Sea 3. Came about 35,000 years ago B. People 1. Those people that crossed the bridge arrived in South America from Siberia A. About 54 million of them populated North and South America by 1492. 2. Centuries later many tribes, languages,...
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...expanding beyond the reaches of their own lands. Instead they began focusing on what lay beyond the vast oceans. With the discovery of a new world, the distant shores soon to be known as America provided both refuge for those seeking religious freedom as well as the potential of a better life. However, this new land was not without its own challenges as is detailed in the Session 1, Discussion 2. Despite the foreign terrain, brutal weather and lack of preparation on the settler's part, the indigenous people took it upon themselves to aid the newcomers through many setbacks. Even with their help, early Native Americans were too trusting of the European settlers and were cheated out of their own valuable possessions, land and way of life. America was a land just waiting to be claimed and taken. This was the belief at the forefront of every explorer that set foot and planted the flag of their homeland into the soil. Captain Verrazzano of France, was one such explorer who wrote the letter "Verrazzano's Voyage: 1524" found in The American Tradition in Literature by George and Barbara Perkins. With details of the land and the native people he encountered, it is...
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