It's the year 2045, just 5 years ago a crazy case of yellow fever broke out across the United States. Scientists created a serum that kills all the mosquitoes who carry the disease, but the solution had some backlash. The way they kill the mosquitoes is by spraying the serum out of huge airplanes and onto the land below. Which means people eventually inhale the serum. But what scientist did not know is that all the people that have the blood type A, B and, O completely forget who they are, where they are and, get very violent for a period of 3 hours, when they inhale the serum, creating chaos every other day when they spray more of the serum down to keep the disease from coming back. Since this has happened everyone with the blood type A,B …show more content…
But the thing about that is when the baby goes back for more check ups the pediatrician doesn't check its blood type since they assume the baby got it checked when it was born. If that baby does have the blood type A, B or O the serum will not affect them until they turn 5 years old. See when i was born i got a lazy doctor and wasn't taken away even though i have blood type O. My name is Brooklyn Jones and i am very fortunate that i had a lazy doctor. But my Mom, Dad and brother Alec are even more fortunate because they all have blood type AB. Since i was 5 all i have ever known is racing home from school every other day so that my parent can lock me up before the serum gets sprayed out of the airplanes. On my fifth birthday i was sick with the flu. I was lying in bed watching tv when i couldn't remember where i was, who i was and, had a strong urge to hurt someone. I remember my mom tackling me to the ground and locking me up in the bathroom. I stood pounding at the door for what seemed like hours until my memory came back to me and my mother let me out. I'm fifteen now and everyday i wish i could be bloodtype AB like my family members. I wish i could play soccer after school with my friends, not that i have many, or go out shopping on the weekends but my life doesn't consist of …show more content…
My brother was watching with me. “Alec, what does this mean for me?”, i said. “It means that we need to leave town, Alec said, and i think dad knows someone who can help us”. The next day i woke up and went downstairs to eat some breakfast. On the kitchen there was a not from my mom saying that her dad and Alec had gone shopping for our trip out of town and there was a checklist for what i needed to pack. Most of it was just essential things like toothpaste and a toothbrush. Later that day the rest of my family came home carrying loads of bags. One of the bags my dad was carrying had a chain and a lock in it. Easy to imagine what that was for. Then i started packing. First with clothes then with things like deodorant and a hairbrush and finally my journal. I have been journaling since i was around 9 just because i like to look back on my life and also because my life is so different then others. Its the night we are leaving. I put my bags by the
...Organization summed it up best by stating “yellow fever is still considered to be a public health emergency of international concern,” (Yellow Fever WHO).
○ ABO incompatibility. People with an O blood type have antibodies that can attack blood cells in type A or B blood. If a mother 's blood type is O and her baby 's blood type is A or B, her antibodies may destroy the baby 's red blood cells and cause hemolytic disease.
The following is a case study of a female Jane, a multiparous, gravida two, parity one, 30 year-old woman who has recently moved from rural Africa to Australia at 36 weeks gestation into her pregnancy. Jane has a rhesus negative blood type and the concern for Jane and her baby is how the incompatibility of the rhesus factors in each of their blood and what this may cause after giving birth to a Rhesus positive first child in rural Africa 3 years ago. Rhesus negative blood is a minority blood group common in between 12-18% of European, North American and Australian Caucasians and only 2-5% of Janes’ African heritage are Rhesus negative. (SA Maternal and Neonatal Clinical Network 2010). The implication of rhesus negative blood is when the fetus
Swine flu is a disease that has placed a burden on humanity for many years. The virus of swine flu has a very intriguing history as well. Swine flu had originated from the first influenza pandemic in 1918. The actual swine flu virus had come from a pig in Iowa in 1931. Two years later a human strand of swine flu was found in London for the very first time. This was later followed by the Hong Kong flu pandemic in 1968 which had killed up to one million people worldwide. Many years after these pandemics had occurred, the first cases of swine flu were found in California and Texas in March of 2009. This pandemic killed 25,174 people who were infected with swine flu. A couple of months later, the United States and the United Kingdom began testing people for the swine flu and started vaccination programs. Swine flu has had a long history and has taken a large number of lives in the past with worldwide pandemics. As a result, countries like the United States started to take measures toward vaccination. The virus has many different ways of being transmitted, signs and symptoms, areas of the world it infects, and treatment plans.
