Jordyn Chapman- Flesh eating bacteria infection kills man in four days

Summary: On September 11, while in Ocean City, Michael Funk came in contact with a flesh eating bacteria. He was cleaning crab pots before returning to Phoenix and a cut on his leg was exposed to the bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus. Days later, the effects hit him and he was covered in lesions. His wife informed the newspaper. “The bacterium can invade the bloodstream, causing a severe and life-threatening illness with symptoms like fever, chills, decreased blood pressure (septic shock) and blistering skin lesions,” according to the Florida Department of Health’s vibriosis page. Doctors indeed diagnosed the vibriosis and amputated his leg in an atempt to save him, but he died four days later on September 15. A recent study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that “rising ocean temperatures related to global warming “is strongly associated with spread of vibrios, an important group of marine prokaryotes, and emergence of human diseases caused by these pathogens.” To determine the growth, they researches used various collections of plankton to find out how prevalent the microorganisms were. In conclusion, there was a relationship between the vibrio in numbers as well as cases that effect humans and a large cause was due to heat. “So in sum, it’s more evidence supporting [coral reef scientist Jeremy] Jackson’s point: We don’t just damage the oceans with impunity. Rather, from harm to fisheries to direct human health threats, that damage hurts us, too," Chris Mooney wrote.
Analysis: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., a general assinment reporter for The Washington Post, created this article on October 23, 2016. It was written for the general american audience and even those outside of the country giving a thought provoking influence. The article was written to cause awareness of global warming's effect on humans (which ironically is caused by human activities.) The point the article is trying to convey is that if we don't stop and look at what we're doing to the earth, worse things are to come.
Synthesis- This article can be connected to the smallpox epidemic in colonial america and how the increase in the number of cases caused a increase in fear.

Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/10/23/like-something-out-of-a-horror-movie-flesh-eating-bacteria-infection-kills-man-in-four-days/?tid=pm_national_pop_b