This disease killed tens of thousands of Indians in the New World. Syphilis was the most deadly disease for the Europeans. This was a disease that was transmitted sexually. This was most common with sailors who went long periods of time without women. So once they touched down on land they would contract this disease.
Hurricane Sandy destroyed millions of homes, brought a bunch of sand onto the roads, and killed 209 people. Sandy caused $52.4 billion in damages. Another hurricane that has hit the US is Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina caused subsequent floods and caused $81 billion in damaged. Katrina also killed at least 1,833 people in the time that it took to cross most of eastern North America.
Compared to the rest of Britain, it is shocking. Around 350 intravenous drug addict take fatal overdoses in the whole of England and wales each year. If London’s death rate was the same as Glasgow’s, more than 1,000 youngsters would die each year – three every day. [1] Also, the weather has an
The epicentre was a town named Leogane; about 19km (12 miles) west of Port-au-Prince, thousands were left homeless and up to 80-90% of buildings in Leogane were destroyed. The quake was quickly followed by two strong aftershocks of 5.9 and 5.5 magnitudes. It was the worst earthquake to hit the Caribbean island in 2 centuries. The island lies on the Enriquilla-Plantain Garden Fault however it was caused by an interaction between the North American and Caribbean Plates. After which the barely noticed island became the centre of the world’s news channels, it became one of the most noticed natural disasters in history with celebrities and normal people alike doing allsorts to raise money and aid for the victims of the quake.
INTRODUCTION ON THE 1918 INFLUENZA PANDEMIC AND THE CYTOKINE STORM PHENOMENA Influenza pandemic 1918 is an epidemic of influenza virus that’s has spread worldwide and infected a large population. This epidemic affected the course of history and was a terrifying presence at the end of World War 1 and a worst season of death in America’s history . The 1918 pandemic spread more or less simultaneously in 3 distinct effects during the 12-month period in 1918–1919, in Europe, Asia, and North America and the first sign was best describe in the United States in March 1918. The virus is H1N1 type A influenza . Like general flu, where the majority deaths are seen in the elderly and children under 2 years old, approximately half of the deaths linked
• Half a million Germans lost their lives in the bombing, way more civillian lives than were lost in Britain during the Blitz. • Huge numbers of bombs 955,044 dropped. • There was a cost to British lives too, 55,000 members of Bomber Command were killed in action. • 1945- Dresden 44,000 died • The destruction of Dresden as a mjor cultural centre and its heavy casualities so late in the war made it a controversial decision. In context, there were so many German cities destroyed by that point, perhaps bombing Dresden had little strategic significance.
The book begins with a quick summary of the epidemiology and human costs of the influenza in the year of 1918. There is a lot of background information in the beginning of the book, which gave a better understanding of the scientist’s involved and general information on diseases. Kolata then turns to the main focus of the book, sciences effort to understand what exactly happened in 1918. She covers many experiments, which soon leads to the conclusion that the flu had not been caused by bacteria, but by a virus. In the year of 1918 the spread of the flu started by Germans who slipped into Boston Harbor on U-boats and then sneaked ashore, carrying vials of plague germs with them.
Between the Americas and the Pacific islands, small pox, but measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, and influenza took heavy tolls on many people. In the western hemisphere, before the voyages, none of the people acquired or possessed those diseases, but in the eastern hemisphere, they were endemic. When these infectious diseases traveled to unexposed populations, it set-off terrible epidemics that destroyed entire societies. In 1519, the epidemic smallpox took over the Aztec empire. Imported diseases took the worst tolls in less populated areas like the Aztec and Inca empires.
Virgin-soil epidemics are the deadliest phenomena ever experienced by humankind. The cataclysmic effects of virgin-soil epidemics struck Native American societies just as they faced the threat of European invasion. None of this could have occurred at a worse time for the Americans. The varities of domesticated animals and infectious diseases that jumped back and forth form animals to humans were more numerous in the old world than the new. Many migrated west across Eurasia with animals or people, or were brought by traders from
“The outbreak of war in Europe in 1914 was due to an aggressive foreign policy which had been waged since c.1900”. How far do you agree with this opinion? Explain your answer using sources V, W and X and your own knowledge relating to the controversy. The implication that Germany’s use of an aggressive foreign policy led to the outbreak of the First World War is an extremely controversial topic, and has ultimately caused great debates amongst historians. Fischer, the provoker of this controversy, expresses this concept of German aggression by stating that since c.1900 Germany planned, and then was able to execute a war, due to their aggressive weltpolitik; based purely on expansionism.