Cecil Frederick Influenza 1918 The influenza of 1918 was the worst epidemic in American history. It killed more Americans than all the wars combined. When it started people had no clue as to what it was and what was happening. The influenza of 1918 almost broke America apart before it was over. In 1918 the United States was in good stride and very lively with all of their fear and anger at Europe.
Each “flu season”, many people die. In the time of the Great War, there wasn’t a vaccine for the flu. It killed more people than any other epidemic ever recorded in world history. The flu overtook the world during late 1918. This pandemic infected about one-third of the global population.
Both wars cost vast amounts of money and lives that affected families nation wide. In the Iraq War 4,001 U.S. troops have so far been killed and 29,320 have been seriously wounded (White) contrasting with the Vietnam War that lost 58,000 U.S. troops were killed and 304,000 seriously wounded (Vietnam). However bad those numbers may seem, looking at the U.S. government's spending in Iraq and Vietnam will make you cringe. For the Vietnam War the American government spent in total $150 billion (White) however for the Iraq War, they spent over $600 billion of U.S. tax payers funds, and President Bush has requested another $200 billion for 2008, which would bring the cumulative to a grand total of $800 billion, the average monthly spending in Iraq coming out to about $12 billion (White). The Vietnam War suffered in casualties opposed to debt in the Iraq War but both wars had and still have an extreme pull on the economy and left many in a struggle financially.
Unlike 1347 the death toll of the virus now is nowhere close to the number of people that had died of the plague back in the 14th century. The biggest difference in these two diseases is that the plague of the 14th century spread quickly and killed almost instantly, The Swine flu of 2009 in the other hand is just basically like a seasonal flu but worse, it can be controlled with medication and sometimes medication isn’t even needed and can be cured on its own in just a few days. Yes this disease can be a deadly virus, but can be controlled and in my point of view shouldn’t be categorized as a pandemic. The Plague of 1347 was way worse and effected many countries and no one had any support from anyone including there loved ones, but with the new era and the study of medication, were able to handle such diseases as the swine flu very well, because we have the help and support of not only our government but doctors and loved
This began to severley mark and tarnish American relations with European nations, as American soldiers were seen to be careless and vengeful. “There were more than 2,000 casualties [at the Battle of Caen] on the first two days, and in a way it was miraculous that more people weren't killed when you think of the bombing and the shelling which carried on for days afterwards. Eight hundred civilians lost their lives in the 48 hours following the invasion, and 15,000 took refuge for more than a month in the tunnels to the south of the city.” The civilian population drastically fell, immediately following these intense bombings, proving to be living evidence of the mistakes made by Allied forces. “Caen had fallen from 60,000 to 17,000 civilians, causing great resentment” between the two powers, furthering that American-European
The plague was so severe that it affected almost the whole sectors of life; including economic sectors, personal lives of people, and various others. The Black Death’s most severe affect was on the population. The population of Europe was deeply affected by it as there was no cure for such a disease. The reason the plague spread so wildly was because of the fleas and rats that carried it from one place to another in their skin. Within five years of the arrival of the disease, Europe saw 25 million people die.
Small pox opened up the eyes to the world and showed them that health is important. In 1770’s 30 percent of the native American’s died caused by small pox (Northwest cost). The northwestern coast first time they saw small pox was when they came in contract with Europeans. In the 1770’s Robert Boyd estimated that small pox killed almost 11,000 Western Washington Indian it’s population decreased from 37,000 to 26,000 people. Throughout the years the Western Washington Indian’s population kept decreasing they kept dying from the infectious disease of smallpox.
In medieval Europe, during this time, the epidemic drastically decreased the population in Europe. It had terrified the hearts of every person in Europe to know that an unexplainable disease, of that magnitude, was out there. The once positive outlook people had on the life of the thirteenth century had perished along with the many lives the plague took along with it. The mystery of the causes of the plague took over five centuries to uncover. Several unjustifiable phenomenon and myths were devised during this period concerning the causes of this disease.
Effects of The Black Death The biggest, most disastrous epidemic to ever affect Europe, and the world, the Black Plague, is also commonly referred to as the “Black Death”. The Black Death was an epidemic that killed an estimated 75 million people worldwide (Wikipedia). The Black Death lasted from 1347 to 1352 (Kishlansky 295), and had a lasting affect on the world. One-third to one-half of Europe’s population died from this epidemic (Kishlansky 295). People lived in fear of this disease that it would affect them and moved on with life with their saying of “live for the moment” (Wikipedia).
You know how many black man graduate? Not many, because you bring them down to this type of level, where they feel like they don’t have nothing else to live for anyway” An angry St. Louis mother said after her unarmed son was shot 6 time and killed by a white officer. After listening to this I felt her pain because she is speaking the truth. Society had been targeting the black community and black for the longest. It feel like they are pushing us back to segregation times where we was separated by race.