Human flu

December, one would take notice of coffins lining the sidewalks. Nobody was on the streets, and dead bodies were stuffed into every available space. The Flu Epidemic of 1918 not only was the most devastating event of the twentieth century, but propelled the United States to search for a vaccine that has not yet been found, causing concern that the flu will strike again.      Influenza has been around almost as long as people have walked the earth. Its roots draw back as far

also brings humans together. It has a preserve yet delicious binding quality. It's for this reason that we love to spread fearful rumors, sometimes blowing them out of all proportion just to heighten the sense of danger." (33. Brandwashed) Zoom In: In this passage, Martin Lindstrom denotes a method used by big corporations and advertising companies that literally scares people into buying things. Lindstrom explains that "uniting us against a common enemy, fear also brings humans together",

GREAT INFLUENZA The book The Great Influenza by John Barry takes us back to arguably one of the greatest medical disasters in human history, the book focuses on the influenza pandemic which took place in the year 1918. The world was at war in the First World War and with everyone preoccupied with happenings in Europe and winning the war, the influenza pandemic struck when the human race was least ready and most distracted by happenings all over the world. In total the influenza pandemic killed over a

In this chapter he talks about the swine flu ‘epidemics’ of the late seventies and of 2009 serve as an example of how extrapolation can lead to improper predictions, particularly if you assume that things will keep proceeding as they have in the recent past. It notes that self-fulfilling and self-canceling

Swine flu is just one example from hundreds of other virus that where cured thank to animal experiments, such as HIV/AIDS we still don’t have the cure for it, but it became a persisting disease due to studies that have to do with animal models. They are still

science dealing with the protection and improvement of community health by organized community effort and including preventive medicine and sanitary and social science” (Merriam-Webster). Throughout recent history, factors that have seriously threatened human safety whether it be disease, genocide, pollutants, or plague, have been identified as public health concerns by various governments and organizations. These situations are remedied by creating a solution to correct the source of the problem. For example

to no regard for animal or human welfare, the environment, or food safety. CAFOs in the United States are able to produce and process these large amounts of meat year-round by providing sheltered farms for a range of livestock such as cattle, swine, and sheep. However, within these farms animals are

“It killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. – John Barry Many historians call the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 the deadliest disease outbreak of all time. As many as 100 million people were killed as a direct result of this disease (Taubenberger 1). The Great Pandemic affected everyone, the prosperous and the poor, developed and underdeveloped nations. Entire villages in Alaska were wiped out

the Centers for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), a study done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Policy (CDC) on the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak reveals the global death toll to be 284,000 (Roos R, 2014) Although this statistic may not seem as significant to the current AID/HIV pandemic, the lethality of the Swine Flu is far greater, and so is Ebola with a 50% survival rate and an estimated 14 day life expectancy once symptoms onset according to the CDC. Stricter

correct instructions and education about the epidemic, so the public who is unprepared for the disease can follow proper instructions to succeed in protecting themselves and others. However, in 1918, when government guided the public to defeat Spanish Flu, they met a lot of difficulty in controlling the urban masses, other than in taking effective preventive measures. Individuals were reluctant to follow some public health policies because their life was intervened and they lost their income. Although