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Chad Davidson

Canadian Red Cross cholera treatment centre -- Haiti - YouTube - 0 views

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Cholera Disease Youtube Redcross Haiti

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  • Chad Davidson on 21 Apr 14
     
    A view of a Red Cross Cholera Treatment centre, used in Haiti.
Chad Davidson

The Cholera Tree of Life (and Death) - Phenomena - 0 views

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Cholera Disease HistoryChannel Diagram

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  • Chad Davidson on 21 Apr 14
     
    An article about the epidemic in Haiti, featuring a diagram showing how cholera has managed to survive since ~1937.
Gage DuVall

The Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 - 1 views

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epidemic fever Disease

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  • It was the summer of 1793 and a ghastly epidemic of Yellow fever gripped the largest city of America and the nation’s capital. Samuel Breck, a newly arrived merchant to Philadelphia and later instructor to the blind, observed “the horrors of this memorable affliction were extensive and heart rending.” Samuel Breck estimated that the number of deaths in 1793 by yellow fever was more than four thousand. Modern scholars estimate the number to be closer to five thousand, a tenth of the capital’s fifty thousand residents. However, twenty thousand people, including Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and much of the federal government had fled the city to escape the fever thereby making proportion of deaths among those who remained quite high. What could cause such a devastating epidemic to occur on Pennsylvania soil?
  • Yellow fever is an acute, infectious, hemorrhagic (bleeding) viral disease transmitted by the bite of a female mosquito native to tropical and subtropical regions of South America and Africa. However, it wasn’t discovered that Yellow Fever was transmitted by mosquitoes until 1881. At the time, Yellow Fever was a well known illness that affected sailors who travelled to the Caribbean and Africa characterized by disquieting color changes including yellow eyes and skin, purple blotches under the skin from internal bleeding and hemorrhages, and black stools and vomit, all of which were accompanied by a high fever.
  • In 1793, people of the French Caribbean colony of Saint Domingue (now Haiti) were fleeing a revolution from France and thousands of infected individuals landed at the Philadelphia docks. This combined with the dry, hot summer and low water tables of 1793 created the perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes and the spread of Yellow Fever.
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      Caden Lewis on 16 Apr 14
       
      Good facts of the History of Yellow fever
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  • African Americans played a vital role in the epidemic of 1793. Rush pleaded for the help of Philadelphia’s free black community, believing that African Americans were immune to the disease. African Americans worked tirelessly with the sick and dying as nurses, cart drivers, coffin makers, and grave diggers. Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, religious leaders who would later go on to found the first black churches of Philadelphia, African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, and African Methodist Episcopal Church, respectively, described their experience as volunteers in 1793: “at this time the dread that prevailed over people’s minds was so general, that it was a rare instance to see one neighbor visit another, and even friends when they met in the streets were afraid of each other, much less would they admit into their houses.” This was not the only horror that Absalom Jones and Richard Allen observed. They observed horrendous behavior from the fearful citizens of Philadelphia: “[Many white people]…have acted in a manner that would make humanity shudder.” Despite Dr. Rush’s theory, 240 African Americans died of Yellow Fever.
  • jaxson dillard on 21 Apr 14
     
    the helpers of the virus.
Stefani Hudson

cholera -- Britannica School - 0 views

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cholera prevention vaccines

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  • Cholera is spread when people eat food or drink water that has been contaminated with the cholera bacterium. Shellfish and other seafood, especially if eaten raw, are a frequent culprit in this illness. Other foods that commonly transmit cholera are fruits and vegetables that are grown in contaminated soil or washed in contaminated water. Cholera frequently occurs in countries that do not have modern facilities for treating water before people can drink it or wash with it.
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      Stefani Hudson on 16 Apr 14
       
      This is how it works
  • If untreated, the patient may die within a few hours.
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  • By April 2013, more than 650,000 cases of cholera had been reported in Haiti, resulting in more than 8,000 deaths.
Stefani Hudson

Cholera Definition - Diseases and Conditions - Mayo Clinic - 0 views

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definition diseases conditions history fever death Cholera plague

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  • DefinitionBy Mayo Clinic Staff Cholera is a bacterial disease usually spread through contaminated water. Cholera causes severe diarrhea and dehydration. Left untreated, cholera can be fatal in a matter of hours, even in previously healthy people. Modern sewage and water treatment have virtually eliminated cholera in industrialized countries. The last major outbreak in the United States occurred in 1911. But cholera is still present in Africa, Southeast Asia, Haiti and central Mexico. The risk of cholera epidemic is highest when poverty, war or natural disasters force people to live in crowded conditions without adequate sanitation. Cholera is easily treated. Death results from severe dehydration that can be prevented with a simple and inexpensive rehydration solution.
  • Chad Davidson on 16 Apr 14
     
    The definition of Cholera.
  • Stefani Hudson on 21 Apr 14
     
    here is another pretty good site
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