The last man on earth sat in his room...when he heard a knock on the door. He had never imagined it would come to this. He was the last man on earth, and it was lonely. He slept lonely, ate lonely, dreamed lonely and breathed lonely. It seemed like only yesterday that paradise had all gone to pot... It had been on the news. Effecting only small amounts of people, in small parts of the world. Elderly, then children, then everyone. Not AIDS, not cancer, not even the cold. Zombies? Hardly...Aliens, we hoped. Religous sky god returning to take only his followers? dream on... No... It was much worse then that... It was all over the social networks and internet... ...and for one moment the world was not shitting kittens over gay marriage and who was on Muray. "Five die from skin eating bacteria" "Hospitals clueless" For once drugs and medience was not the answer. Had they ever been? But then again no one knew the answer. The outbreak hit third world countries and we didnt worry, It hit small parts of Europe and we didnt worry, Japan had mass deaths and we didnt worry. Florida saw its first case in the year 2043...and we worried. It was just the beginning of the end. The bacteria started off as it had before, Nursing homes, then schools, then children brought it home. Then everyone. No movie had prepaired us for the savage attack on our bodies that this bacteria brought. We prayed for a cure, we cursed god for a cure, and we swamped the hospitals for a cure. The Rich offered rewards, for anyone smart enough to make a cure. The poor killed others for a cure. For once money didnt talk. Not when your skin was desolving day after day. He still remembered the day his daugther had not felt well. "Its the flu" His wife assured... He still r... ... middle of paper ... ...en anything to be serious about...no one made it out of life alive right? Then it hit him... Why was HE alive... He had been exposed to countless bodies, those of loved ones and enemeys alike...small, large, medium and in between. He had never caught it. It seemed he wouldnt at this rate. The noise had been a dream at first. His mind was breaking finally, a happy delusion of the silly notions his cranium had potrayed to keep that small seed of hope alive. Then it happened again... Loud knocking... Strong knocking... Knocking?! He looked down the long hallway...at the door. Steel door...echoed as it sounded again Maybe he should answer that...the doorbell was obviously broken. Maybe... How much worse could it be? He could catch it... It could end... The last man on earth sat in his room...when he heard a knock on the door. ...so he opened it. Works Cited Mysellf
...influenza pandemic in one way or another; the use of quarantines were extremely prevalent among them. Also, the pandemic is directly responsible for the creation of many health organizations across the globe. The organizations help track and research illnesses across the globe. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) for example, strive to prevent epidemics and pandemics. They also provide a governing body with directives to follow in case an outbreak does occur, and if one shall occur the efforts of organizations across the globe will be crucial for its containment. It is amazing that with modern medicine and proper organization that influenza still manages to make its appearance across the globe annually.
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In the documentary, Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria, reporter David Hoffman investigates this new untreatable infection along two individuals and a bacterial virus within a hospital. The first individual Hoffman investigates is Addie Rerecich of Arizona, she was treated for a staph infection with antibiotics, but other complications arise. Addie had a lung transplant, she was given several different antibiotics, but her body became pan-bacteria, non-resistance to the bacteria. Addie’s life was on the edge, she had to be on life support, and finally she received new lungs. The transplant helped Addie but it would take years before could go back to normal before the infection. The second individual is David Ricci; he had his leg amputated in India after a train accident. The antibiotic treatment he received became toxic to his body increasing problems. While in India, he underwent surgery almost every day because of infections he was developing. Back in Seattle, doctors found the NDM-1 resistance gene in his body; NDM-1 gene is resistance to almost all antib...
This lead to the demise of the population when the disease was transported through the heart of an infected man. Once the doctors completed the heart transplant, the man came to life with the generic grey blood and he was much more hostile.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Not only are the descriptions of cases terrifying, but McKenna’s word choice provides the fuel for the fire. The book uses phrases that sound as if they were pulled directly out of a Contagion sequel, such as a rare subcategory of MRSA that manifests as a “flesh eating disease.” “Cloud babies,” is a name given to infected newborns that are capable of spreading MRSA throughout hospital nurseries by shedding the bacteria on microscopic particles,. These erie definitions and surreal scientific evidence work in conjunction with McKenna’s knack for storytelling to paint a picture of the next big
I opened the door to the garage, instantly the smell of death filled my nose. I looked around the garage, looking for that stupid man. I spotted him in a chair, slumped, by the staircase. How dare he be so upset.
Almost no one on Earth has any immunity at all to this virus, which makes ordinary vaccines useless against it. The sudden spread of the virus into Europe foreshadows an epidemic development that could be worldwide. Ultimately, there is no way to protect ourselves against epidemics. They will keep disappearing and coming back in new forms.
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In short, the book 'Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History' explains the dynamism, the changing interactions between humans and microbes, and the way and extent to which these interactions have influenced the human cultural history. This book is very useful because it tell us that we must strive to understand what makes microbes successful as we are faced with unrelenting microbial drug resistance. Microbes mutate to fatal human pandemics and it’s for this reason that we need to adopt a microbe centric world views.
The Government and Politicians didn’t really care. Most of them ignore it and waited for the last minute. Others, like the President Ronald Regan spent more money on war supplies and other stuff, than helping the CDC find a cure. They were only given a certain limited space, no money, and outdated equipment.
“But how did it come to this?” you’re probably asking yourself. Humans may have been studying antibiotics, but so were bacteria – and they’ve b...
“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’
In the short story, The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury, a man who has a dream about the world coming to an end. As the man proceeds with discussing the dream with his wife, they are both surprised at their own actions and reactions to accepting the reality of discovering the world is coming to an end that night resulting in their own immediate deaths. Remarkably he discovers that everyone has had the same dream and the dream has accepted the real event. In the remaining hours of being alive, the man and his wife do discuss the reasons why life might be ending, what they had done to deserve this fate, how they feel about the end and what do they want to do on their last night alive. As every second, minute, and hour passes on the clock,
...gests that the world is on the brink of a post-antibiotic era as the numbers of resistant bacteria (superbugs) proliferate, and there is an increase in the number of people dying from previously treatable infections. Todar, (n.d) states, “Society could be faced with previously treatable diseases that have become again untreatable, as in the days before antibiotics were developed.”