Pandemic Studios

Globalization has introduced a dramatic increase in the movement of people, food, and manufactured goods. However, these increases have also lead to the exposure and spread of infectious diseases, negatively impacting the quality of global public health. While theoretically reducing this movement could reduce the spread of infectious diseases, there are many options that can be taken into consideration. Before we can begin to explore solutions to control the spread of infectious disease, we must

Total egg exports are down 9 percent from the same period a year earlier; 145.13 million dozen eggs, which includes both table eggs and egg products, were exported from this year’s period in comparison to the 164 million exported a year earlier. “The impact of lost exports alone reached nearly 390 million during the first half of 2015,” reports the USA Poultry and Egg Export Council; in what the article describes as “precise terms”, the combined value of US poultry and egg exports for the first half

Prevention The prevention of cholera can be achieved through clean, uncontaminated water supplies and good sanitation. The sea food needs to be well cooked before consumption. Breast feeding the babies can prevent cholera infection in infants. When surface water is used in endemic areas, filtering through even a saree cloth can lessen the transmission of infection. The travelers should avoid tap water in endemic countries and should drink bottled water. They also should avoid eating raw vegetables

Introduction Diseases affect every individual. They could have a disease themselves, may know someone or of someone that has one, or the country where they live could have have faced a disease epidemic. Epidemics, which we have studied in our course, analyze how diseases spread and how outbreaks affect countless individuals in countless different countries. This topic relates directly to course material as it encompasses many of the situations and ideas that have been discussed such as, poverty

The Decimating Effects of Infectious Disease in the New World "It is often said that in the centuries after Columbus landed in the New World on 12 October, 1492, more native North Americans died each year from infectious diseases brought by the European settlers than were born." (6) The decimation of people indigenous to the Americas by diseases introduced by European invaders is unprecedented. While it is difficult to accurately determine the population of the pre-Columbian Americas

and provide a secure outcome. To establish control of influenza pandemic it remains essential to determine the extent of a possible situation. Only sustained planning, training and exercise of contingency operations across public, private and volunteer sectors will help to reduce the potential of a catastrophic pandemic disaster (NJDHSS, 2008). With thousands of lives at risk the plan to reduce an incidence of influenza pandemic maintains stages governed by a federal and state plan. The plan includes

A Catastrophe of Pandemic Proportions   A Catastrophe of Pandemic Proportions It is the year 2018. The future that once looked bright is now filled with devastation. Two years ago a small pox epidemic swept through the United States in the worst act of terrorism we have ever seen. Due to the belief small pox was gone for good, children were no longer vaccinated. If only we knew the enemy was manufacturing this virus as a lethal weapon to be unleashed in the United States. I do not

In the novel Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, the story revolves around the theme of cause and effect. One person's actions affects the future of all the other characters in this novel whether directly or indirectly. The story goes back and forth in time revolving around the occurrence of the Georgia Flu serving as a block between the world in peace and the post apocalyptic wasteland. The reader sees the characters’ lives before the Georgia Flu and transformed after it wipes out humanity

Traditional Chinese Medicine has been used for years to treat epidemics and outbreaks (Hanson, 2010, p.232), therefore the SARS epidemic and smallpox are treatable with traditional Chinese Medicine. China has a history of managing epidemics and simply put, China is very capable of treating SARs and smallpox. Traditional Chinese medicine is essentially a religious and cultural medical system since it has been around for a plethora of years and has strong discernable religious pillars and ideology

The Black Death was one of the largest epidemics the world had ever seen, having wiped out mass amounts of people the plague came to completely shift European medieval society into the modern era. The black death showed no regard as to who it affected, it affected rich and poor, man, women and children all the same. The plague was so widespread among Europe that death was increasingly frequent. Such an epidemic caused people to have a completely new idea of life and death. In this essay I intend