Throughout history‚ there have been significant pandemics that have left a great impact on humankind. The first influenza pandemic to occur took place in 1918-1919. This pandemic was later classified as the Spanish influenza A H1N1. Successive outbreaks of influenza had occurred almost simultaneously throughout North America‚ Europe and Africa with not much being know about the virulence of the virus. It has been estimated that this pandemic caused around fifty million deaths in only twelve months
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Molly Morris 29.10.2013 ‘German Aggression was responsible for the outbreak of a general European War in August 1914’. How far do you agree? There is much evidence to suggest that German Aggression was responsible for the outbreak of a general European war in August 1914. Both Sources 1 and 2 play on the idea that both the Kaiser and Bethmann Hollweg used its foreign policies to create tension within Europe which consequently led
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Discuss the Possibility of Global Pandemic in Modern Times When we are talking of the possibility of a global pandemic it is not so hard to imagine as it is a current reality‚ the risk and rate of infection seems to be steadily on the increase. A pandemic is a worldwide epidemic that‚ according to the World Health Organisation‚ (WHO) has to meet three conditions; the infectious microbe infects and causes serious illness to humans and humans don’t have immunity against the Virus. This virus can also
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INFORMATION SYSTEM AS AN EFFECTIVE FORCE AGAINST H1N1 PANDEMIC Public health leaders and communities face extraordinary challenges when a novel influenza virus emerges. Timely data and information are needed in order to make containment decisions‚ prioritize antiviral and/or vaccine distribution‚ deploy personnel and communicate with industry experts and the public. Arguably‚ pandemics that occurred before the 2009 H1N1 outbreak were more devastating because we lacked the benefit of information
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Hepatitis: A Pandemic Predicament NUR/426 April 26‚ 2011 Hepatitis: A Pandemic Predicament Viral hepatitis could be considered a disease of “antiquity” when Hippocrates described his infectious icterus findings 2400 years ago (Schmid‚ 2001). It is unclear what type of liver disease infiltrated the population at the time. However‚ by many historical accounts‚ the Middle Ages were inflicted by outbreaks commonly referred to as “campaign or epidemic jaundice” and were related to wars‚ famines
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1580 pandemic is the first outbreak that we can be certain was Influenza. During the summer of 1580 the pathogen was recorded around Asia Minor and North Africa. Due to knowledge gained by Italian accounts‚ it is believed that it moved from Malta to Sicily in July 1580 and then had dispersed through the Italian peninsula by August of that same year. Throughout that time Phillip II lorded over Southern Italy‚ and several North African ports. So we can therefore theorise that this outbreak was likely
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"The War to End All Wars"‚ was a global military conflict that took place mostly in Europe between 1914 and 1918.1 WW I was a conflict between the Allied Powers (France‚ Russia‚ Serbia‚ Great Britain and Italy) and the Central Powers (Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ Bulgaria‚ and the Ottoman Empire). And then World War I began because of M.A.I.N.‚ this stands for Militarism‚ Alliance system‚ Imperialism‚ and Nationalism.WW1 ended by the mean of the Treaty of Versailles which was constructed to punish Germany
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American Pandemic In the early years of 1918 through 1920‚ influenza stormed around the world in the worst pandemic in recorded history‚ killing at least fifty million people‚ and more than half a million of them were Americans. Yet‚ despite the devastation‚ many groups of people within the United States handed this epidemic very differently from each other. There were differences between “men as well as women‚ whites as well as people of color‚ middle and upper classes‚ as well as the working
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Who caused the outbreak of World War One? If you would ask people who was responsible for world war one‚ most of them would say – Germany. But even though after WW1‚ the blame was given on Germany‚ Many historians are still unsure which country was most responsible for the outbreak of war. Since 1900‚ there was tension in Europe. There were wars and other events that caused crisis in countries. But the spark of the world war lit only after the 28 June 1914‚ when Gavrilo Princip‚ a Bosnian Serb
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"To w hat extent was Germany responsible for the First World War." There are many different factors that contributed to the outbreak of WWI. The most important of these are imperialism‚ the arms race‚ the alliance system‚ nationalism and the assassination of the Austrian Arch Duke. Although Germany has a share in the responsibility of these factors‚ she was definitely not the lone cause. Many powerful European nations played a roughly equal part in their contribution‚ which consequently started
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