Mononucleosis Research Paper

The website Flu.gov says that “historically, the 20th century saw 3 pandemics of influenza, and the 21st has experienced 1 flu pandemic.”

According to the book ¨An American Plague¨, At first no one realized that there was a sickness going around because it started on one street that was more of a street. They first doctor to notice this sickness was Dr.Hugh Hodge. He was a very respected doctor and he decided that the sickness was thought to be forgotten a plague called the yellow fever. The people were terrified when it was announced to the public, because there was no cure. The last time a civilization dealt with this fever it nearly killed 50% of their population.

The same time of the gay culture boom the disease started also known as GRID (gay related immune deficiency dubbed by the media). The CDC curious

People had little knowledge of germs and bacteria, and that there are trillions of these microscopic invaders everywhere you go. Therefore many people took little effort in keeping good hygiene and awareness of transmissible distances between people. The close contact of people made the spread of the virus effortless. People soon began

Martha Quezada Kimmons AP World History March 05, 2018 The Influenza (DBQ) In 1918 a new and unknown virus emerged causing the Influenza pandemic to spread worldwide. It diffused from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. The pandemic lasted until 1919 but its effects were very shocking to the population as it was so deadly it killed more than 50 million people and infected about 20% to 40% of the population.

Infectious epidemics and pandemics have happened all through mankind's history. “They remain the prime cause of death worldwide and will not be conquered during our lifetimes.” The flu of 1918 was one of the deadliest epidemics in history. “It infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide–about one-third of the planet’s population at the time–and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims. More than 25 percent of the U.S. population became sick, and some 675,000 Americans died during the pandemic.” No one knew how the virus spread, there were no antibiotics to fight it, and no flu shots to prevent it. In the final year of World War I, it struck terror in the hearts of people all across Europe and left more death in its wake than the combined military actions of the combatants. “It killed more Americans in a few months than World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the

Towards the end of World War I, a flu epidemic broke out with no cure. It was unique because most of the people who got it weren't the usuals to get sick. It was so deadly because no one knew how to cure it or mainly anyway to help it. The theater in Chicago tried to prevent the sickness from spreading by not allowing anyone who is sick to enter the theater. They wanted you to stay home and get better.

An epidemic occurs when a disease spreads to more people in one area then usually happens. There have been many epidemics in history that have had devastating effects. Two epidemics that occurred right here in the United States were cholera and scarlet fever. From the 1830’s to the 1860’s, cholera spread throughout the United States killing many people. And in the late 1850’s scarlet fever spread throughout the New England area of the United States. For both of these terrible diseases it is not clear what stopped their rapid spread. Today there is a vaccine for cholera but not for scarlet fever. However, there are ways to protect yourself from catching these diseases. New and stronger illnesses seem to be happening all the time and are in the news. However, we still need to be aware of these diseases from the past so we can keep ourselves healthy.

The Bubonic Plague hit Michigan, one person being infected by the disease, but it was assumed that, since he visited an area in the US which gets hit by the plague often, he did not catch it from anyone in Michigan. According to the article, a few other cases in Western and Southwestern states have appeared. However, the disease has only killed two people in the past few years, and is easily repelled with antibiotics and other treatments.

The disease got its name not from the country that it first performed. It is said that the influenza has exterminated more than twenty to forty million people, which is more than World War I. The Spanish flu, in only one year killed more than the Black Death Bubonic Plague did, which lasted for about four years from 1347 to 1351. The disease globally spread and infected anybody and could end up dead. There had to be a way that they could stop it from infecting any more individuals. Therefore, physicians and scientist were trying their best to understand the disease and hopefully prevent it to continue.

The disease spread all through San Francisco and hit Chinatown. This time people were aware of what was happening and they were prepared and knew what caused it. Everyone said it was from being overcrowded because it could spread easier since everyone was so close together. They also thought it was from squalor and desolation. Because of that bacteria and diseases spread. After a while they cleaned up the city hoping it would help stop the disease. The government also used illegal methods to try to cure the disease to stop it from killing so many people. Also when people died they would smuggle the bodies out of the city so the inspector did not see them. They also thought the smell of death also caused the disease (Bubonic

The Spanish influenza had been around for some time. However, it wasn’t until the second wave that people started getting noticeably worse. The skin of its victims would turn a bluish color and their lungs would fill up with fluid, causing them to suffocate. It instantly spread from the U.S., to Europe, and then on to Asia within a couple of months. The victims died after hours or days of their symptoms emerging. It infected about 500 million people worldwide and killed some 30 to 50 million.

the epidemic, about 34 million people were infected. In the year 2001 alone, there were

The world has experienced a total of four pandemics in the twentieth century starting in 1918 until present. In 1918, the spanish flu caught worldwide attention when it infected close to half the population of the world, claiming more than 40 million lives. What made the spanish flu capable of infecting over a billion people was the ability to quickly transfer from person to person. At the time, world war 1 was happening and the mass activation and recruitment of troops to fight made the spread of the flu easy.

In Sweden, where I live, the disease is not even seen as deadly anymore. Only approximately 6,500 Swedes are today infected