Ebola Vs Listeria

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are the third leading cause of death in the United States and the first leading cause of death worldwide (3). Thus, should EID's be considered an oncoming threat to human existence or is it God's response to our unbiblical stewardship of the Earth or is it nature's practical solution to overpopulation.

Worldwide, infectious diseases kill millions of people each year. In fact, they are the leading killer of children and cause 16% of all global

Throughout the world of modern science, the human race is faced with a broad range of problems that require strong, valid solutions. This concept is apparent then in The New Yorker’s, “The Deadliest Virus” and in Popular Science’s, “Out of the wild”. While both pieces of work address the topic of the worldwide spreading of dangerous viruses in today’s society, each brings up individual arguments explaining scientific research completed behind such viruses and what role such research should play in delivering such information to the public. These works also give informative, detailed observations and data which provides the reader an opportunity to create his own opinion on such important current events. These findings are provided which gives a form of validity to each claim made in these two pieces of work, however bias and a lack of testable, reproducible data create holes that leave the reader 's imagination and personal morals to determine their own point of view.

Margaret Chan once said, "after all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.” One’s complete humanity is irreparably changed by a pandemic. Throughout time, from the Middle Ages, to the Modern Era, mankind has been plagued with pandemics. In the time of the Middle Ages, from 1328-1351, the infamous pandemic was The Bubonic Plague, otherwise known as The Black Death, which claimed 200 million lives in Europe and 35 million in China.1 The Zika virus is a current pandemic most prominently found in Central and South America that causes birth defects.2 The Ebola virus is a pandemic found predominantly in West Africa that has claimed the lives of thousands.3 The causes and effects of pandemics over time have changed very

Plague is one of history’s greatest killers. It had killed hundreds of deaths. Scientists found out it began thousands of years earlier than we though. It is spread by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis. It normally found in rodents such as mice, and rats. Plague divide into three types such as the Bubonic plague, septicemic plague and pneumonic plague. And finally, the symptoms of the plague include fever and headache.

In the previous one hundred years, the development of nations in the areas of sanitation and public health have drastically re-shaped the human environment and its response to disease. Westernization has led to the systemic decontamination of public water sources and food supplies, as well as encouraged a shift from agrarian societies to infrastructure promoting industrialized economies. Accompanying industrialization, the battle against infections disease began to see overwhelming victories with the discovery and implementation of penicillin and subsequent antibiotics. Undoubtedly these advances have contributed to increased prosperity and life-spans of people living in these developed nation. However, it is debated whether the progression of the human species towards more synthetic environments has come at a cost.

Disease has ravaged the Earth for millions, if not billions, of years. It has existed since the formation of multicellular organisms on the Earth. Disease arises in many different forms, including parasitic, mutational, viral, bacterial, and countless more. All life on planet Earth is susceptible to infection of a disease. Part of what makes numerous diseases extraordinarily dangerous is the copious number of methods transmission can occur. Diseases can become airborne, transmitted through consumed sustenance, inherited from previous generations, and various diseases can spontaneously appear out of thin air. New forms of disease are being generated all the time. A major disease devastating boreal forests across the North American continent is White Nose Syndrome.

When dangerous diseases like Ebola and the Zika virus infect large populations of people and becomes a threat to public health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) takes the lead in responding to them. Microbes that fall into the highest level of containment – Biosafety Levels (BSL) three and four – are easily transmissible in the air with little or no treatment available (CDC, “Recognizing Biosafety Levels”). To fight against such threats, the CDC conducts critical research to “track and find what is making people sick and the most effective ways to prevent it” (CDC, “Mission, Role, and Pledge”).

Throughout the history of civilization, there has been one common factor that has ravaged populations and instilled mass panic. This factor is infectious disease. Infectious diseases, according to the Mayo Clinic, are “disorders caused by organisms — such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites” (Diseases and conditions, 2014). These organisms are contagious, meaning that they can be passed on from human to human. This can happen through direct or indirect contact. Indirect contact includes touching things that the pathogen is on, such as door handles and elevator buttons. The ability of these diseases to harm more than their current host is what makes them infectious. Infectious diseases like Bubonic Plague, Spanish Flu, and AIDS have ravaged

There were many connections between the novel and the real world. It was because the novel was talking about the history and about Charlotte’s life and how she felt. One of the connection was between the flu and Ebola. This was the world connection. Ebola was spreading around really quickly around Africa and there is no cure for it. Ebola was also spread by contact. It was the same as the flu that told in the novel. Both of them spread really quickly and there was no cure. The flu shown deadly when Doctor Barnes said, ‘I just went to a house where a father dead, the mother was stricken and there are four children to take care of.’ This shown that the flu was killing many people. In the real world, many people dead, especially people in Africa

Considering this to remain conventional wisdom, the global population continues to grow exponentially. As a result, the availability of safe food sources remain scarce in numerous parts of the world. Furthermore, nations around the world remain adversely affected by foodborne illnesses such as Ebola and Listeria. For those unaware, Ebola remains a deadly virus founded in the 1970s. However, the virus made a resurgence in 2014 when it claimed the lives of thousands of people in West Africa. Although the virus has remained contained, the lingering effects of the disease remain at large.

Since the beginning of civilization, humanity has battled with the forces of nature in order to survive. One of the most terrifying of these forces is disease. Diseases can come in many different forms. They are caused by many things, such as viruses, bacteria, and some are even non-infectious and can be transmitted genetically. A select few of these ailments, called pandemics, are highly contagious and can afflict mass amounts of people in a short period of time. One example of a pandemic is the Black Death. It swept through Europe in the 14th century, killing an estimated 75 million people and causing the collapse of the Feudal system. The Black Death is considered one of the deadliest pandemics in history because of the speed of its

Through found research, there is a vast amount of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microorganisms that occur naturally and man-made. These biological agents have the potential to negatively affect the human body, varying from mild reaction, to even death. While each individual organism is wide-spread throughout our globe, they can be traced back to water, soil, plants, and animals. Biological agents should be treated as potential threats due to the rapid reproduction and minimal required resources to sustain life.

While antibiotics and vaccines have numerous well-known benefits associated with prevention and recovery, what unfamiliar beneficial effects do they contribute to society? When it comes to the topic of antibiotic and vaccine use, most people will readily agree that medical treatment will greatly reduce the chance of getting ill and will improve recovery time. This agreement usually ends, however, on the question: Are antibiotics and vaccines necessary to maintain a healthy society? Whereas some are convinced that the use of antibiotics and vaccines pose a threat to society by inducing antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria and encouraging virus mutation, others maintain that resistance and mutation will occur naturally, and without advances in treatment these natural changes of pathogens are the cause of devastating epidemics.

Human survival is dependent on myriad things, the first of which that come to mind are food, water and shelter. As the world has developed, the abundance of each of these has increased dramatically, especially in the developed world. However, along with this growing population and resource web has come a growing understanding of disease, and its impacts on the more-developed and less-developed parts of the world. Another effect of growing population is the concerning truth of climate change: changes in climate not only alter the environment, but can alter the range and distribution of diseases. Moreover, human population leads inherently to social networks and systems that can have significant impact on development and the spread of disease. These impacts can manifest as civil strife, or simply the unavoidable reality of proximity within a community. Lea Berrang-Ford, an Associate Professor at McGill University, has conducted numerous studies over the past approximately fifteen years that blend together the complex aspects of disease spread in general, choosing to focus mostly on African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness”, and how climatic and social pressures affect the spread of disease. Her work also extends beyond her own research, into her classroom, and through her students, out into the world.