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Pandemics and what you need to know
Pandemics and what you need to know (2021)
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A pandemic occurs when a contagious disease spreads across the world causing serious illness.
What is a pandemic?
A pandemic is a new disease that can spread across the world causing serious illness to all people.
A pandemic is a new disease that can spread across the world causing serious illness to all people.
A pandemic is a new disease that can spread across the world causing serious illness to all people.
Throughout history, Governments have taken immediate action to minimise the spread of disease and create a possible solution, such as a vaccine.
During and after pandemics, education in schools and the community must teach preparation and precaution strategies and policy for immediate and future resolutions.
During and after pandemics, education in schools and the community must teach preparation and precaution strategies and policy for immediate and future resolutions.
Keep information updated
As new information is gathered, updating policies and approaches to dealing with a pandemic is the safest way to ensure citizens are informed and prepared. This helps people act appropriately and apply safety measures that suit a communities needs.
This may include
This may include
Government or community directed distribution of food to make sure every family has enough food.
Financial assistance.
Better access to sanitisation.
Financial assistance.
Better access to sanitisation.
A look into
Pandemics history
Leprosy
(11th Century)
(11th Century)
Bubonic plague
(1855)
(1855)
Measles
(1875)
(1875)
SARS
(2003)
(2003)
A slow-developing bacterial disease that caused sores and deformity that still harms thousands of people each year.
Leprosy-focused hospitals were made to tend to the large number of infected people.
Antibiotic medicine was created to treat it.
Leprosy-focused hospitals were made to tend to the large number of infected people.
Antibiotic medicine was created to treat it.
Initially spread through fleas causing headaches, chills, high fever, weakness, and swollen, tender and painful lymph nodes.
The most deaths were seen in India. This was due to its overpopulation that made social distancing almost impossible and as a result the disease was able to spread rapidly.
The most deaths were seen in India. This was due to its overpopulation that made social distancing almost impossible and as a result the disease was able to spread rapidly.
A disease caught by inhaling infected droplets (bodily fluid) that are sprayed into the air when an infected person talks, coughs or sneezes.
It killed entire villages who were unprepared.
Self-isolation and vaccination were the main preventions in battling the disease.
It killed entire villages who were unprepared.
Self-isolation and vaccination were the main preventions in battling the disease.
Severe respiratory problems were a main characteristic of this pandemic.
Global health professionals had a 'wake-up call' to improve their pandemic outbreak responses. Lessons learnt from this pandemic were used to keep other diseases under control.
Quarantine efforts proved effective at containing the disease.
Global health professionals had a 'wake-up call' to improve their pandemic outbreak responses. Lessons learnt from this pandemic were used to keep other diseases under control.
Quarantine efforts proved effective at containing the disease.