Essays Tagged: "Yellow fever"
The Ebola Virus
ources. Ebola Sudan is less vurlent butstill kills almost 70% of all it's victims over 50%more then yellow fever which is considered to bevery deadly. Ebola Reston never infected any humanbeings only ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Ida B. Wells - Writer and Revolutionary for African Americans in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
d carpenter. When Ida was 14, she lost both her parents and three of her siblings to an epidemic of Yellow Fever.She went to Rust College, a school established by the Freedmen's Bureau to educate form ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Ebola Virus - information on the virus **School Essay**
rces. Ebola Sudan is less virulent but still kills almost 70% of all it's victims over 50%more then yellow fever which is considered to be very deadly. Ebola Reston never infected any human beings onl ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
This is an essay about Mary Church Terrell.
nto the black middle-class. After the Civil War, Robert opened a money making saloon and during the yellow fever outbreak of 1878-79 he, unlike many of Memphis residents, did not abandon his property. ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
Culture shock.
ring the 1970's submitted to no fewer than 27 shots as a protective measure against everything from yellow fever to hepatitis. Although he managed to avoid any dreaded tropical disease during his assi ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions
Mosquitoes.
ot a word about the grave diseases that could be caught from the mosquito: West Nile, encephalitis, yellow fever, dengue, malaria, etc. Despite an occasional case of malaria and yellow fever in non-tr ... nly is malaria a very popular mosquito infectious disease around the world, there is another called yellow fever. There are over 2700 species of mosquitoes, of course there has to be another disease!Y ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
"The Life and Times of Nathaniel Hawthorne"
dustry to pursue work in the stagecoach line. Four years after Hawthorne's birth his father died of yellow fever. Hawthorne's father never saw his youngest daughter, Maria Louise. Nathaniel Hawthorne ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
"Interpretation of A Narrative" analysis of an article (A Narrative) written by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen. Yellow Fever outbreak of 1793.
bsalom Jones and Richard Allen, two African American ministers who lived in Philadelphia during the Yellow Fever outbreak of 1793. The article functions as both a historical account of the epidemic, a ... rinted in the Philadelphia newspapers asking colored people to assist those who were suffering from yellow fever, and help to burry those who had died from it. According to the beliefs of the day, Afr ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History
Yellow Fever
Yellow FeverEtiologic AgentYellow fever is caused by an arbovirus, a small virus which belongs to th ... They are found near houses, jungles, and a combination of both environments.Characteristics of AgentYellow fever is a viral disease that has been responsible for large epidemics in both Africa and Sou ... ica and South America. The World Health Organization has estimated that a total of 200,000 cases of yellow fever occur each year, with 30,000 deaths. There are three general types of the transmission ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology
Diseases In 19th Century America
living conditions for the burgeoning middle class. Major epidemics were caused by such diseases as yellow fever, cholera, tuberculosis (TB), influenza, measles, scarlet fever, malaria, and diphtheria ... ve to see thirty from 1840-1870.Which diseases affected 19th century populations the most? Cholera, yellow fever, and influenza, malaria, TB, and smallpox had the most major epidemics in the United St ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Ida B. Wells
because her mother was a famous cook and her father was a carpenter. At age fourteen an epidemic of yellow fever killed her parents, she was left to care for her siblings. Ida always had a passion for ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Fever, 1793
nd a determined young woman. During the summer of 1793, her hometown of Philadelphia was invaded by Yellow Fever. But when her mother was infected with the horrible disease, she ordered Mattie and her ... f in a city turned frantic with disease.Although I never had a family member that was infected with Yellow Fever, I can still relate to some events that happened to Mattie. One of those events was whe ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"Fever: 1793". A review on the book by Laurie Halse Anderson.
In the Laurie Halse Anderson's suspenseful novel, "Fever: 1793", we see three key ways yellow fever impacted Mattie's family during the summer and fall of 1793. Mattie's world turn comple ... conclusion, the novel "Fever: 1793" is a suspenseful and thrilling novel! There are three key ways yellow fever had an impact on Mattie's family. Her world turns completely upside-down; she doesn't t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Positive and Negative Effects of European Expansion in N.America
ans were not immune to including small pox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, yellow fever, malaria and the scarlet fever. Devoid of natural resistance to these diseases, the Nat ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Mosquitoes Through History
ve ever lived on Earth. With the diseases these vectors transmit including dengue, encephalitis and yellow fever, the mosquito is responsible for millions of deaths every year. It is no surprise that ... creasing in frequency as new modes of transportation developed. In modern times, "airport cases" of yellow fever, encephalitis and malaria increased the potential spread of the diseases in North Ameri ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
The Panama Canal
sixty deaths from disease. In 1882 the number doubled. In 1883 the number rose to 420. Malaria and Yellow fever were the main killers. The company would usually lay-off employees with diseases to cut ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Human Health
s have emerged in the past 20 years. (1) The three diseases that I will be focusing on are malaria, yellow fever, and dengue fever. Malaria, yellow fever, and dengue fever are just a few of the health ... s "vectors," such as mosquitoes, that in turn spread infectious diseases. Malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever are some diseases that are likely to spread with warmer air temperature.A 3°C warmi ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Biological Warfare
ans, however, had known no such diseases before and were decimated by diseases such as smallpox and yellow fever. Entire tribes were wiped from the face of the earth during this time. Many times, the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Biological Warfare
ans, however, had known no such diseases before and were decimated by diseases such as smallpox and yellow fever. Entire tribes were wiped from the face of the earth during this time. Many times, the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Benedict Arnold, a Great General
manner. His family faced business debt, and two of his three sisters died as a result of malaria or yellow fever. Only Hannah, Benedicts younger sister remained. From the start, Benedict led a h ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars