Module 5

While the world has not been shy of pandemics throughout the years, it doesn’t make the fear of not knowing any easier. It’s still concerns our overall health and is a literal matter of life or death. Still, with no official certainty from professionals who are on the frontlines combatting this disease, many instances of pandemics manage to parallel one another from previous global crisis.

When H1N1 first surfaced in the early 1900s, many people believe that the cause was due to human contamination and contracting it through one another. It was later discovered that the disease was spread through birds. Although no specific species or origin was confirmed as to where it all started. Nearly 1/3 of the world was infected resulting in nearly 50 million global deaths. While COVID-19 is specified as being more prevalent in older people, people who already have pre existing health conditions, or compromised immune systems, anyone could contract H1N1, including toddlers and young adults. During this time when there was no cure, people also had to quarantine and stay healthy as well.

In the 1950s, another disease that was first noticed in Eastern Asia surface known as H2N2. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “This H2N2 virus was comprised of three different genes from an H2N2 virus that originated from an avian influenza A virus, including the H2 hemagglutinin and the N2 neuraminidase genes. “ Like H1N1, the spread of the disease were traced back to my birds. Cases in the beginning of 1957 were reported in Hong Kong and Singapore and eventually spread throughout the world, reaching the United States by the summer of that year.


Often during times like these, we feel helpless and can feel like things are out of our control. But if we abide by things like following the shelter-in-place orders, being mindful of our hygiene, and not being selfish, we can see greater progress and faster results of clearance. While we have more resources to ensure our safety unlike earlier times, we still have to be mindful and not so reckless and oblivious to the fact that people can die from this or we could be harming someone classified in the at-risk groups of people.

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