mild to moderate illness in most people. Pandemic influenza occurs when a new or novel strain of influenza virus capable of spreading easily from person to person emerges. Since it is a new strain‚ there is often little or no immunity to it and it may spread rapidly‚ creating a global outbreak. An important difference from seasonal influenza is that healthy people in all age groups may be at higher risk for serious complications from the pandemic virus. Pandemics are‚ fortunately‚ rare but can have devastating
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The contagious viral infection that emerged in 2009 was unexpected and sent shockwaves across the globe as it came many years after the worldwide flu pandemics occurring in 1918‚ 1957‚ and 1986. This new pandemic spiraled out of control unexpectedly causing the World Health Organization (WHO) to call it the first pandemic of the 21st century‚ due to many outbreaks across the globe (Bartolotti‚ R. 2012). The objective of this paper is to focus on the information and to clearly establish all measures
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Infectious diseases have been around for centuries and they have destroyed‚ killed whole populations and wreaked havoc across the entire world. They’ve caused epidemics and/or pandemics. Epidemics are when an infectious disease affects a large population within a geographic region. Pandemics are epidemics on much larger scale‚ globally. Influenza‚ AIDS/HIV‚ yellow fever‚ and cholera are just a few examples of the worst epidemics known to the world. Cholera has been around since ancient times
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Panic Goes Viral: Why the social response to a pandemic is as important as the medical effort Reaction Paper: A pandemic could cause too many lives at stake and lost just as how past outbreaks had taught all of us. And in response‚ we had learned to cope by finding out how to cure the disease and counteract the outbreak from spreading further into a greater population. However‚ it is not only the medical effort that is needed in working against a pandemic‚ mass communication also plays a role in this
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Health Organization The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It was first officially made and put into constitution on the 7th of April 1948. It is said they do good and never bad. In 2009 when the influenza pandemic (H1N1) hit the world‚ the world health organization was accused of spreading "fear and confusion" rather than "immediate information". This resulted in a huge collaboration with other world health authorities and foundations. How did they find the
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Pigeons 2. Can dogs and cats get Cryptococcus? Yes 3. What is the infectious agent for Bubonic Plague? Bacterium Yersinia Pestis 4. By how much was the world population reduced during the Plague pandemic? Estimate of 450 million 5. What year (within the past 100 years) did the world experience a flu pandemic? 1918 6. What are 3 symptoms of chikungunya fever? Fever‚ Vomiting‚ nausea‚ head ache and joint pain 7. What bacterium causes Lyme’s disease? Borrelia 8. What is ‘erythema migrans?’ A rash
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7 Worst Killer Plagues in history Smallpox (430 BC? - 1979): Killed more than 300 million people worldwide in the 20th century alone‚ and most of the native inhabitants of the Americas Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a contagious disease unique to humans. Smallpox is caused by either of two virus variants named Variola major and Variola minor. The deadlier form‚ V. major‚ has a mortality rate of 30–35%‚ while V. minor causes a milder form of disease called
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authorities lost track of the casualties; the numbers were overwhelming. By the time the disease burned out‚ the estimated death toll rose around fifty-million people. This 1918 influenza outbreak was by far the most deadly pandemic in human history. The normal death curve of a pandemic‚ is a U shape‚ targeting the young and the elderly and completely passing over all in between. This one however‚ is a W shape‚ striking children under age
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and honor. However‚ the destruction and horrors that soon followed their actions made their reasons seem hollow. In comparison to World War 2‚ the situation for soldiers in World War 1 was much more grave because of chemical warfare‚ the influenza pandemic of 1918‚ and trench warfare. To begin with‚ chemical warfare aided in making the horrors of World War 1. Chemical Weapons can have varying effects on it’s victims as each weapon has a different goal. For example‚ one of the less lethal chemical
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The Black Death infected an extensive part of the world with the disastrous bubonic plague. In addition to the Black Death spreading around Europe‚ it spread to Africa and the Middle East. The plague was first reported in Caffa‚ Crimea. The plague then spread to Sicily‚ Genoa‚ Venice‚ Pisa‚ and Marseilles. As the disease rapidly spread‚ it spread to France‚ Portugal‚ Spain‚ England‚ Germany‚ and Scandinavia. The plague did not slow down‚ it kept spreading to more people in different places. The plague
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