Flu By Gina Kolalata Summary

Martha Ann Lillard woke up one morning in 1953 while she was in kindergarten and she had a sore throat that became something much worse; polio. Martha Ann Lillard was diagnosed with polio at age 5 and was paralyzed from the disease. Polio made her have to stay in her house for about 60 years. The reason that she had to stay home was because she had to stay in an 800 pound iron lung which helped her breathe because her respiratory system was paralyzed. The iron lung also known as a respirator helped a person with polio breathe by increasing and decreasing air pressure to expand and contract their lungs. Martha Ann Lillard went into the iron lung when she was 5 and she came out when she was 65. The big question on all of this is how it came

Within two years, it killed 50 million people worldwide. It hindered the lives of 500 million throughout the world, and 675,000 lay dead from this in the United States alone. This killer became known as the Spanish Influenza. The Spanish Influenza struck at the perfect time, on the tail end of World War I. With soldiers densely populated in bunkers, the flu spread like wildfire, especially when it arrived in the United States of America. The Spanish Influenza was a stone-cold killer. Once an individual acquired the infection, within thirty hours, most would be dead. But, could something like this actually benefit Americans and their society? Most people would say that 675,000 deaths never improves a country, but in America’s

In the 1800s, a serious outbreak took place killing thousands of people. This outbreak was called Scarlet fever. Although you don't hear about it now a days, it was known back then. The death rate for Scarlet fever was as at a minimum of one hundred thousand to as much as one hundred fifty thousand. This fever killing so many people is important because it's not a small amount. When it comes to that many people dying over a disease, something is needed to be done. Scarlet fever is a bacterial illness that develops in some people that have strep throat. In Frankenstein, a book written in the 1800s by an english writer named Mary Shelley, many of the Victor's closest people suffered from this illness. Scarlet fever was one of the main causes

In his book The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, John M. Barry tells the story of the influenza outbreak of 1918-1920, as well as the stories of the men and women who would bring about the medical breakthroughs to fight it, in vivid and well-researched detail. Broken up into three parts, each reading like more of a medical drama than the usual historical narrative, Barry ties in the stories of several men and women from William Welch, founder of the now world famous Johns Hopkins medical school to those such as Woodrow Wilson and John D. Rockefeller, all playing a role in the crisis that would come. In this book, Barry attempts to examine the period of history surrounding the great influenza outbreak of 1918-1920,

In Fido, the zombie is represented as a satisfying old school due to the way they carry themselves. They depict themselves to be shambling and have an uncertain walk. Their limbs are slowed by the attack of thoroughness mortise. They are attacked by hunger that can only be fully satisfied by consuming human flesh. These zombies are portrayed to be more docile, and they obey their prey. They are also harmless when they are in the presence of their prey. Once struck, they cry like cats or roar quietly. These zombies in this film fear humans and serve them to their best. They are almost held as captives by humans.

Influenza, “ has been described as the greatest medical holocaust in history” and may have killed as many people as the Black Plague”. This illness, (which originated from southeast asia) was obviously quite lethal, but nowadays we have an effective mean of defense, a vaccine, also known as the flu shot!

In the US, up to 64 million people are infected with influenza every year with 51 thousand cases resulting in death. (Treanor) The fever, runny nose, and body aches keep Americans curled up in their bed, miserable, all week. You try to do everything you can to isolate yourself from the virus, but somehow it always finds a way to get you sick. It seems like it is the same routine every year of taking days off work or completing make up work for school. Records of influenza symptoms date back thousands of years, with many massive outbreaks such as the 1918 Spanish flu and the 2009 Swine flu pandemic along the way. Scientists have been searching for a cure for years, but even through modern medicine, the fight against influenza continues. The structure, replication process, and limitations on modern medicine are just a few factors that keep influenza spreading across the world every year.

