The mode of transmission that made the disease so widespread during the early Greek age is very similar to the mode of transmission in the age that we live in today. If Hipprocates were alive today, I believe that he would think that the epidemic of his day was alive and present again with the statistic that nine million people fell ill with TB in 2013. (“WHO | World Health Organization,” n.d.) While most people have had their focus on Ebola this year, few people have recognized the TB outbreak that has happened in Atlanta over the past couple of years in its homeless shelters. According to the Georgia Health News, 2014, there have been 47 cases of TB with three deaths and it’s the same kind that caused the outbreak in Atlanta in 2009. (“TB Outbreak In Atlanta, ,
After you lose control of your arms and legs breathing will already have become difficult, and will soon no longer be possible to do on one’s own, so they will go on a breathing machine until total respiratory failure and death. ALS is a disease that makes the people who have it lives miserable. There is a lot of scientific research being put into finding what causes it and finding a cure for it, but as of right now there is no cure, and no knowledge of what causes it besides the 10% of the cases that are genetic defects. Even in those cases that are caused by genetic defects they don’t know what causes the genetic defects. ALS is a very terrible disease that causes great suffering, and it needs to have a cure found.
One problem that caught my eye was the Spanish Flu pandemic that killed so many during that time. It was a serious health problem because of the fact that we lost a lot of people and there seemed to be no cure in the beginning. 675,000 Americans
The Black Death It was a devastating and sad time during 1348 to 1350 because and outbreak of a disease of plague cause by bacterium. Europe and the Islamic world lost 30% to 50% of their population. Plague is a disease that is cause by enterobacteria Yersinis pestis, and it was named after the French Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin. As stated in my reading the modern people knew the disease was infectious, but they did not know how it spread. And it was no effective treatments for it.
Erika Casas English 121 2/11/12 Struggling Through Cancer “Cancer”, it’s a disease that has claim the lives of millions, it’s a disease that so far has no known cure, and it’s a disease that has many different forms. As for my situation I wasn’t the one diagnosed with cancer; unfortunately it was my dad. My father had been complaining of a very uncomfortable pain in his lower abdomen; major weight loss, and very fatigue. We never expected it would be something more serious than just poor diet, or just a small bug he was getting over. The news was out my dad was diagnosed with “Colon Cancer”, life changing for him as well as for our entire family.
According to the CT State Library, Undercliff Sanatorium originally opened in the early 1930’s and threw much of the 30’s and 40’s. The sanatorium was dedicated exclusively for sick children who were brought there to basically die. During the 1950’s it was turned into a mental intuition for all ages. The Sanatorium closed down in May of 1976. Being abandoned for about a decade now, it can easily be forgotten, but urban legend keeps it alive claiming that the old sanatorium is still in use-by ghost of former patients.
HeLa Cells: Science Phenomena Yet No Recognition Her name was Henrietta Lacks and she was a woman who died nearly 60 years ago and lies in an unmarked grave in a cemetery in Virginia. Henrietta Lacks was a poor African American tobacco farmer who died at the age of 31 due to cervical cancer. She became one of the most important unknown figures in medicine without even knowing it. Before her death, she was being treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital for her cancer and without her knowing, doctors took some of her cells for research. She went in during a time where scientists were trying to grow human cells and culture; thus they were taking cells from anybody they could.
Spread Once the plague reached Sicily, the most remote corners of Europe were infected in less than three years. During that period, one-third of Europe's population perished, everyone lived in terror of becoming the Black Death's next victim and all knew someone who had succumbed to the plague. No one knew how to prevent or cure it. After the plague first struck in Sicily in October 1347, the disease spread rapidly: 1. Keep some clean clothes tightly folded and bound up in cloth treated with mint or pennyroyal, preferably in a cedar chest far from all animals and vermin.
Polio is a crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease caused by a virus that spreads from person to person invading the brain and spinal cord and causing paralysis. Because polio has no cure, vaccination is the best way to protect yourself and the only way to stop the disease from spreading. The spread of polio has never stopped in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. Polio-virus has been reintroduced and continues to spread in Chad and Horn of Africa after the spread of the virus was previously stopped. In the late 1940s to the early 1950s, in the United States alone, polio crippled around 35,000 people each year making it one of the most feared diseases of the twentieth century.
Much of health care is rationed in Great Britain. Tanner stated in his article, “Waiting lists are a huge problem in Great Britain. Some examples: 750,000 are on waiting lists for hospital admission; 40% of cancer patients are never able to see an oncologist; there is explicit rationing for services such as kidney dialysis, open heart surgery and care for the terminally ill.” He further went on to say, “A top-flight hospital like Suffolk Est PCT was ordered to impose a minimum waiting time of at least 122 days before patients could be treated or the hospital would lose a portion of its funding.” To impose rations and huge waiting lists are definite weaknesses of Britain’s health care system. Barton cites the mortality rate of infants in Great Britain being lower than that of the United States, I think we need to travel to their nation and see what is