Community Outbreak of Communicable Disease

Community Outbreak of Communicable Disease:
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Introduction
Mobility of human population diseases usually spread quickly across the world if prevention initiatives are not taken. At the same time, the changes in vaccination practices across the healthcare sector have resulted in increase in the spread of infectious diseases which initially were believed to be under control. The situation has presented global health concerns among community health officials. For instance, a larger population of United States community experiences impacts of the outbreak of influenza virus thus worsening their health condition. The World Health Organization report and the information received from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that the influenza virus has presented a significant impact on the global population with directly affects on standards of world population health. The Arkansas city in the state of America experiences the impact of the outbreak of this virus thus placing the city in a critical health situation especially on the ill-health individuals.
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Description of Outbreak
The World Health Organization report indicates that the first influenza outbreak was experienced in 1918. The virus killed about 50 million people across the world, thus being recorded as the deadliest disease attack that attacked about one-fifth of the world population. Millions of infected people died without even critical or severe illnesses (Ahrens, 2014). The first outbreak phase of the disease started in the spring of 1918. The three-day fever appeared without health warning resulting in the death of many individuals. The second phase of the disease was severe and painful that could be identified with distinguished symptoms in a patient. The root cause of the disorder could not be identified by the healthcare practitioners, doctors, and scientists and therefore stressed the treatment procedure.
Many countries have suffered the impacts of influenza diseases with millions of patients dying without even receiving initial treatment. The outbreak was not limited to a specific country or region, but everyone across the world was at risk of getting the virus infection. In 1957, the influenza outbreak killed approximately one million people around the world, starting with China but spreading across other regions in the world (World Health Organization, 2018). Another outbreak occurred in 1968, which killed about 1.3 million people. However, the outbreak concentrated in rural regions of America, especially in the Northwest States. The disease mostly affected children and young adults as well as the aged in society. 25 percent of the United States population was affected by the virus, thus lowering the region’s life expectancy by 12 years in a single year.
The Arkansas chief medical officer alerted the citizens in the outbreak of the flu, thus initiating the healthcare providers to remain cautious over the influenza outbreak. The United States was among the countries that recorded the highest rate of the outbreak of the flu during this period, a situation that had not been experienced before. The healthcare department was responsible for providing reliable information a...