A cruise ship Celebrity Infinity left San Diego on March 29th and made its last stop in Mexico on April 10th due to a sickness that caught on to over 200 on board. The sickness was gastrointestinal illness according to the Centers of Disease Control. The CDC called for more sanitizing and cleaning procedures as soon as they heard about the outbreak. This illness was caused by norovirus which has also had outbreaks in 2006 and 2013. The ship is scheduled to come back to San Diego on Tuesday.
This outbreak is so horrible because these people aboard were simply just wanting to have a good time on a cruise with their family or friends. They weren't expected to become deathly ill with this illness. This outbreak of illness made me relate all the way back to the Bubonic Plague and how that killed so many people in years past. Although this disease on the cruise wasn't as impactful, the CDC still wanted to do what they could in order for it to shrink and not become as huge as the Plague.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/travel/feat-cruise-ship-sick-celebrity-infinity/index.html
Olivia Lambert 3rd Period
This is rather sad but the bubonic plague has nothing to do with American history, unless you connect it to immigration years later in some way
ReplyDeleteThe bubonic plague did have something to do with American History because it lead to rapid immigration to a safer environment. At the time that safer environment was America.
ReplyDelete-Rachel Webb 3rd Pd
The bubonic plague happened during the Middle Ages, hundreds of years before even the discovery of the American continent. A more apt synthesis would be to the Spanish Flu, which affected many more people during a time when the US was already struggling with immigration.
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