I remember when it all happened… It was just a regular friday afternoon, I was hanging out with jessie and griffin at out local pancake restaurant in town. We all ordered the chocolate pancakes, like we always do. The waitress brought out our food and i thought I smelled something, but i just waved it off. Jesse and Griffin were talking politics and i couldn't help but wonder what that smell was, as i was thinking i noticed something in my pancakes, not chocolate chips, but something larger and a darker shade of brown, I picked it up with my fork and I lifted it up to my nose and it smelled like… droppings. I lost my appetite. I told Jesse and Griffin and they nearly threw up. When the waitress went by, we asked for the bill and we left. …show more content…
I noticed some people with red eyes around town, and at first, i thought nothing of it, but as time passes by, I started observing people, and soon nearly every body in town was getting red eyes. I started getting worried and called my family,and i asked if any of them had been getting red eyes, my father picked up the phone and said that he had red eyes but he hasn't been getting a lot of sleep lately. When i heard this, i started doing some research and the closest thing i could find is some virus called lassa fever, which makes people have red eyes and rat like teeth. As i started to do some research i found something.. Lassa fever is spread through rat droppings.. i started to think to myself “ could this be what i found in my pancakes the other day?!” I started to freak out, but then I found the cure, Ribavirin I sat back in my chair with relief. I walked over to the phone and I called my dad. I told him he had some disease lassa fever, and that it was a very deadly, my dad started freaking out, but i told him that there was a cure, called Ribavirin. He was filled with …show more content…
It seemed like everybody in town hadn't been themselves lately. Jessie, Griffin, and I all decided that we weren't taking any chances of getting the virus… so we hid in the subway station underground. From city to city, town to town, we hid all day and all night, only surfacing to gather recourses. We hid for 6 years straight, surviving off of scraps and our determination to find a cure. A few days ago, Griffin found a gun shop and took as many supplies as he could. Now, we decided that were done hiding, were done fighting for scraps… were gonna fight! and were gonna find the
It’s the year 2028, and the world we used to know as bright and beautiful is no longer thriving with light. A disease similar to the plague broke out and caused great havoc. Although it may seem like forever ago, sickness spread only a few years ago. The Road by Cormac McCarthy is about a man and his son who fortunately survived this sickness; although they made it, the struggle to keep going is tough. Before most of the population became deceased, people went insane. They started to bomb houses, burn down businesses and towns, and destroy the environment. Anyone who had the disease was bad blood. Many saw it as the end of the world, which in many cases was true.
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.
When I learned that I would have to do my ethnographic report on what I did during Halloween, I was worried because I live in Turnpike and the most excitement that happens in turnpike is the sound of the garbage truck when it comes to pick up the Wednesday trash. Fortunately something did happen to me and I realized I would not have to write a boring paper of how I woke up and just stayed in my room the whole day. Well the day started off with me waking up and walking to the bathroom to take a shower, as soon as the turned the water on I realized I had left my shower and rather than turning off my shower I stayed in because the warmth of the hot water was too seductive for me to get out and get my towel. In the shower I had my usual thoughts about life, death, and comebacks to old arguments. Afterword I got out of my shower and reached for my toothbrush, which was located in a cupboard behind the toilet, but I grabbed at it too quickly and it fell in the toilet. I stood over my toilet for about five minutes just staring at my toothbrush in the toilet not believing what just happened, after that I started blaming myself for being too impatient. When I was done feeling sorry for myself I went into my room in search of another toothbrush but unluckily I couldn’t find one, so I had to go walk to the local store at around 7:30 in search of a toothbrush. While searching for a replacement toothbrush I realized that not that many people were in the store, I had always thought that stores were busiest in the morning and evening but apparently that’s not true. Once I got my new toothbrush I finished brushing, got dressed and went to catch the 11 to the Transit Center.
Also known as Coccidioidomycosis, Valley fever infections have been on the rise in recent years. Endemic to the desert Southwest, valley fever is caused by the soil-dwelling fungus Coccidioides. The cocci get stirred up by building, drilling, tilling, and clearing land, and disperse due to dry, hot, windy conditions. The spores may be inhaled and are capable of embedding deep into the lungs.
