Cholera

However by the 1900’s, one concept had dominated the medical landscape. The continued development of medical theories symbolized the increased complexity of thinking between physicians and scientists. During the 1800’s, major infectious diseases like cholera, tuberculosis, typhus, and yellow fever strongly emerged in Europe with the etiology of these infections far to be known. Some of the early concepts that could have explained such diseases included the ontological and physiological concept.…

Devastating Earthquake in Haiti 2010 Haiti is considered one of the poorest countries in the world. However, now imagine the fear of living a horrible nightmare, and then went you wake up the horrible nightmare comes true, even worse than you dreamed. That was the real situation for more than three million people, in one of the poorest countries. That case occurred in Haiti. In January, 2010 a devastating earthquake of 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale, overwhelmed this country and…

of the diseases. This can be seen in the transmission of Vibrio cholera, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and malaria. Without transmission a disease will not survive, it cannot continue to thrive without transfer to another host. Infections are dependent on their hosts, so therefore without the host the disease is destined to die, which is why successful infections do not immediately kill their host. Vibrio cholera, or cholera…

ultimately he fails because everyone dies. It correlates historically to the bubonic plague of the early 1300s. Although Poe does not specify what prompted him to write his short story, he intertwines the historical events such as tuberculosis and cholera to inspire the writing of “The Masque of the Red Death.” The bubonic plague wreaked havoc in Europe and Pope Clement VI “estimated that 23,840,000 people had died...one-third of Europe’s population died in about three years”(“Black…

this concept. The Broad Street Pump was the deadly cause of cholera in London many years ago. He convinced town officials to take the handle of the pump so that no one could get any contaminated water. With Snow’s investigation of where the cholera was coming from, he helped pave the way for many others to fight against our present day environmental threats. John Snow was the first person to do an epidemiologic study on the cholera outbreak in London. Snow lived near the city of Soho,…

new types of bad air, and thus best explained the emergence of diseases as epidemics. Malaria became a major problem in the tropics, and Cholera became a major problem in the cities. The mechanism of spreading for cholera and malaria, were believed to be best explained by the proposed Miasma theory with the disease being caused by the air. In the case of cholera, the sewer system gives off the bad air, and in the case of malaria, the standing water gives off the bad air. It…

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson is a true story of a terrifying outbreak of cholera and how Dr. John Snow and reverend Henry Whitehead used their knowledge of the disease to find out how prevalent it was over the whole city of London. The disease may have been unfamiliar to them, but common to the millions of people around the country, whose living conditions and sanitation processes were not as good or advanced as theirs. The story reflects the world through the wide varieties of disciplines,…

The Haitian epidemic alone resulted in an 85 percent increase in the number of cholera cases worldwide . Many experts believe this outbreak of cholera was the first incidence of the disease in Haiti in decades. As a result, the population lacked immunity and was particularly vulnerable to the illness. This is a major reason for the rapid spread of cholera. Density doesn’t matter if the body is this vulnerable. Although many other points have been mentioned, Density does play a massive role.…

research daily. Author Steven Johnson sheds light on the horrors of life before the development of basic sanitation in The Ghost Map. Traveling back all the way to Victorian London, where children were lucky to live past five years old, disease, notably cholera, ruled all parts of life. When entire neighborhoods were wiped out within a matter of days, scientists like Doctor John Snow rose to the challenge in finding its cause. Snow's success in identifying cholera's transmission was the…

Reflection Paper on Ghost Map John Snow is recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern epidemiology. In Ghost Map, it gives the details of John Snow’s efforts to discover that cholera was a water-borne illness. What John Snow did differently was he mapped the cases, and the map essentially represented each death as a bar. On the Broad Street pump, which was free, public source of drinking water for a long time, it located a well beneath Golden Square, to some of London’s poorest and…