Comparing Fever 1793 And An American Plague By Laurie Anderson

When the Fever Epidemic broke out in 1793, George Washington actually fled the city to avoid the fever. Bush Hill was the residence of Alexander Hamilton and a hospital in Fever 1793. There were not many medicines or real medical treatments that were proven to work and cure diseases as well as fevers

Dictionary.com defines a filo virus as “any of several filamentous single stranded RNA viruses.” The Hot Zone is a terrifying true story, by Richard Preston, about the historical stories of Ebola and other viruses such as Marburg and Simian Fever. Richard Preston teaches the reader that nature is unpredictable and that you should always be ready for something new. Dan Dalgard, Gene Johnson, and Nancy Jaax; these are just some of the extraordinary people who have made new breakthroughs in the medical field. Gene Johnson was one of the first discoverers of Ebola and has become an expert on the filo virus.

Your mother is stranded,your town has become a ghost town and pestilence is roaming . In 1793 the state of Philadelphia battled against a deadly enemy,deadly yellow fever . It took the lives of 5,000 citizens . Matilda’s story may have been fiction however for many people this was very real . In the novel “Fever 1793” by Laurie halse Anderson, Matilda finds herself struggling with the fever.

The Hot Zone Reflection In this book The Hot Zone, Richard Preston writes about the deadly Ebola virus that kills 9 out of 10 people. He follows scientist on their investigation to find out the origins of the virus and discover it’s traits, on the journey telling horrifying accidents and misjudgments happening due to the Ebola virus. In The Hot Zone, Preston uses Ebola to explore the risk that existed around the world of Ebola and scientist that come in contact with the disease through experiments, and the risk of Ebola reaching and spreading through societies in the United States, causing an epidemic and more deaths. For instance, the Lieutenant Colonel Nancy Jaax story is quite mind blowing.

In The Hot Zone, Richard Preston discusses the major topic of 2015: the Ebola virus. It all began in a small cave in Kenya called “Kitum” cave. What many did not realize was that this cave would change the world.

During the mid-fourteenth century, a plague hit Europe. Initially spreading through rats and subsequently fleas, it killed at least one-third of the population of Europe and continued intermittently until the 18th century. There was no known cure at the time, and the bacteria spread very quickly and would kill an infected person within two days, which led to structural public policies, religious, and medical changes in Europe. The plague had an enormous social effect, killing much of the population and encouraging new health reforms, it also had religious effects by attracting the attention of the Catholic Church, and lastly, it affected the trade around Europe, limiting the transportation of goods. As a response to the plague that took place

One of the first important issues that Crosby discusses in her the book is the transmission and spread of yellow fever throughout the country. The epidemic started advancing quickly as countries relied and profited from selling and trading goods from West Africa. A big part of that theory is that Africa had the perfect climate for mosquitos to breed. Yellow fever requires warm weather to multiply and succeeds in hot, wet summers when mosquitoes can breed easily. Steamboats used to transport slaves

The central idea of Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone is that the outbreaks of many deadly hot agents are due to the oversight of humans. Preston conveys his message through detailed descriptions of simple mistakes that characters make. One instance of human oversight that he wrote about was the usage of dirty needles in the hospitals of Sudan, leading to a massive outbreak of Ebola Sudan. The virus “hit the hospital like a bomb” and “transformed the hospital at Maridi into a morgue” all because “the medical staff had been giving patients injections with dirty needles” (74).

My assigned book is the hot zone by Richard Preston, the book demonstrates about a highly contagious and lethal virus that is known as “Ebola virus” that is divided into two types the Ebola Zaire and the Ebola Sudan. The writer also mentioned about other filo viruses such as the Marburg virus and rabies. The hot zone book illustrates the origins of the virus and how it started to disperse from one person to another or from a region to another. And how epidemiologists, scientists and doctors discovered about the origin, structure, the effect on the body, symptoms that it can cause, treatment or cure and the nature of the pathogen. As well as several cases of different patients that had an experience of the disease without knowing the actual

Having just experienced a civil war, Americans in 1866 were primed to look for non-moral causes of disease since the morality of all of the United States seemed to be in question. By organizing an effective Board of Health, Americans in this time period were also able to quell the 1866 cholera outbreak. Had the Board of Health failed to control the outbreak like in 1832 and 1849, skepticism surrounding new scientific thought would have likely continued. In Powderly’s time, however, there was a new wave of immigrants coming to America and germ theory was well accepted, yet incomplete. Consequently, Powderly’s warning is a rather moral one.

In The New Plague by Elizabeth Rollins the idea of being forced to face details of what you hate the most about someone you love when you are forced into enclosed space with them is explored in this pre-post-apocalyptic short horror story. After being diagnosed with a highly contagious terminal disease, a husband and wife are placed under home quarantine. During this time we see the strong differences between the husband and wife, emotionally and how they view the world. We see after they face the illness together and all its ups and downs the way the view the world without giving up their core values. The New Plague by Elizabeth Rollins explores people at their core and how they change when they are forced to face their flaws while trying to live their lives in the face of death.

As their next-door-neighbors begin dying, two men are driven to action: Reverend Henry Whitehead, whose faith in a benevolent God is great, and Dr. John Snow, whose beliefs about contagion have been rejected by the scientific community, but who is convinced that he knows how the disease is had spread. “The Ghost Map” records the

“The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston is a very attention grabbing book that grabs your attention through, gruesome details and suspense. I particularly favored some parts of the book because of the gruesome details that Richard Preston used. First, I loved the part in the hospital after Charles Monet was rushed into an emergency room, after vomiting in the waiting room. “He becomes dizzy and utterly weak, and his spine goes limp and nerveless and he loses all sense of balance. The room is turning around and around.

Science fiction can be an incredible genre that authors can develop their works in various ways. From reading the books The Hot Zone by Richard Preston and World War Z by Max Brooks along with watching The Walking Dead I was able to truly identify how different authors develop science fiction pieces and what techniques are essential to creating a science fiction piece. While studying World War Z I learned exactly how Max Brooks used literary elements to develop his piece. This story follows the adventure of Jesika Hendricks and her family went through while traveling up north in the effort to escape the zombie apocalypse only to find that up north there is not nearly as much food compered to where they were originally positioned.

Charles Dickens also uses sickness to demonstrate physical disorders. Disease is a central theme throughout Bleak House, and the most recurrent disease throughout the novel is smallpox. Dickens described Tom- All- Alone’s as a symbol of the ungoverned industrialization, which also contributed to the disorder, decay, and disease enclosed in society. The rapid spread of the infection not only symbolizes the connection between the different social classes, it also symbolizes the chaos and proves the disorder and dehumanization within society.