Influenza Pandemic Feedback

In two years between 1918 and 1919, A pandemic of influenza swept mercilessly over the planet, killing millions which stood in its path. Miraculously, the exact origin of the pandemic is unclear. What is exceedingly clear, however, is that often the actions of man aided in the spread of the virus, whether due to inadvertent endangerment, close quarters, religious principles, or failure to recognize the true threat that influenza posed.

Throughout the history, influenza viruses have caused several pandemics or global epidemics, killing many people. For example, the influenza strike in 1918 to 1919 infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, which is one-third of the planet’s population at the time and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million people. More than 25 percentage of the U.S. population were affected, and caused 675,000 deaths in U.S during the pandemic.(History, 2015). There were no effective treatments for this type of influenza and no available vaccines can prevent its spread during the period. (History, 2015) U.S government required general population to wear masks and other protective equipments in public areas, and many public places also closed due to the influenza strike. Health care providers tried everything they knew to save people, but none shows any evidence of effects. (National Center for Biotechnology Information [NCBI], 2015). Scientists found out that the influenza virus had invaded their lungs and caused pneumonia, which made so many people died from the pandemic (History,2015). Another influenza strike happened

Health care governments have endorsed an assortment of vaccination policies and mediations to safeguard against the known dangers of influenza communication, with longer patient stays, absenteeism, intermissions in health care, and death. Studies assessing the consequence of health care workers vaccination found that health care workers influenza vaccination was linked with a decrease in patient death (Murana, 2014). Assessing the results of health care worker influenza vaccination on patient results anticipated that if all health care workers were vaccinated, patient influenza infections could be stopped.

Dr. Sharon Moalem has conquered the scientific arts of diseases, neurogenetics, and biotechnology. In ‘Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity’ Moalem shares with us the importance of biological change and relationship between lifeforms of all sizes as he unravels the astounding connections between evolution, disease, and human health.. Moalem attempts to tackle the questions that drive the biological world’s exploration of evolutionary disease. Is the human relationship with disease not a simple case of parasitism, but a that of commensalism or as far as mutualism? Does the way the scientific community view desease change our knowledge of history and evolution? Could disease itself be what fuels change in not only our past but our future? In Moalem efforts to

In the book, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, John Barry discusses the 1918 influenza pandemic. In the prologue, Paul Lewis, a physician who spent most of his time in the laboratory, was introduced. He had encountered the disease only once, but he had seen the devastating affects it had on the human body and this was enough impetus for him to try to end this virus. After the prologue, Barry shifts the topic to medicine in America (this was my favorite part of the book). Admission into medical school wasn’t based on academic scholarship or merit; instead, it was based on whether the applicant could pay the tuition. So William Henry Welch established the John Hopkins School of Medicine, a school that would

Some researchers estimate that 15-20% of people in the US suffer from some sort of mental illness. One of the top listed is depression. Depression is defined by feelings of sadness or apathy that last at least 2 consecutive weeks and is severe enough to interrupt daily activities. A person treated or untreated can put a large amount of stress on a nurse and/or medical staff. Patients with this have frequent outburst of anger, irritability, and lack of energy to help themselves putting more physical strain on the ones around them.

Claudia is a twenty year old junior currently attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. About a week ago Claudia went to the health clinic on campus to be checked out. She has been feeling ill with flu like symptoms including headache, fever, achy all over and being tired. She also disclosed that she has been treating a yeast infection with Monistat, an over-the-counter anti-viral cream with no relief. After answering some common questions asked by the doctor, such as “are you sexually active” and “how many partners have you had,” the doctor decided Claudia should be tested for a few sexually transmitted infections in addition to being tested for the flu. Test results were negative for everything except HIV. Devastated with the news

Each winter season brings the horrid infectious disease, influenza also commonly known as “the flu.” Just in the past week, over 250 cases of positive specimens were gathered with it being the highest week in the year of 2017. Influenza has already been in full force this winter, with many people around Australia falling ill. Everyone in their lifetime suffers from the nasty flu as sometime in their life, but for some, it’s a critical and complicated disease. In the selected years of 2006, 2010 and 2015, influenza was one of the leading causes of death. Influenza and pneumonia are at rank 12, with 2015 having at least 3,402 deaths, more than breast cancer. “There has been a total of 12, 360 laboratories confirmed notifications of influenza

Throughout history, plagues have been feared and dreaded. As we have had scientific advancements and we attempt to control the impact of viruses on humanity we find that they continue to evolve with us. We are constantly trying to stay ahead of the next illness. The Center for Disease Control states that, “an epidemic refers to an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that population in that area” (Lesson 1). An epidemic turns into a pandemic when the epidemic travels into several different countries, usually impacting a larger number of people (Lesson 1). Epidemics have always been around, but now with vaccines people tend to not worry about them. As a country we need to make sure people

Influenza, or what most people call the “flu”, is a respiratory infection that is an example of an acute emerging infectious disease. Influenza is caused by the influenza virus, which is a negative sense single stranded RNA virus and is a localized infection affecting the respiratory tract. Influenza virus has eight different RNAs in its genome that encode for viral genes. Influenza is prevalent throughout the United States and the world, requiring international surveillance of the virus by the World Health Organization (WHO). The influenza virus infects 5 to 10% of the United States population every year.

A general practitioner could not be qualified as an expert because this person does not have any specialized knowledge of the Influenza virus. The professor, who wrote a paper on the long term effects of the virus can be considered an expert because the vaccination is claimed to have made the flu duration "longer and worse". Also, if the flu is long term, it has a longer period to be transmitted to other people, contributing to the spread of the flu. The epidemiologist investigates patterns of disease, so this person is obviously an expert. The public health Ph.D recipient studies the spread of influenza making him an expert as well.

To tell you truth my paper feedback was not so helpful. Whoever looked my paper pointed out some of my grammar errors but nothing more than that. There is no helpful comment or positive negative words or any constructive idea or thoughts. I guess my paper make sense then. You haven’t comment on our paper yet so I have no idea where I have to improve. Final paper is not due until next week so if you are still planning to give some feedback, that would be great. I can still modify my paper and submit the perfect one like you want to see in any paper.

First of all, I would like to thank you for the interview. As you know, one of my main interests is to bring my extensive teaching and research experience from the advanced institutes of learning to CDC. My experience to work with HIV-1 pathogenesis at Emory University is a plus to work with influenza virus. Also, your research program complements with my research strength. My impression was of a strong program with a group of people that enjoy working with each other in an environment of camaraderie and teamwork. As we discussed during my interview, the search of a better way to prevent influenza infection is to study the mechanism of pathogenesis of infection and a lot of work yet to be done and the willingness that you and your colleagues

The feedback helps me work toward others’ expectations of my writing is every feedback I got. Since all of them are suggestions given by others who intend to help me with my writing, specially for the Project 1, I will take every points in their comment seriously and try very hard to improve my writing. In this way, I will be able to really learned something from this project.

This purpose of this essay to illustrate the reflection during the influenza outbreak in 2017. I am one of the specialist in Emergency doctor whom work in one of the AED in public hospital. In this influenza outbreak in summer 2017, it is over workload in daily duty. Compare to the normal day, I work around 10 hours per shift and right now I must work around 16 hours per shift. This is our manager requested when the flu outbreak started graver. Over the summer flu outbreak, I need to handle more than 300-250 patients per day included flu symptoms patients and critical patients. By the way, my colleagues who also a specialist in emergency also sick leave because of influenza. My emergency team reduced from ten