The article I read was about a recent health issue that hasn’t been seen in awhile due to the invention of protective agents, and the reason this is brought up is because it has claimed its first victim in California over the weekend. The illness? Salmonella. The outbreak is linked to a group of cucumbers grown in Mexico and has sickened hundreds. The issue has been reported in 27 states thus far, with one fatality and 285 diagnosed. Arizona has suffered the largest hit as they have reported 66 of the 285 cases and the department of public safety has tried to make awareness for it. Children and infants are most at risk due to young immune systems that are still developing, and those who have eaten the cucumbers or pickles are urged to see a doctor is signs show up.
This could relate to an issue in the Americas that happened awhile ago. In the beginning, the Americas were prosperous and full of healthy natives, that is, until the Europeans came. When the Europeans came, they brought food, livestock, and religion, but they also brought disease. This can be easily relatable to the article I read as both have foreign countries bringing a disease into a country that undergoes and outbreak of sed disease. This type of situation is not uncommon. It has occurred multiple times in our history, most recently (and popularly known) would be the Ebola outbreak that was contained in the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital. Although it didn’t affect a wide range of people, it is still, yet another disease brought into the Americas by a third party, that ends up affecting the population.
There is no real way to control these situations other than closer and more careful border control and international inspections at airports and docks. In both societies, the native American and modern American, we have suffered through many similarities, as it truly is understood that history repeats itself.
SOURCE:http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/04/health/arizona-salmonella-outbreak/?iid=ob_homepage_showcase_pool&iref=obnetwork
This could relate to an issue in the Americas that happened awhile ago. In the beginning, the Americas were prosperous and full of healthy natives, that is, until the Europeans came. When the Europeans came, they brought food, livestock, and religion, but they also brought disease. This can be easily relatable to the article I read as both have foreign countries bringing a disease into a country that undergoes and outbreak of sed disease. This type of situation is not uncommon. It has occurred multiple times in our history, most recently (and popularly known) would be the Ebola outbreak that was contained in the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital. Although it didn’t affect a wide range of people, it is still, yet another disease brought into the Americas by a third party, that ends up affecting the population.
There is no real way to control these situations other than closer and more careful border control and international inspections at airports and docks. In both societies, the native American and modern American, we have suffered through many similarities, as it truly is understood that history repeats itself.
SOURCE:http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/04/health/arizona-salmonella-outbreak/?iid=ob_homepage_showcase_pool&iref=obnetwork
People in modern day society believe that we are untouchable. That epidemics such as the Black Plague and polio could never touch us. Outbreaks like this prove us wrong. Modern medicine has indeed improved since these illnesses have swept the world, but situations like the one addressed above exposes the fact that we are never prepared.
ReplyDeleteShara Jeyarajah
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ReplyDeleteThese epidemics are very scary, because it is very hard to control them. Epidemics can be very isolated at first, but people travel the world and bring them back to america, and this causes problems. Old diseases get new strands, super-bugs arrive, The uncontrollableness of disease is very scary.
ReplyDeleteAndrew Keith Smith
it's crazy how history can seem to repeat itself. These epidemics are a very difficult thing to control, no matter what time we're in.
ReplyDeleteMaddie Hanratty/ 8th period/ 2nd comment
ReplyDeleteThe difference between the Europeans of the 1500/1600s and the public of today is that the Europeans viewed the diseases they brought to Native Americans as a blessing. They were thankful that God had cleared some of the way for them to establish, without being bothered by the Indians. Today, people risk their lives in foreign third world countries treating people they may not have anything in common with culturally. To me, despite the fact that we are still not immune to all illnesses, at least modern times have granted us the decency to come together and fight whatever is plaguing us (quite literally) worldwide.
Epidemics like this usually spread quickly and can become worldwide. It takes lots of work to find a cure also especially when it spreads so fast
ReplyDeleteIt is very interesting how history repeats itself. In today's day and age we should be able to learn from our history. Although some of these things are slightly unavoidable, we should be more efficient in crushing the problem at its source.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how the food got infected in the first place... It's so strange how something as minuscule as a bacteria cell can become a threat to so many people. - Sophie Kurzius, 8th period
ReplyDeleteIts so sad that you really can't prevent things like this, once the products are out. Its contagious diffusion. once one person has purchased the produce, that person could've shared it with 2 other people while eating, and just other things like that. I hope that the people who are getting affected, are being cured.
ReplyDelete-Carrington Whigham