Epidemics And Pandemics

The Black Death, a horrible pandemic plague that spread through all of Europe, taking 25,000,000 people along with it. In 1347, a mysterious pandemic appeared in the city-states of Italy just as Europe was recovering from famine. The Epidemic did not end until 1351 partly due to the belief of the people that this plague was spread through the air and was gods way of punishing them for their sins. Although this plague killed many people, its effects led life to the way it is today. The three most important effects of the Black Death on Western Europe were the changing relationships between people and the church, the People beginning to express their faith and

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mission is to collaborate to create information and tools for people and communities to protect themselves through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and the preparedness for new health threats The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seeks to accomplish its mission by working with partners throughout the nation and the world to monitor health, detect and investigates health problems, conduct research to enhance prevention, develop and advocate sound public health policies, implement prevention strategies, promote health behaviors, foster safe and healthful environments, and provide leadership training. In order for the Centers for Disease to achieve their mission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relies on external partners including public health association, state and local public health agencies, schools and universities, and volunteer organizations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a created a set of four health protection goals. The goals are all people especially those at a greater risk of health disparities will achieve their optimal life span, the place where people live, work, learn, and play will protect and promote their health and safety, people in all communities will be protected from infectious, occupational environmental, and terrorist threats, and people around the world will

In August of last year, an adult in Pueblo County, Colorado succumbed to the bubonic plague. The Health Department did not specify who it was, just saying that it was an adult. This was the first case of someone contracting the plague in Pueblo County since 2004. It is thought that the person caught the disease from fleas on a dead animal. According to the CDC, about seven people every year contract the plague in the United States.

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The third and final wave of this lethal killer came in the spring of 1919. Although this mutation was less deadly than its predecessor, it still devastated communities as it continued to add to the death toll. This outbreak was responsible for taking away ten years from the average life expectancy of a person, kept people in a constant panic, and “In its wake, the pandemic would leave about twenty million dead across the world. In America alone, about 675,000 people in a population of 105 million would die from the disease.3” Governments and private organizations both scrambled to find a cure and in 1918 they believed they might have found the source of the virus to be a bacteria rather than a virus. They operated under that assumption until

The ability to contribute to designing prevention and control strategies to prevent endemic or epidemic transmission in the United States was intriguing. As a NACCHO Policy Scholar with the Infectious Disease department, I was thrilled to work on two exciting public health projects; the Flu Near You and HIV/AIDS Policy Initiative Project. Both projects are in line with my areas of interest as a Public health practitioner and included a review of evidenced based literature to understand effective strategies and interventions that could be adopted in these projects.

The Black Death was one of the biggest epidemics in the world that caused more than 75 to 200 millions deaths world wide. The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30 to 60% of Europe's total population. This may have reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million in the 14th century. What is the Plague and how is it caused? The Bubonic plague is a caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis that is commonly found in rats that carry the bacteria. When the rats dies fleas come to feed on the rats then jump onto humans infecting them with this disease. The human effected will start to develop buboes, large egg or apple sized tumor looking sacs that ooze pus and blood when cut open. It is said that the Black Death takes up to three stages

This paper focuses on describing the BSPH interdisciplinary and cross-cutting competencies that comprises the frameworks of public health, communication in public health practices, diversity and culture, and professionalism. The frameworks of public health practices focuses on the prevention of diseases and the health of the various communities. Public health officials seek to conduct research to enhance prevention. Officials also focus on investigating the public health problem that allows them to detect and control infectious diseases that may affect the health of a population. Investigating the problems may also aid in determining the magnitude, scope, and the characteristics of a public health threat. Planning, implementing, and

All our speakers have focused on topics that did not encompass the stereotypical view on public health (e.g., the CDC monitoring the flu or Ebola). The speakers demonstrated that public health involves a variety of topics such as modeling (Dr. Welsh), workers’ health (Dr. Chosewood), crisis communication (Mr. Wuichet), and health literacy (Dr. Parker). Public health encompasses different angles of people’s lives and not just merely in times of outbreaks.

In the first proposition, Omran argues that the mortality is the primary factor in population dynamics. The second proposition states that a long-term shift occurs in mortality and disease patterns by which pandemics of infectious diseases are gradually shifted from degenerative and man-made diseases: making these diseases the main causes of death (Mckeown, 2009). Originally, Omran wrote the second proposition which included three transitions called, “The Age of Pestilence and Famine” (mortality rates are high with average life expectancy being low), “The Age of Receding Pandemics” (epidemics occur less often causing mortality rates to decline), and the “Age of Degenerative and Man-Made Diseases” (NCDs replace infectious diseases and life

The third consequence of the black death pandemic was the diminished authority and importance of the church to 14th-century society.Prior to the 14th-century pandemic outburst of the black plague, the Catholic church community was the overpowering religion in Europe.A great amount of the population in Europe maintained and believed in the Catholic church is what they lived their lives by.In the Catholic church 1 out of 10 people belonged to the clergy which was priest readers and writers usually.During the pandemic, the thought of God punishing the people of the Earth from their sins was strongly believed in and was the primary factor towards the creation of a Flagellant.A flagellant is a 14th-century member of the church which goes around

In step two investigators Generate hypothesis by performing descriptive epidemiology and doing hypothesis generating interviews to summarize demographic information. For instance, in the botulism study 100% of males and morning shift worker were affected by the disease and the median age was 42 years. This summary was taken from the demographic information gathered. Clinical information gathered revealed that 100 percent of infected people had drooping eyes, 78 percent had blurred vision, 44 percent had double vision, 44 percent had upper extremity weakness and respiratory difficulty and 33 had lower extremity weakness. With this information, an epidemic curve can be constructed showing the incubation period and the distribution of botulism

Why have the citizens of the United States never heard about a plan as to what would happen if there was a pandemic occurring in the U.S.? This may either be due to the fact that there is more than one plan in place by multiple government agencies such as the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Governors Association (NGA) or the United States has not recently gone through a pandemic with a high mortality rate. The difference between a pandemic and an epidemic is that an epidemic is a disease or virus that spreads through a certain area in a country while a pandemic is a disease or virus that spreads through more than one country. In the last fifty years, there have been many different pandemics present in the U.S.

The world has experienced a total of four pandemics within the twentieth century. These pandemics, as horrific and deadly as they are, have brought so much more positive advances to our health care system and how we prepare for biological threats. Although we are in the twenty-first century and we have advanced so far in healthcare, there is still the possibility of a deadly pandemic.

Of the many diseases spread by insects, none are actually caused by the insects themselves but by other organisms passed on when they feed or bite. Insects are capable of spreading diseases caused by many different types of microorganisms including bacteria, viruses, protozoan and others. Mosquitoes have earned the title of "the most deadly creature on earth." This is due to the fact that they spread serious epidemic diseases such as Malaria, Yellow Fever, African Sleeping Sickness, and West Nile Virus.