McClintock and Ford are in the village, and they see Africans and Army soldiers dying from a mysterious virus. McClintock asks the African doctor how many have died, and the doctor replied, '30 men yesterday, and 18 the day before'. In the beginning of the movie, what year is shown? http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Movies/Outbreak-4607.html 'Outbreak' For Diehards, Part 1
C228 Community Health Task 2 Michelle Wall Meningococcal disease is a disease that can be found worldwide. Meningococcal disease refers to any disease or illness that is caused by the type of bacteria called Neisseria meningitides, also called meningococcus (Meningococcal disease, 2015). The first documented outbreak was over two hundred years ago in Geneva in 1805 which circulated rapidly and killed thirty three people. The first case ever recorded in America was in 1806 in Medford, Massachusetts (Fredericks, n.d.). A European physician, Professor A Weichselbaum, discovered the cause of the mysterious cerebro-spinal meningitis illness in 1887 and Penicillin was the first antibiotic used to fight the disease.
Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing (C228) – Task #2 TUBERCULOSIS Stephanie Sanderson Western Governors University Mentor: Mikki Naught October 12, 2014 Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (or, “TB”) has existed throughout history. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (or, M. tuberculosis) is the causative bacterium in most cases of TB. M. tuberculosis was first described by Robert Koch in March of 1882. Presently, it is one of the world’s deadliest diseases (www.cdc.gov). In 2013, more than 9500 cases of TB were reported in the United States alone; during the previous year, there were about 1.3 million TB-related deaths, worldwide.
21 Oct. 2008 <http://www.proquest.com/ This is an informative article chronicling in part the early history of vaccine development against the avian flu. The articles main focus is concerning the continuing development of vaccines that can target the mutating virus, and how the medical community in this country should prepare for the increasingly likely avian flu pandemic. Not only does this journal entry involve a good detail of the epidemiology of the influenza mutations, but also a detailed description and diagrams of vaccine
Per the WHO (2014), the latest Ebola outbreak with began in January 2014 has killed over 1,000 Liberians and healthcare workers to date. ABC proposes to launch a promising solution in the form of a new vaccine EBSTAT which has just passed the first phase of clinical trials in the United States (US). Market Structure and Elasticity ABC industries is one of only four companies worldwide who are working on a new medication to treat and prevent the deadly disease. The EBSTAT market structure is limited and is considered an oligopoly, due to the extremely high costs
Community Health and Population Focused Nursing C228 SZT Task 2 August 1, 2014 Measles p. 2 Measles, also known as Rubeola is a highly contagious acute viral illness. It is caused by a virus in the paramyxovirus family. In 1953, 549,000 measles cases were reported in the United Stated, along with 495 measles deaths, annually. Although 549,000 cases were reported, it is estimated that 3-4 million people or most every American was infected with this virus during their lifetime. After the implementation and licensure of the live measles vaccine in 1963 the number of cases significantly dropped by 1988 in the U.S...
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. By 1979 the country had become polio free. There were 1,195 cases reported in 2006. Polio incidences has dropped more than 99.9 percent since the launch of global polio eradication efforts in 1988. According to global polio surveillance data from October 23, 2013, 301 polio cases have been reported from the following countries: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Nigeria, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and South Sudan.
Once the measles virus had been confirmed it was reported to the CDC of the outbreak. The CDC then advised the Knox county health
Combined with a minority of cases in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, 5,843 people have contracted Ebola hemorrhagic fever, resulting in 2,803 deaths (http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/ebola-6-months/en/). The Ebola virus is highly contagious and has a high mortality rate, usually around 50 percent, but areas struck by previous outbreaks of the disease have experienced mortality rates as high as 90 percent (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/). Without delving further into the medical or biological data regarding the virus, it is suffice to say that this virus has the potential to cause a worldwide pandemic. It is therefore imperative
Around two thirds of the global total are living with HIV in that area. Statistics show that in 2009 around 1.3 million people died from AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. An estimated amount of 1.8 million people became infected with HIV in the same region. (HIV and AIDS in Africa) African countries have made initiatives for prevention plans against Aids. The Aids Prevention plan in Africa; whether it is abstinence or safe sex.