Even with this breakthrough discovery, it was not until after World War II that serious action plans were implemented. On the global scale, a global eradication program was started in 1955 by the World Health Organization, also stated in the “Malaria: The Persistence of Disease” article previously mentioned. The program was not a full success, since areas like Africa remained a prominent issue to tackle. This program was also not a total failure, since a majority of continents had seen the effects of malaria minimized. At a more local level, the Communicable Disease Center was established in Atlanta in 1946 with its top priority being the complete elimination of malaria from southern states. In only five years, this mission became a reality. According to the article from TheScientist, drainage of swamps, managing mosquito breeding and increased usage of pesticides were main reasons for such immediate
My mom had been going to school in Greeley and staying at my Aunt Margaret's house . She had been away for two weeks and wanted to come home for the Fourth of July weekend. My mom had suggested that I go back with her and visit colleges, shop, go to movies and just spend time together. I had been feeling pretty sorry for myself since she had been gone. I had been working alot as a maid and helping my dad run the house, I was getting very irritated with my siblings as I felt that I was the only family member doing my part to help my dad. I was really excited to have a week with my mom to myself. The whole ride over we were talking about what I wanted to do that week. Making plans and having "me time" seemed very important at the time.
my coat and told my mum I was leaving, she said wait, so I came back
Mosquitos in Sudan are a major issue to many people there today and were an issue in Salvas time. The southern half of Sudan is a yellow fever area where many people are affected by this sickness which can be delivered through mosquitos. In South Sudan mosquitos are fatal too many people. Yellow fever is a horrible disease spread by certain species of mosquitoes causing damage to your internal organs like the liver. In Salva’s story, they are attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes during the evening after their meal. There are not many hospitals in the area of South Sudan to treat diseases such as yellow fever therefore many people live through painful death,(about 200,000 per year). Another disease given off by parasites, particularly mosquitoes,
September 17, 2002, my mom gave birth to Nafia Maire Carter Colson Blackshear.My grandmother named me because my mom was going to name me Aderiyah Yashera. She was happy that I was not born with Down syndrome. But we did have to stay a week after I was born because I had I yellowish pigment to my skin known as Jaundice. Then 2 years later my mom gave birth to my little brother on September 18, 2004, almost born on my second birthday he was also born with Jaundice and has asthma. Then 8 years later my little sister was born on September 13, 2012, she was also born with Jaundice she had it the worst and she also had problems with her head that she could've had surgery on her head but thankfully she grew out of it and is doing better. The crazy
The reason mosquitos and ticks retract the virus is because they feed on monkeys carrying the virus. Since it is carried by insects that feed on human blood, the disease is then transmitted to humans. Because these insects accumulate the virus and are usually around the common people, they spread the Yellow Fever disease to the people residing in the areas as well as travelers who end up taking the viral infection with them back to their home country where the disease does not normally reside and where a possible epidemic may occur besides the one already happening in the area it comes from (Monath 162). Certain beginning symptoms involve fever, muscle pain, back pain, headaches, bleeding, vomiting, etc. (WHO 1) In the “toxic phase” however, people develop the yellowing of skin and eyes known as “jaundice”, dark urine, and more vomiting. (WHO 1). After that stage, about half of patients die in the duration of 7-10 days as their livers and kidneys stop
Yellow fever is an acute disease meaning that it can be hard to cure however many people have found ways we as humans can at least prevent the disease by just being really precautious of what insects are surrounding you . Since Yellow fever there hasn’t been any treatment that we know of the doctor at least try to easing on the symptoms just like the common cold it has the similar symptoms of the yellow fever such as muscle pain and dehydration. Because of the risk of internal bleeding the person that may think they have yellow fever should avoid some medication that contains nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory
Ebola is a critical disease that has recently spread the country of West Africa. We have also had a few cases in the United States. Ebola is a deadly disease that cannot be contained. As of November 20, 2014 the total number of cases in West Africa is 15,113 (1). There have been a total of 5,406 deaths in the West African outbreak (1). This outbreak has lasted from March 1st, 2014 until the present (1). Scientists across the globe have been working hardly to find a cure for this raging epidemic and this deadly disease. They attempted to make a serum, by which is called ZMapp (15). This serum is made out of engineered antibodies that are used to attempt to fight off the disease without being altered by the disease (15). Scientists have
Tomorrow the movers were coming. I was scared and happy at the same time. Most of my fragile things were already bubble wrapped. I was pacing around my room trying to think of anyhting I forgot to do.
My mother's green eyes held excitement and wonder as she also held on the swing side pole, just the other one. On her right wrist was a bracelet my father
My mom woke me the following morning. She had decided to bring me breakfast in bed...