Student Solution

-->

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
– Nelson Mandela

1 University

1 Course

1 Subject

Article 2 Discussion

Article 2

Q Article #2 due Monday 8/24 by 11:59pm Article #2 due Monday 8/24 by 11:59pm Dear Class : Please read p. 10 (starting with Historical Background) to p. 22 and respond to the following: 1. Why is it so difficult to determine where the influenza began? Why is it important? 2. Discuss the "waves" in 1918 to 1921 and speculate on waves in 2020. Are we through the first wave yet? When do you think the 2nd wave will come? 3. What were the age groups most devastated by the influenza on 1918? 4. What is "swine influenza?" Did we give it to the pigs or did they give it to us? Go to your browser and find at least one article on this and be sure to cite your research. 5. What is gene sequencing? Why is it important here? ( Do the best you can--highly technical reading ahead). 6. Describe the future work needed to understand the 1918 pandemic virus. 7. Why bother studying pandemics of the past? 8. Why were the elderly spared in the 1968 H3N2 pandemic virus? 9. Get the book Pandemic by Shah. 10. Citations please. PAM

View Related Questions

Solution Preview

It was very difficult at first to understand where this flu exactly started and later it was found that it started in France probably. Without knowing the place of origin it was hard to know the reason also why it started. Almost 500 million people were infected due to this flu pandemic between February 1918 to April 1920 and this was the first wave of the pandemic followed by the second one in 1921. In 2020 people are witnessing another pandemic situation which can be probably termed as the third wave.