The Hot Zone is a book that discusses the most terrifying events that happened in the human history. This book was written by Richard Preston and It was published in the year 1994. It also discusses about the dramatic stories, giving a hair-raising experience about the lethal viruses that crashed into the human race. This book clarifies about the breakouts of the filovirus around the world, and how did people deal with this breakout. There were many moral themes that were mentioned / highlighted in this book which includes; lack of knowledge, fear, chance and Human error.

Influenza was a deadly virus that killed millions of people around the world back in 1918. The virus of influenza has eight genes with no fix structure, and the segment structure can change the virus fragmentation endlessly. The virus is independent and can replicate rapidly once it gets into your lungs which can the air pathway and the infected person would drown in their own body.

In today’s society, specific illnesses are found in certain areas because of a lack of sanitation or limited access to medicine and vaccinations. At this point, sanitation was relatively poor everywhere, which lead to its high infection rate. Other factors such as the Arab expansion, the Crusades and the discovery of the West Indies all contributed to the spread of the disease. Humans, by nature, are curious creatures, which is one of the many reasons why smallpox escalated to multiple different areas around the world. A great example of this is the introduction of smallpox by the Spanish and Portuguese explorers. Completely unknown to the “New World,” this illness killed the majority of the local population and was one of the main reasons why the Aztec and Inca empires fell. The early settlers introduced the disease to the native population, which then led to a decline. This disease had the power to decimate entire groups of people and organizations to collapse. The effects of smallpox were devastating and noticeable and led to the fist examples of biological warfare during the Fresh-Indian War. The commander of the British forces suggested using smallpox deliberately to diminish the opposing

The development of the influenza vaccine did not come overnight, doctors diagnosed patients with influenza but they did not know what it is at the time. “Throughout history, influenza viruses

The disease started it all. I lived in a small town so we never got an outbreak because almost everyone in the town was… special, even if they didn’t know it. We knew something was going to happen and everyone prepared for the worst. Hey, when you are a true

In his book The Great Influenza and in other articles, Barry builds on Jordan’s findings to argue that flu overwhelmed a local doctor in Haskell County, Loring Miner, forcing him to sleep in his buggy between night calls until he eventually became so perplexed by the disease that he filed a report with the United States Public Health Service in late March.32 But this note comprises only single sentence in the 5 April 1918 issue of Public Health Reports. It reads: ‘On March 30, 1918, the occurrence of 18 cases of influenza of severe type, from which 3 deaths resulted, was reported at Haskell, Kansas.’33 Using the local gossip columns of the Santa Fe Monitor, Barry was able to further elaborate on the significance of this otherwise obscure reference to flu activity, suggesting that these cases had actually occurred in February but were only reported at the end of March before finally being published in April.34 He argues that from this localized outbreak the flu spread to nearby Camp Funston, Kansas, at the beginning of March, then to other army camps across the United States, and later around the world after American troops arrived in Europe.35 Edwin Oakes Jordan identified only one other possible site for the origins of the 1918 flu: China. South East Asia had been linked to the origins of previous pandemics – at least in the minds of their chroniclers, and we now know that new

Panic is a forceful feeling. Panic is what sends people into a fight or flight response. The fight response in Contagion happened when people would try and fight the disease, even though there was nothing they could really do about it. The fight response also happened when people raided the stores, gas stations, pharmacies and other people's homes or fought to steal what other people had. The flight in Contagion was the people who hid and stayed inside and tried to leave town to get as far away from the disease as possible. The panic in the people changed the outbreak by people raiding businesses, when people made their family stay inside and it also changed the outbreak when people leaked information to families.

In the past, people believed that deities existed and they controlled the world. Also, people were not defeated by powerful diseases, but instead they believed that diseases came from God’s punishment. Diseases killed a great number of people. People felt weak, apprehensive, and terrified. The main reason why people were terrified of diseases is because they could not find any methods to treat or prevent diseases. In history, many deadly diseases damaged cultures and countries, so people should have know smallpox that had an effect and cause many people between the present and past.