The scarlet fever is an infection that can develop inside people who have strep throat. The infection is caused by group A streptococcus bacteria, which are the same bacteria that cause strep throat. These bacteria produce a toxin, or poison, that causes a bright red rash on the body. The scarlet-colored rash is what gives scarlet fever its name. Aside from the rash, people with scarlet fever usually have a high fever and sore throat. Scarlet fever mainly affects children between ages 5 and 15. It used to be a common and serious childhood illness, but it’s relatively rare today. Antibiotic treatments have reduced the severity of the symptoms and the prevalence of the disease. There are many ways for someone to get the scarlet fever. The Scarlet fever is caused by group A streptococcus, which are bacteria that can live in your mouth and nasal passages. The infection may be spread through contact with droplets from an infected person’s sneeze or cough. This means that your child can contract scarlet fever if they touch their mouth, nose, or eyes after touching something that has droplets from an infected person on it. They may also get scarlet fever if you drink from the same glass or eat from the same plate as an infected person. There are various …show more content…
During the time period of Frankenstein, this disease was quite common among the people. It was mostly found in children and was incurable at that time. Scarlet Fever can arguably be the beginning for all the causes that occurred in Frankenstein. Scarlet Fever in 1800s In the 1800s, scarlet fever was considered as life taking disease. There were severe epidemics of scarlet fever. The death rate at that time was as high as 972 per million of population. The ones that were suffering from the disease were taken away on horse driven “fever cabs” and were hold in isolation hospital to prevent any spreading of the disease. Furthermore, all the belongings were
The story Fever 1793 is a historical fiction novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson takes place in Philadelphia, PA during the fever epidemic in 1793. Mattie is a teenage girl that is very affected by the fever. It is a very hard time for Mattie and everyone in Philadelphia. The city turns into a ghost town after the fever arrives. Anderson uses character development and the story’s ending to create the theme that the right thing to do is not always the easiest.
It’s has been determined that it is contagious but will not make you sick. While everyone one in Lubbock was getting over their disease the town of Sweetwater had a fire costing $35,000 in damage. Crosbyton Texas, Lubbock
A major issue at that moment was that medicine was in the basement or at least located in the lower floors. Without medicine those that were sicker were in danger. More and more problems arouse and they didn’t know what could happen within the next few
The infectious disease can remain in the air, on the surface, and objects for several hours after an affected person leave the room. Haelle mention Mark Schleiss, he is a director of Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Minnesota Medical School,
Lucille, Matilda’s mother, definitely has yellow fever. In Chapter 10, Dr. Kerr visits Matilda’s mother, and tells her, “‘Rowley, the imposter. Autumnal fever
The second part of the novel was intriguing to me because the book explained how the patients were diagnosed. Usually when the doctor came to the patient's home, after a few checks, they would diagnose the patient had yellow fever although they only had a minor summer grippe of a type of fever. This was mainly shown when a doctor came to diagnose Lucille and immediately said she had yellow fever. The main reason this was done was because the doctors thought that disease was spread through smell or by refugees who lived by the river instead of understanding that the disease was spread by mosquitoes. The main characters in this part of the novel were Mrs. Flagg, Dr. Deveze, Grandpa, and Matilda.
Boston Smallpox Epidemic of 1721: When smallpox broke out in Boston, Cotton Mather introduced an untested medical procedure called “inoculation”, which would introduce a small amount of the virus to a patient, in hoping they would become immune to it. Many were opposed to it, even though it worked. Many people died due to the epidemic. 31. Common Sense: Thomas Paine wrote a book called "Common Sense", it sold more than 150,000 copies when the population was only 3 million.
Have you ever wondered who killed the famous president John F Kennedy? He was a hero and someone killed him. Or have you wondered where he was killed by? Or what he was killed with. Those are questions that people ask do you wonder that.
Both Grendel and the Fiend in Frankenstein share many similarities throughout their independent novels. Both creatures were clueless about society and as the novels and their lives progressed their knowledge grew, they were molded into creatures which were based off of their perception and experiences with society. Grendel had his first encounter with humans when he was young and began to discover the world and its processes, and he discovered that humans were not like the past animals in which he had encountered. At first the humans posed no threat to him, but when he tried to speak to them they became frightened, “The king snatched an ax from the man beside him and, without any warning, he hurled it at me. I twisted, letting out a howl, and
The authors used the help of physicians and Boards of Health from various towns to discern the impact of the epidemic. Many groups of individuals were affected by the disease, specifically the English, immigrants, and the Canadians (French Canadians and Lower Canadians). The English were known to maintain the customs they brought from their country which focused on “a good
The hot summers came along with intense heat, heavy rainfall, mosquitoes everywhere, and open sewers. Although these odors did a great danger on the people’s health business would still go on. Since the Americans had just won the Revolutionary War everyone was celebrating and too busy to notice the fever walking among them. In the streets of Philadelphia quarantine was very low standard. “Dead dish and gooey vegetable matter were exposed and rotted, while swarms of insects droned in the heavy, humid air.”
It began with infection mainly in the blood vessels of the human skin and mouth, and resulted in different kinds of symptoms for turning
Frankenstein did not take into account the feelings of the creature. Frankenstein wanted to be the first to create the life, but did not think ahead. His initial ambition is to help the people, and perhaps his creation will benefit the humankind, however, he lets his ambition take over, and does not think of what the creature will act like or do. He creates the creature but only to suffer and in return he suffers as well. Frankenstein’s actions to not take care of the creature causes the death of those around him.
Nobody knew how the epidemic had started.”. Mr. Chiu was wrongfully accused of causing a disturbance while waiting for a train to take him and his bride back home from their honeymoon. When he was released from the police’s horrid
The Real Villain Experiences, they mold your personality. They dictate what kind of person you are going to be. Victor Frankenstein clearly did not understand this when he created his “monster”. He left his creation alone in the world to figure things out by itself. In doing so, Frankenstein left the creation to terrible experience that cause him to become murderer.