colonists arrived in the New World. The disease caused an instant increase in the mortality rate amongst the natives. Before the Europeans came to the New World, there were no severe sicknesses within the tribes. When the Europeans arrived on the boat, the natives did not know what to expect. They were awed by European horses and technology, which native religion deemed to have been given the whites by the gods. Before colonists arrived, the natives had diseases but none as serve as the one that they
where you think there is no water. But some water is not good. Some water has bacteria that can make you sick if you drink it too much. If there were clean water everywhere, it would decrease the amount of diseases and sickness. According to scientists, the number of people dying from sicknesses would decrease by 88%. Scientists have also said that clean drinking water would prevent 3 million deaths worldwide. The cost of good filtration systems is one problem that causes bad drinking water. Since
Heart disease is a major epidemic that is destructive and incurable. Every 1 in 4 deaths in America alone are caused by a diseased heart. People who are at risk are smokers, type 2 diabetics, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity or overweight, unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity, and genetics. Some examples of heart diseases are marfan syndrome (which affects the body’s connective tissues.), cardiomegaly (which is an enlarged heart due to some other type of heart condition.) and lastly
phenomenal discovery was made as none of the members of the tribes were affected by cancer or have ever contracted heart diseases. According to their study, their native diet was high in both millet and apricot, which continued to keep them healthy. However, when exposed to the food culture and diet of the western world, the tribal members were more susceptible to sicknesses and diseases as the rest of
Pediatrics help children with a lot of things that has to do with their health. They help with sicknesses, diseases, and many other things. One of thoses are measles. Measles is a viral infection that's serious for small children. What measles are when a person has a cough, runny nose, inflamed eyes, sore throat, and a red, blotchy skin rash. It causes a fever making you sick and weak. On top of that, you get very itching from the skin lesion left by the rash.Also
chemicals or pesticides that people spray into their fertilizers or soil that rain pushes into the ground. Another common pollution is the “Chemical water pollution” that is made by industries and farmers. Harmful chemicals are used as solvents to get rid of insects from plants and end up getting wasted into water. In addition, trash and oils are added to the list of different types of pollution. Our society takes the majority of the blame for pollution. We litter or see litter, but don’t pick it
Do you know how many kids a year die from the vaccinations required to go to school? If you knew would you still want to vaccinate your kids? Vaccines are used by doctors to prevent certain diseases and sicknesses in people, to stop spreading, vaccines save lives, but they also take lives. How many kids have serious allergic reactions to these vaccines, and how many kids actually die from them? Why do schools still require vaccines after such serious cases with things like death? Vaccines are something
Do you know how many kids a year die from the vaccinations required to go to school? If you knew would you still want to vaccinate your kids? Vaccines are used by doctors to prevent certain diseases and sicknesses in people, to stop spreading, vaccines save lives, but they also take lives. How many kids have serious allergic reactions to these vaccines, and how many kids actually die from them? Why do schools still require vaccines after such serious cases with things like death? Vaccines are something
entire world’s population, or about one out of five individuals (Peters, ix). To make matters more dire, the ill-suited medical community was exceptionally unprepared for such a wide-scale pandemic: Doctors had very basic tools, knew little about diseases, and had no experience with vaccinations or prevention (Peters, 1-5; “The 1920s: Medicine and Health: Overview”, n.p.). People blindly faced the epidemic, relying on folk remedies such as consuming wine, drinking antiseptic, and
around and see the world around us. What’s going on? Sicknesses, terminal diseases, wars, natural disasters, violence, etc. All of these problems are frustrating because some of us would like to give a hand to the ones that need our help and most of the times it is impossible. We don’t have the physical or economical conditions for helping. This situation is out