After college I worked at a small local hospital as an EMT-Basic, and as a chemistry lab technician at a large corporate sand-mine. One afternoon, my mother (who was the head of safety at the sand-mine), came into my office and asked me to come talk to one of the workers (Joe, a family friend) who suddenly started feeling “weird”. Walking into the room where they had him sitting, I noticed that he looked very pale. I took his pulse and noticed that it was a little faint and that his skin was clammy. He kept insisting that it was food poisoning. I suggested that he should go to the hospital to get checked out. Quickly thereafter, he began slurring his words and failed to respond to my questions. His eyes started to glaze over and he was staring blankly into space. These were the textbook signs that lead up
As you exit the bus, another passenger next to you starts to cough, and then you hold the handrail as you exit the bus. Since you’re late getting home, you take a shortcut through a field to get home quicker. These three simple acts just exposed you to bacteria, viruses, and insects that could cause illness or even death. Infectious diseases, also known as communicable disease, are spread by germs. Germs are living things that are found in the air, in the soil, and in water. You can be exposed to germs in many ways, including touching, eating, drinking or breathing something that contains a germ. Animal and insect bites can also spread germs.1
My kids have had no childhood illnesses other than chickenpox, which they both contracted while still breastfeeding. They too grew up on a healthy diet, homegrown organics etc. Not to the same extent as I did, though, as I was not quite as strict as my mother, but they are both healthier than I have ever
What is viral infectious disease? Generally, viral infectious disease is contagious disease cause by the virus. Wide range of virus will cause viral infectious disease. Viral infectious disease had a very big impact on the practice of dentistry as viruses can spread easily in various routes of transmission, highly contagious and many prevention need to be taken in providing treatment to patient with viral infectious disease. Some of the famous and notable viruses will be in the family herpexviridae, paramyxoviridae, adenoviridae and retroviridae. However, in here, we will only focus on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
One fateful day at the end of June in 1998 when I was spending some time at home; my mother came to me with the bad news: my parent's best friend, Tommy, had been diagnosed with brain cancer. He had been sick for some time and we all had anxiously been awaiting a prognosis. But none of us were ready for the bumpy roads that lay ahead: testing, surgery, chemotherapy, nausea, headaches, and fatigue. Even loud music would induce vomiting. He just felt all around lousy.
The first instance was the beach. It was summer and I was fourteen years old. My step-father, his daughter, and I went to West Beach. I kept having this uncanny feeling of malevolent wrongdoing. These une...
When I first arrived “Lisa” The girl that I shadowed told me that there was an emergency with one of the animals. It ended up that a one-year-old beagle ate an entire thing of metabolite, and then slowly started to die. The liver had shut down, and the heart rate was up to 300. Lisa told me that taking a thing of metabolite was like taking 50 cups of coffee at once. The owners of the beagle were there and bowling. The beagle’s name was Murry. Murry's body slowly was shutting down one thing after another. The owners made the decision the dog was going to be put to sleep. We got the dog ready to be taken out. They undid all the cords from the dog so they could take it to another room. I said goodbye to the dog, and then they took it into the other room so that the owners could be there when they put him to sleep. After that happened they then had to put a sleep a little hedgehog that had cancer on its mouth. We then did two regular checkups with one cat and with one dog. Those when great. After that we had a dog come in and it ended up having an affection that might end up killing it. I never heard the end result. The last thing that I did there was that a black lab had been bitten by another dog, and that dog ripped a hole in the neck of the black lab. The doctors had to perform surgery on the dog to close up the holes in the neck. They first had to clean it out with qutips. And blood stated to come out right then I was a little dizzy and I thought I was going to faint. But thank god I didn’t. I saw a cat get dental work on it. And a cat get a bath and they had to blow dry it and brush the hair while it was a sleep.
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.
How to Survive a Plague (2012) is a documentary about the story of two coalitions, ACT-UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group). Both groups dedicate their time and energy to stop AIDS from being the deadly disease that it has been for years and is only getting worse. Those affected by the disease were primarily of the LGBT community. Those with AIDS struggled to see progress with research for a cure because of those who held leadership roles had in certain religious views along with a lack of political interest. As millions of individuals were dying from this abhorrent disease, the two coalitions continued to protest and advocate for change. Through their actions, an effective treatment was found for AIDS. Their actions even led to the LGBT community
Ebola Virus – A Bloody Killer The first doctor I saw told me it was malaria. Only in the special unit at the hospital, I was diagnosed with Ebola. I was isolated from other infected. None of us could sleep – we thought we would not make it to the morning.
Of course I didn't ask my mom or dad. Nobody shall know. October 26 1998, haven’t recorded in a while. I've been paying attention to the thing in my house, but today changes everything I don’t think we have one I think we have many. Today I go in the basement to see what is down there. I open a door labeled, CONCEALMENT CHAMBER. I open it anyway I find bones and organs in jars. I almost threw up. I had to be stealthy leaving the basement, I was told not to be down there by my parents order. I went to check in the attic that had a built in step ladder. I went up there and there was dead animal carcases as my body stimulate my body. As I steadily leave the attic after almost throwing up in the attic which was a closer call than the basement. I go in my room to write it down and on my wall it says fury. I have no clue why this thing is angry. October 31, 1998 It's Halloween and I am not ready to have this ghost pop out of nowhere and kill me and put my organs in the basement. I take precautions. I don’t have the audacity to capture this ghost. So I just go out trick or treating. I don’t want to come back with the house in flames but I have to go trick or