Why Didn't Noah Swat those Two Mosquitoes

Summary: The yellow fever outbreak that took place in Africa this past year was a hidden disaster which exposed the flaws in the emergency vaccine supply. The epidemic essentially exposed a race between the mosquitos that spread yellow fever and the vaccines that protect people against yellow fever. Early in December 2015 in Africa, the first few deaths by yellow fever were misdiagnosed as merely food poisoning. As soon as the true culprit was exposed, emergency stockpiles of vaccines were exhausted before a small region was protected. However, the outbreak was mitigated due to the help of a colossal vaccine campaign that stretched the supplies by diluting vaccine doses all thanks to special donors such as Brazil and South Sudan. This outbreak barely got any coverage or attention due to the focus being on the Zika Virus epidemic. The yellow fever virus reached Asia via workers who worked in Africa; if the virus got a base in Asia, it would have been very traumatic. The virus was spreading to major

Ex: Many people in Texas had malaria as well as Dengue Fever due to their large mosquito population.

This disease can kill someone and mosquitoes are the ones that carry it. Lots and lots of people were getting it, but George said that if we don’t think about it that maybe, just maybe, nobody in our family will get it. We know that there is always a chance, but we can always hope for the best.

Yesterday I got bit by a mosquito and left a red bump on my skin while I was in Brazil. 4 Day later I was starting to have headaches, fatigue, fever, and vomiting. I went to the clinic to see what was causing this. They took a blood sample and told me, that they would call me back once testing was finished. A few day later they had called me to come back to the clinic, and told me that I had the West Nile Virus.(General Questions About West Nile Virus | West Nile Virus …)

Mosquitos are the main transmitter of this virus. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), pigs and birds are also part of the transmission cycle, which increases the risk of infection to people living near these animals. According to WHO, there are twenty-four countries that have a risk of infection, particularly in the South-East region of Asia and the Western Pacific.

West Nile virus is the most significant exotic mosquito-borne disease that has come to the contiguous United States in the last century. Outbreaks have proven extremely difficult to predict and control and have been associated with considerable morbidity. The large outbreak in 2012, which caught many by surprise, indicates that West Nile virus will remain a formidable public health challenge for years to come (“FAQ: West Nile Virus,” par. 3).

Yellow fever is a disease caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes. It is a disease that is mostly found in tropical areas like South America and Africa (Cutter 2016). While scientific inquiry was certainly one of the main reasons that yellow fever became one of the first viruses that we were able to eradicate, it was not the only driving force. A biosocial approach to dissecting global health issues not only takes into account all the biological aspects that come into play, but also how society, history, culture and the political economy impact these global diseases (Farmer et al. 2013). This approach allows for a multidimensional analysis that gives more insight than any biological or clinical study ever could. By looking at yellow fever from a biosocial approach you can see how the Panama Canal played a major role in the discovery of it

Lyme disease is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in the United States (1). Lyme disease is caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted via the bite of an infected Ixodes

February 1, 2016 the World Health announced a PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern) that declared the Zika virus was a global health emergency. Brazil being the most affected country in the world right now has cases where pregnant women with the virus have given birth to children with smaller heads causing their brains to not develop correctly.The Zika virus is a flavivirus (Karimi) that is related to the common dengue virus and West Nile disease. A flavivirus is a group of RNA (a ribonucleic acid), that are mostly carried by mosquitoes, flies, fleas, etc. The virus carried causes severe human diseases, that are most commonly related to the Dengue and West Nile disease. The disease

In this paper I have discussed the vector borne disease of Lyme disease, and the zoonotic disease of Rabies. Both of these diseases are preventable and treatable but they do present public health hazards. Climate change is adversely impacting environments and humans are now living closer than ever to the boundaries of these diseases. In fact, in greater densely populated areas more and more individuals are coming into contact with such diseases. Prevention requires resources which many developing countries are lacking which leads to inadequate treatment for those whom are

Throughout history, humankind has been exposed to millions of unique and troubling pathogens. Some of these pathogens are well known, such as the bubonic plague, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS, but others are relatively unknown and remain shrouded in mystery. One such example has been spreading to become the most common vector-borne disease that occurs in the Northern Hemisphere, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This “hidden pandemic”, known as Lyme disease, is silently infecting hundreds of thousands of United States citizens each year, and numbers of new and untreated infections continue to climb as traditional treatments fail and doctors misdiagnose the condition. Spread by tick bites, Lyme disease has affected many lives and continues to infect countless individuals each and every day.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says as many as 4 million people could be infected in the next year in America. Subsequently, “On January 27th, Brazilian health officials reported a total of 4,180 cases since October 2015, and 287 more cases more cases a week earlier.” (Rosen 16). Health officials take a lot of time investigating many cases that have appeared in more than 20 countries, including the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The amount is rising more and more. In addition, the only places that were recorded to not receive the mosquito-borne virus were Canada and Chile, because of their lack of a large mosquito population. However, what does that mean for the

In 2012, Texas encountered the largest outbreak of the virus with 1868 cases reported. During that year, the mosquito population increased drastically. This was because there were higher temperatures and fluctuations between rainfall and drought which provided ideal conditions for mosquitoes to reproduce. The drought conditions reduced water flow and created stagnant water

Zika- We've all heard about it on the evening news, on the radio, or read about it in the newspaper. Unless you are the owner of a mosquito repellent company, it isn't exactly good news.

Reading Noah’s story from the Bible and Qur’an shows the readers that are many similarities that come up between them. They both start off with a world that has turned wicked. God in both of the texts tells Noah to construct an Ark and to make sure a pair of every animal and his family is on the Ark. When the Ark was completed and all the creatures and his family were inside, the rain came for many days. In both texts, they described that the flood covered over the highest mountains and wiping out all of civilization and all of the creatures that roamed the Earth. When the rain stopped and the flood started to dry up, Noah from the Bible and the Qur’an waited patiently in the Ark, until his boat was placed on a mountain side and he was commanded