The last man on earth sat in his room...when he heard a knock on the door. He had never imagined it would come to this. He was the last man on earth, and it was lonely. He slept lonely, ate lonely, dreamed lonely and breathed lonely. It seemed like only yesterday that paradise had all gone to pot... It had been on the news. Effecting only small amounts of people, in small parts of the world. Elderly, then children, then everyone. Not AIDS, not cancer, not even the cold. Zombies? Hardly...Aliens, we hoped. Religous sky god returning to take only his followers? dream on... No... It was much worse then that... It was all over the social networks and internet... ...and for one moment the world was not shitting kittens over gay marriage and who was on Muray. "Five die from skin eating bacteria" "Hospitals clueless" For once drugs and medience was not the answer. Had they ever been? But then again no one knew the answer. The outbreak hit third world countries and we didnt worry, It hit small parts of Europe and we didnt worry, Japan had mass deaths and we didnt worry. Florida saw its first case in the year 2043...and we worried. It was just the beginning of the end. The bacteria started off as it had before, Nursing homes, then schools, then children brought it home. Then everyone. No movie had prepaired us for the savage attack on our bodies that this bacteria brought. We prayed for a cure, we cursed god for a cure, and we swamped the hospitals for a cure. The Rich offered rewards, for anyone smart enough to make a cure. The poor killed others for a cure. For once money didnt talk. Not when your skin was desolving day after day. He still remembered the day his daugther had not felt well. "Its the flu" His wife assured... He still r... ... middle of paper ... ...en anything to be serious about...no one made it out of life alive right? Then it hit him... Why was HE alive... He had been exposed to countless bodies, those of loved ones and enemeys alike...small, large, medium and in between. He had never caught it. It seemed he wouldnt at this rate. The noise had been a dream at first. His mind was breaking finally, a happy delusion of the silly notions his cranium had potrayed to keep that small seed of hope alive. Then it happened again... Loud knocking... Strong knocking... Knocking?! He looked down the long hallway...at the door. Steel door...echoed as it sounded again Maybe he should answer that...the doorbell was obviously broken. Maybe... How much worse could it be? He could catch it... It could end... The last man on earth sat in his room...when he heard a knock on the door. ...so he opened it. Works Cited Mysellf
In short, the book 'Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History' explains the dynamism, the changing interactions between humans and microbes, and the way and extent to which these interactions have influenced the human cultural history. This book is very useful because it tell us that we must strive to understand what makes microbes successful as we are faced with unrelenting microbial drug resistance. Microbes mutate to fatal human pandemics and it’s for this reason that we need to adopt a microbe centric world views.
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This lead to the demise of the population when the disease was transported through the heart of an infected man. Once the doctors completed the heart transplant, the man came to life with the generic grey blood and he was much more hostile.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Not only are the descriptions of cases terrifying, but McKenna’s word choice provides the fuel for the fire. The book uses phrases that sound as if they were pulled directly out of a Contagion sequel, such as a rare subcategory of MRSA that manifests as a “flesh eating disease.” “Cloud babies,” is a name given to infected newborns that are capable of spreading MRSA throughout hospital nurseries by shedding the bacteria on microscopic particles,. These erie definitions and surreal scientific evidence work in conjunction with McKenna’s knack for storytelling to paint a picture of the next big
In the short story, The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury, a man who has a dream about the world coming to an end. As the man proceeds with discussing the dream with his wife, they are both surprised at their own actions and reactions to accepting the reality of discovering the world is coming to an end that night resulting in their own immediate deaths. Remarkably he discovers that everyone has had the same dream and the dream has accepted the real event. In the remaining hours of being alive, the man and his wife do discuss the reasons why life might be ending, what they had done to deserve this fate, how they feel about the end and what do they want to do on their last night alive. As every second, minute, and hour passes on the clock,
Almost no one on Earth has any immunity at all to this virus, which makes ordinary vaccines useless against it. The sudden spread of the virus into Europe foreshadows an epidemic development that could be worldwide. Ultimately, there is no way to protect ourselves against epidemics. They will keep disappearing and coming back in new forms.
returns to the mead hall to listen to it. One night while he is listening, he hears
Jack dying in his arms, looking at his mother and saying he could see heaven and asking her, “will you meet me in heave...
...influenza pandemic in one way or another; the use of quarantines were extremely prevalent among them. Also, the pandemic is directly responsible for the creation of many health organizations across the globe. The organizations help track and research illnesses across the globe. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) for example, strive to prevent epidemics and pandemics. They also provide a governing body with directives to follow in case an outbreak does occur, and if one shall occur the efforts of organizations across the globe will be crucial for its containment. It is amazing that with modern medicine and proper organization that influenza still manages to make its appearance across the globe annually.
“But how did it come to this?” you’re probably asking yourself. Humans may have been studying antibiotics, but so were bacteria – and they’ve b...
I opened the door to the garage, instantly the smell of death filled my nose. I looked around the garage, looking for that stupid man. I spotted him in a chair, slumped, by the staircase. How dare he be so upset.
The inevitable, but unpredictable, appearance of new infectious diseases has been recognized for millennia, well before the discovery of causative infectious agents. The ease of world travel and increased global independence has added layers of complexity to containing these infectious diseases that affect not only the health but the economic stability of societies (Morens et al., 2013).
The Government and Politicians didn’t really care. Most of them ignore it and waited for the last minute. Others, like the President Ronald Regan spent more money on war supplies and other stuff, than helping the CDC find a cure. They were only given a certain limited space, no money, and outdated equipment.
...gests that the world is on the brink of a post-antibiotic era as the numbers of resistant bacteria (superbugs) proliferate, and there is an increase in the number of people dying from previously treatable infections. Todar, (n.d) states, “Society could be faced with previously treatable diseases that have become again untreatable, as in the days before antibiotics were developed.”
In the 1960s, doctors in the United States predicted that infectious diseases were in decline. US surgeon Dr. William H. Stewart told the nation that it had already seen most of the frontiers in the field of contagious disease. Epidemiology seemed destined to become a scientific backwater (Karlen 1995, 3). Although people thought that this particular field was gradually dying, it wasn’t. A lot more of it was destined to come. By the late 1980s, it became clear that people’s initial belief of infectious diseases declining needed to be qualified, as a host of new diseases emerged to infect human beings (Smallman & Brown, 2011).With the current trends, the epidemics and pandemics we have faced have created a very chaotic and unreliable future for mankind. As of today, it has really been difficult to prevent global epidemics and pandemics. Although the cases may be different from one state to another, the challenges we all face are all interconnected in this globalized world.