I will be talking about yellow fever. Yellow fever is a very easy disease to get and it’s very deadly. Yellow fever is also known as sylvatic fever. This is a pretty fatal virus‚ people who get infected (20-50%) may die. Usually people will get this disease by going to different places like jungles and tropical places like that‚ so usually travelers and people who live in those kinds of environments will get it. A lot of what i’m going to be talking about is how this disease spreads‚ what causes
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Sanders Anatomy and Physiology May 16‚ 2016 Introduction The novel I read for the project was “Fever 1793” by Laurie Halse Anderson. Fever 1793 is a story about a little girl named Matilda Cook who lives during the time that Yellow Fever broke out. Some of the novel is fiction‚ and some of the book is historical. Key Idea 1 The first Key Idea of the novel is the fever itself. The fever changes how everyone lives. It makes some leave the town and some stay. It makes people think some are
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Yellow fever is an acute viral disease is a hemorrhagic fever caused by the Flavivirus. Acute means it comes onset rapidly meaning it affects the whole body. Experts believe the disease originated in Africa and it was introduced in South America in the slave trade within the 16th century. Several major disease epidemic cases have taken place in Europe‚ the Americas and Europe since the 17th century. It was deemed as the most common dangerous disease in the 19th century. A virus carried by a mosquito
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Fever 1793 Fever 1793 is about the summer of 1793 and Matilda (aka) Mattie Cook lives above her family’s coffee shop with her widowed mother and her grandfather. Mattie hates doing chores and spends her summer days avoiding them trying to turn her family’s coffee shop to the best Philadelphia has ever seen. But then things go wrong and yellow fever breaks out or “The Fever”. The Fever spreads up and down the streets destroying everything in its way to destroy. The huge outbreak turns Mattie’s
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The doctors who take care of the disease called yellow fever are Philadelphia doctors and the French. The fever was spreading like a swarm of bees going flower to flower. Yellow fever started in 1793. Ships brought infected mosquitos to Philadelphia and because of this became a horrible disaster that killed 2000-5000 people. Once the mosquito bites a person it draws blood from the person and then the mosquito bites another person where it releases the blood from the other person and then the infection
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In this in class movie presentation‚ we viewed a documentary of John Marshall and his power of making the supreme court the powerhouse that it is today. John Marshall is displayed through some of the big supreme court cases such as Marbury verse Madison‚ McCullough verse Maryland‚ and Dred Scott verse Stanford. Being the fourth chief justice of the United States‚ Marshall was known for establishing the courts right to exercise a judicial review. The film did a great job showing the court cases Marshall
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Yellow fever killed over 5‚000 people in Philadelphia in 1793. Yellow fever is a highly contagious fever that is transmitted by mosquitoes. Some symptoms of yellow fever include an onset of fever‚ chills‚ severe headache‚ nausea‚ fatigue‚ weakness‚ and vomiting. Treatment of yellow fever in the 1700’s included bloodletting‚ herbs‚ other material treatments‚ and also simply doing nothing. In Fever 1793‚ Laurie Halse Anderson alters history‚ but maintains some historical accuracy. The setting of the
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Characters all have different traits and personalities‚_____ ? In the novel Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys‚ Joana is one of the main characters in the book who is struggling to live in the harsh conditions of the war. Although the book focuses on three other main stories‚ Joana’s story seemed most important. Joana is a young girl in her early twenties who has fled from Lithuania to avoid suffering from the NKVD officers. She does not know the location of her family and she stumbles through the harsh
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The book When China Ruled the Seas‚ despite horrific points involving main characters‚ is more a tale of diversification then of domination. The massive navel fleet of the Chinese army was meant to be more of a show for the world that Emperor Zuh Di was more then willing to put on as a celebration to his accent to the dragon thrown. This nonlethal way of thinking is something that today even people do not thoroughly grasp‚ a massive army is meant to purely intimidate not celebrate successes of a
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high fever developed accompanied by constipation. This stage lasted around three days‚ and then the fever suddenly broke and the patient seemed to recover. But only for a few short hours.” This quotation is showing us that this fever wasn’t like the ones they had. Normally their fevers would be able to go down because of the medicine they gave the patient but this fever would go away for a short amount of time and com right because. It also says “ While mortality rates for yellow fever varied
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