According to CBC News World, “The storm hit Haiti's rural western tip hard, flooding the refugee-camp homes of quake survivors.” (2010). The storm was actually downgraded from hurricane to tropical storm but still caused massive flooding with the vast amount of rain and mudslides that were rampant. The country also has a long history of earthquakes dating back to 1564. The most recent in this list is the 2010 earthquake close to Port-Au-Prince. The nation is located in a region seismic activity due to the movement of the Caribbean tectonic plate, which is compared with which a finger shoving away against two larger plates, the North American and South American.
Due to the large arrival of people in Soho, London, pollution increased and the London government had to resort to dumping the waste into nearby rivers. This action contaminated the water supply, and shortly afterwards, the cholera outbreak occurred. As a result of the cholera outbreak, water pumps in the city delivered water that was contaminated with cholera. During John Snow’s time, people believed that cholera was an air borne disease. They were unaware that cholera was actually water
The first difference between the Spanish Flu of 1918 and H1N1 is that the Spanish Flu was more deadly during its reign than the recently occurring H1N1 pandemic. The Spanish Flu of 1918 infected over
This disease varied between Bubonic, Phumonic and Septicaemic plague strains. (***) The sickness went through three different stages. First, people caught flu like symptoms like sneezing, headache, and stomachache, and started to look for help or take medicine. Then, black werts, also know as buboes, started to appear in the groin on near the armpits. These
During in the period of 1800-1939, many historical events impacted nursing in Canada. Among these events are the increased number of immigrants from Europe, the great epidemics of the 19th century and the world wars I and II. During this period the large number of immigrants that came to Canada were poorly nourished and travelled in vessels which were overcrowded and unsanitary, disease inevitably followed (Kerr & MacPhail, 1988). “Cholera was the plague that the immigrants brought with them in 1832. In Quebec alone there were 3851 deaths and in Montreal and neighbouring villages there were 4000 roughly one seventh of the population” (Gibbon & Mathewson, 1947, p. 72).
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, looting, violence and other criminal activity became serious problems. The rescue efforts, had most of the attention of the police, causing the security to weaken (Hurricane Katrina, 2010). There was a concern that the constant flooding would lead to health problems. In addition to dehydration and food poisoning, there was also potential of the spread of various infections and disease. All related to the growing contamination of food and drinking water supplies in the city in combination with the city’s heat and humidity
Over Consumption vs. Under Consumption Throughout the world there have been numerous diseases that derive solely from food consumption. Various countries suffer from infection due to the lack of food, whereas other countries suffer from the over indulgence of food. In Haiti, the majority of food borne illnesses comes from the lack of consumption. According to John Eyles, Tuberculosis is the main infectious disease that is common in areas of poverty (Eyles).
The famine began in September 1845, it was an airborne fungus which killed the much needed crops and in turn caused the migration from Ireland. Throughout the famine years, nearly a million Irish arrived in the United States. Famine immigrants were the first big wave of poor refugees ever to arrive in the U.S. Just about all of the immigrants to America arrived by boat and ship. These ships were often referred to as “coffin ships” due to the poor condition and that a lot of the time when or if they made the 3000 mile journey they were saturated with disease and death. http://www1.assumption.edu/ahc/irish/Irish_emigrants_Mersey.jpgIrish immigrants boarding a “coffin ship” to America in
During the 1854 cholera breakout in London, many factors contributed to the resistance to innovation regarding the causation of this disease. Class prejudices, folklore, and the general acceptance of the miasmas theory created a resistance so strong that thousands of Londoners died before the Board of Public Health finally accepted the possibility that cholera was being spread through drinking water. John Snow, a highly acclaimed anesthesiologist of the time, developed a theory that suggested a possible reason for the sudden wave of illness throughout the streets of London. After countless days walking the disease-stricken streets of south London, many hours spent pondering the day’s research, and personal intuition that told him that problems with the digestive system
At the time, it was deadly – the constant loss of fluids caused such severe dehydration that the patients often fell into comas and died. Snow was an epidemic doctor, and the first to prove there was a link between water and cholera. In 1854, he worked on Broad Street in Soho, London. This street and