Yellow fever; a gruesome‚ painful disease that spread like a bad rumor. Yellow fever originated in Philadelphia in 1793. The reason for this disease is because foreign ships brought fruit from around the world which drew mosquitoes to nest in the pool of water where the fruit was put for the long journey to Philadelphia. Once you were bitten by an infected mosquito‚ you were automatically infected with the disease. Once the same mosquito bites another person‚ they were also infected with the disease
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know that the yellow fever is estimated to infect 200‚000 people a year causing 30‚000 deaths. 90% of these deaths are in Africa. In Fever 1793‚ there is an outbreak of the yellow fever in the newly born country now called the United States of America. The main character‚ Matilda is very childish and lazy when it comes to work around the house. When her mother is diagnosed with the fever‚ her whole life and future is filled with fear. After she personally experiences the fever and survives‚ she starts
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They will even throw their own flesh and blood out of a two story window if it means saving themselves. In Fever 1793‚ by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ Mattie Cook lives above her family’s coffeehouse with her widowed mother and grandfather‚ and also her cat Silas. She dreads doing chores and is constantly making plans to expand her family business‚
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Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever | RLE 7.2 Batch 2012 | | DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER Philippine Hemorrhagic Fever was first reported in 1953. In 1958‚ it was renamed as Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever as it became a notifiable disease in the country. Recently‚ dengue has indeed become a major health concern. All persons are susceptible to dengue infection‚ with both sexes equally affected. The age groups that are most dominantly affected are preschoolers and school age children. Adults and infants are
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Family Have you ever wanted your family to go away? Matilda felt like that until the fateful summer of 1793. In the novels Fever 1793 by and Escaping From Warsaw the theme of never leave your family behind is shown by the characters actions and words with their families‚ the feelings and emotions toward their family‚ and how the families all stick together. The characters actions and words toward their families change during the book. At first Matilda dislikes her mother because her mother gives
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Fever 1793 written by Laurie Halse Anderson is “A gripping story about living morally under the shadow of rampant death.” The story shows a part of the world that many of us don’t know what feels like. It draws you into the plot‚ and makes you contemplate how you would act in the life threatening situation. In the story‚ a young adult‚ Mattie‚ is living through the fever in Philadelphia. With lots of loss‚ and sorrow Mattie always finds something to look forward too. The book Fever 1793 suggests
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Scarlet Fever is a flesh eating infection that begins in the throat. The most apparent sign of scarlet fever is the rash. It begins on the neck and makes its way down the body. It looks like a sunburn with itchy tiny bumps. An early treatment for this disease are antibiotics. There is no vaccine and it most usually occurs in old and young people (Ages 1-6 and 75-older). Scarlet Fever is actually the name of the condition of how the body reacts to the bacterium. As you can tell this Disease is quite
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Wharton‚ who experienced many complicated relationships‚ wrote many short stories with the subtle use of situational irony (“Roman Fever” 299). In the twentieth century short story “Roman Fever‚” Edith Wharton employs symbolism and irony to ascertain that the most open of friends often realize that they do not know everything about each other. The author of “Roman Fever‚” Edith Wharton‚ depicts two upper class friends who spent some time in Rome as little girls. The two women‚ while sitting on a restaurant
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What do you now know and understand about the historical events from your novel? A complex question because as well as the facts and the hard truths of the Yellow Fever epidemic‚ I also have learned to understand how to feel empathy and happiness for the people that had to go through the awful calamity of 1793. I have a deep respect for the people that were volunteers of the Free African Society because they were the real hero’s of the story. They were the people that did not flee when crisis arose
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Typhoid fever is a symptomatic disease caused by Salmonella Typhi. The bacteria generally responsible for the enteric fever syndrome is S enterica serotype Typhi (1). It is characterized by fever‚ red-colored rash‚ severe abdominal pain‚ and slow heart‚ beat. It concentrates on the intestine and the channel of infection (2). Typhoid fever is usually found in under-developed countries with poor sanitation (3). Statistics show that between seventeen and twenty-two million cases are reported and two
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