People actually just packed up their life and moved away. Mark Sauer, a Polio Survivor is quoted with saying that Polio ‘was the robber of hope for a generation, several generations of children, there were many other diseases that were bad for America, but Polio broke its heart.’ The disease did not seem to have rhyme or reason and acted much like a tornado, affecting some but not others. With the absence of any concrete knowledge on how to stop the spread of Polio, panic and hysteria took over. Sunday schools closed and children under the age of 16 were not allowed to attend local theaters. Medical professionals and scientists initially blamed the spread on the filth and overcrowding in the immigrant neighborhoods.
Rodents also act as long term preservers for plague. Any rat bit by an infected flea would spread it to all the other fleas that bite it. This could cause it to spread around really fast. Rodents probably play the biggest roll in spreading plague around. The bubonic plague could also be very hard to detect.
About 40% of cats carry this disease most of which are kittens. The bacteria doesn’t present any harm to the cat therefore you can’t tell by looking at it if it is a carrier. Bartonella bacteria are known to be carried by fleas, body lice and ticks as well as cats. People with tick bites and no known exposure to cats have acquired the disease. The best way to reduce your risk of being infected with this rare bacteria is to avoid rough play with cats and if you are ever scratched or bitten to wash the womb immediately.
The Bubonic Plague is the most common out of all the plagues. This is a result of when a person is bitten by a rat flea. This causes Painful swellings called buboes. Buboes mostly appear in the legs, neck, armpits, and groin. The plague bacilli are little toxin factories.
She start complaining to her mom about pain in her hip, next day took her to the hospital where they said she had symptom of a virus but days after the pain spread and the fever got worse. Addie been diagnosis with spread of MRSA, a staph bacteria that cause infections resistant to many antibiotics. Second case, David Ricci, 19 years old American face another threat in India. David been run over by a train and dragged underneath it. Lucky to be alive, he was rush to the hospital, where they cut of his leg.
A patient admitted yesterday for injuries sustained in a fall while intoxicated believes bugs are crawling on the bed. The patient is anxious, agitated, and diaphoretic. What is the priority nursing diagnosis? Risk for injury A patient admitted yesterday for injuries sustained while intoxicated believes the window blinds are snakes trying to get into the room. The patient is anxious, agitated, and diaphoretic.
Children under the age of eight are also not able to receive antibiotics because the medicine is too strong for them as well. If you are already pregnant when bitten by a tick, there are three possible negative outcomes that could result. First, the baby could be born with the disease. Secondly, the mother could have a miscarriage because of the infection. Finally, the mother could carry to term, only to deliver a stillborn
“Infected rats must have left Kaffa (Caffa) on the Genoese ships. By the time the fleet reached Messina, all the crew were dead or dying; and the rats slipped unnoticed to the shore” (Altman 19). The Black Death had three known forms of the epidemic: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. The European population had not experienced disease before. They did not have the defenses in their immune system to resist a disease their body didn’t know of.The Black Death was best known as the bubonic plague, because the first known symptom of the victims who were infected with the epidemic complained of painful swelling of their groin and armpits.
Soon the government invested money just for the research of the influenza epidemic, it wasn’t much and the studies for it didn’t begin until the pandemic was over and a lot of Americans began to loose interest in what caused it. (http://www.pandemicflu.gov/general/greatpandemic2.html) The short term effect of this pandemic was that it killed millions of our people not just in the U S but all around the world, which is never a good thing. The long term effect was that it gave scientists and physicians cause to research and learn more about what caused this pandemic and rectify it or at least ensure that this won’t happen to the extent that it did. It also opened up the doors for research into other fields of medicine. Another problem that I reflected on was the way African Americans were still being treated in the 1900’s.
The people who dies after they enter the tomb wasn’t from the curse it was from natural causes. The second theory, states that because the tomb was hundreds of years old, and because the dead in those days were buried with an assortment of food, numerous potentially toxic molds and bacteria were present in the tomb. When disturbed, the theory goes; these different toxins can cause numerous complications, especially if inhaled in large quantities (Handwerk, 2005). Two of these toxins, Aspergillus niger rand Aspergillus flavus, the theory adds, can be very harmful to people whose immune systems are not strong enough to withstand the