Blog Thirteen 04/09

Module 5

The coronavirus pandemic is not the only one humanity has suffered. Spend some time for this class session learning about any other historical pandemic by doing self-guided research. What other pandemic can you find that has plagued humanity? Where did it strike? Why were people vulnerable to it? How long did it last? Did the people who experienced it learn anything from the experience / do anything differently afterwards? What were the long-term effects of it on human populations or on the planet? These questions are just to get you started. You do not need to answer them all, (but you can if that is helpful). Summarize what you learn in your blog post for April 9. My focus for module 9 will be about the AIDS pandemic. AIDS first spread in the  1900’s. It was spread into the United States in about the 1980’s and still continues to live on today without treatment. It’s harmful to humans because it’s an attack on the human immune system. It goes on and ruins the bodies ability to fight against other infections and diseases. It’s spread through human fluids like, semen, pre-seminal fluids, vaginal fluids, rectal fluids, blood, and breast milk. Having AIDS could last from anywhere from a few years, to a lifetime. From what it seems, there is medicines that help out with the disease, but nothing is out as a cure, also with the medicine, it’s very expensive to get so it almost leaves people unable to get it. When AIDS first became something that people were learning more and more about, they typically were those in a same sex relationship. Many were in those relations in secret so when they learned they had AIDS they were in total denial of it. It just brought on the attention of how it was spread and showed people that there were many other ways for it to be spread besides those in a same same relationship. 

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