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    The 1918 Influenza Epidemic Essay

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    ears while others coughed it up. Many of the soldiers, boys in their teens, men in their twenties – healthy, normally ruddy men – were turning blue (Barry, 2004, p. 189).” Something had happened to take the ordinary, relatively benevolent seasonal flu and turn it into a killer. Of all the present theories to account for this remarkable transformation the most credible is that of viral adaptation (Barry, 2004). This theory states that when moving between species a virus is briefly less efficient

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    1918 Spanish Flu It was the year 1918, Many people were fighting viciously in the World War fighting for what each side had believed was true and fair. Both the allied and the axis powers were butting heads across Europe, Asia and Africa. As the war was coming to an end a massive 16 million lives were taken from the war-torn events that had taken place. While the war effort was in full force both domestically and internationally, A secret war was brewing under the surface becoming the underlying

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    The Spanish Flu Virus

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    But, as fall and winter set in, the disease could not be ignored anymore. The name of it came from early and big mortality rates in Spain. The Spanish Flu is a virus that appeared in World War I which helped spread the virus, presented with symptoms of a hyper-flu, and was treated through vaccination and isolation. The cause of the Spanish Flu has never been determined for sure. Some believe it started on March 11, 1918. A soldier at Fort Riley, Kans., went in sick to the infirmary. Soon enough

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    potentially affect the success of the company in a negative manner. WestJet is either currently or has previously encountered the following threats. H1N1 Flu Virus: The threat and the spread of the Swine Flu virus and other viruses has had a negative effect on the airline and travel industry in general. With the recent fear of the H1N1 flu virus, many potential clients of the airline have been hesitant to travel, not only to Mexico where the virus seems to have originated from, but also negatively

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    Are we prepared for the return of a killer flu? What is a pandemic? Unlike the flu that goes around annually, pandemic flu is much different. A pandemic of influenza (flu) occurs when a new flu virus that is foreign to our bodies spreads around the world, causing serious illness and possibly death. It is highly contagious and can therefore spread easily from one person to another, infecting an entire community in a matter of days. In the past 100 years, we have seen four pandemics—1918, 1957, 1968

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    rapidly mutating viral strains. It characterized by the respiratory symptoms and general prostration. The Spanish flu was not a normal epidemic, it was a dangerous pandemic. Epidemics affect individuals at the same time in areas where the disease does not normally spread. A pandemic is an epidemic on a national, international, or global scale. The Spanish flu was different from a usual flu in one big great terrifying way, which had a remarkably high death rate between healthy individuals around the

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    Developed countries- In developed countries the technology and doctors are good enough to produce and prescribe drugs to the right people and are able to treat everyone affected, weheras in LED countries some people will be treated whilst others won't due to there not being enough resource to treat everyone. Less economically developed countries- Multiple sclerosis is a serious condition that affects the brain and the spinal cord. However, in different locations this disease will have different

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    Swine flu is presumptively diagnosed clinically by the patient's history of association with people known to have the disease and their symptoms listed above. Usually, a quick test (for example, nasopharyngeal swab sample) is done to see if the patient is infected with influenza A or B virus. Most of the tests can distinguish between A and B types. The test can be negative (no flu infection) or positive for type A and B. If the test is positive for type B, the flu is not likely to be swine flu. If

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    Colorado Tragedy Essay

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    because of bullets and cannons. Diseases plagued the war and they weren’t only contained in the trenches. Soldiers were bringing diseases to the home front that were both infectious and mental. Sicknesses like typhoid fever, alcoholism, and the Spanish flu, that plagued the country, with Colorado being no exception. We will take a closer look at these main diseases, considering how some of them came about and what happened to the bodies that hosted them. Finally, we will dive into how it affected Colorado

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    the flu, although I will also be talking about this one girl I stumbled upon on the internet also. She had a life threatening experience that you can definitely experience if you go untreated when finding out that you have E. Coli. She had it for 19 days straight when I had been extremely lucky that I had only had it for eight days. I know that I definitely did not feel lucky, but doing this project has let me realize that I was very fortunate. Some people just chalk it up as the stomach flu like

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