Rubella Epidemic Research Paper

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It was a rainy day in America when I received my friend's call from my country. It was a really sad day with the sound of rain outside the window and the crying sound of my friend. I have been living away from my country to go to the USA to study for almost a year, but I still updating every hot issues in my country everyday. There is a disease that is exploding over there, called the "rubella epidemic". This disease is so dangerous for the children, so there are a lot of children who pass away or in danger. My friend's cousin is one of the patients. The rubella epidemic has came over my city in the last two months. It has become more and more dangerous because of the changing of this kind of virus in children's body. A lot of children have to go to the hospital after being sick with a fourty degree fever for a long time. Therefore, hospitals seem to not have enough for all the patients. They have no more room. But it is so dangerous, so families who have sick children have no choice but to stay wherever they can in the hospital. My friend's cousin had to be in this situation too. The rubella epidemic is rapidly spreading from people to people, so my friend's cousin had this disease just because of going to the hospital to get medicine for a normal sick. Thus, her family had to stay in the hospital…show more content…
Her cousin could not breath anymore and the breathing machine could not help. The baby's heart stopped at the age of two. The mother of the baby cried and cried until she passed out. The father could not even cry and talk, he just looked at the window with empty eyes. My friend whose body was shaking still trying to carry the baby's grandmother because she couldn't stand and she was about to fell down. "That was a horrible day ever in my life" cried my friend. She cried a lot when she called me. She said she didn't cry in front of her family, so that she could take care of

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