covered with a mass of foam peanuts. It was in a metal dispenser with a biohazard symbol. Paper towels soaked in bleach and plastic tubes in Ziploc bags 3. What happened to Peter Cardinal? Died in Nairobi hospital of unknown level 4 agent; possibly Marburg 4. What is the distinction between parasites and predators? Predators have the characteristic to become invisible to its prey during the quiet and sometimes lengthy stalk that precedes an explosive attack‚ while parasites are organisms that live
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Chronic & Communicable Diseases Objectives Discuss & give examples of chronic diseases. Define communicable diseases & explain their significance. Discuss disease transmission. Explain how communicable disease is transmitted by: a. intestinal discharges. b. nose & throat discharges. c. zoonoses (animals) Discuss the disease spread by vectors and their control measures. Environmental Impacts Paradigm: Exposure-Response (EIA : EHIA) Exposure - def: any condition
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1980 New Year’s Day From Mount Elgon in Kitum Cave‚ a virus first appears in Mr.Monet. Mr. Monet then goes to a hospital and exposes Dr.Musoke to the deadly disease. The virus is revealed to be Marburg by Dr.Silverstein‚ who sent samples to be examined at a research lab for special diseases. Marburg first appeared in an old city‚ in central Germany. Its first appearance was from a factory who shipped green monkeys to a different places that make vaccines from the kidney cells. The source of the
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Where it all began Taking many innocent lives And spreading quickly In Part One: The Shadow of Mt. Elgon‚ the author Richard Preston describes the initial interaction between humans and the Ebola virus. The first victim introduced in the book was Charles Monet‚ who worked on a sugar plantation in western Kenya. His exposure to the Ebola virus occurred on New Year’s day in 1980 while him and his woman "friend" ventured to Mount Elgon and visited the Kitum Cave. Kitum Cave is believed to be the
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Danger Signs • Main Symptoms • Nutritional Status • Immunization Status • Other Problems ❖ Cough or difficult breathing ❖ Diarrhea ❖ Fever ❖ Ear problems History-taking General Danger Signs Main Symptoms - Cough or difficult breathing - Diarrhea - Fever - Ear problems Nutritional Status Immunization Status Other Problems Assess for: • Respiratory rate • Lower chest wall in-drawing
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relation to Alexander ’s death. According to Plutarch‚ in a period of roughly 11-12 days before Alexander ’s death‚ his fever started as minor and progressed until he eventually died2. During this period he would bath during the day‚ and in the evening he would also bath and sacrificed and ate freely. During the night he had the fever. He would then send orders from his bedside. The fever eventually became violent and continued to grow. He soon became speechless. His army presumed he was dead after he
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* High fever (104F/40C)/ 3-4 days * Irritability and anorexia * Appearance of rash when there is a sharp drop in fever * Rash discrete rose-pink macules or maculopapules appearing first on trunk‚ then spreading to neck‚ face and extremities; nonpruritic‚ fades on pressure‚ lasts 1-2 days * Associated signs and symptoms: Cervical/postauricular lymphadenopathy‚ inflamed pharynx‚ cough‚ coryza * Therapeutic Management: * Antipyretics to control fever. *
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positive and negative in the story. His father and the doctors were necessary characters to reinforce the conflict and help develop the resolution of the story. ●A short story is not without a conflict. In this case‚ it is about the high fever of Schatz. Because he was ill‚ he felt no better. Thus‚ he was snobbish and disobedient. ●The climax is when Schatz was convinced that he was about to die‚ because he was told by some boys while he was in France that temperatures reaching
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chikungunya. Sandhi jwara which means ’pain in joints’ and this is one of the primary symptoms of chikungunya.CAUSE: The mosquitoes that cause infection due to the Chikungunya virus in Africa and Asia are the same mosquitoes that cause yellow fever and dengue fever in many parts of the world. Hence many parts of the world could be affected by the Chikungunya virus. Genetic analysis of the Chiungunya viruses reveal that there are two distinct types of the virus - one contains all isolates from western
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was sleeping started running a very high fever. He suddenly woke up from his nap screaming uncontrollably. I ran as fast as I could to his crib to see what was wrong. I leaned down to check him and I noticed his face was bright red and he was burning up with a fever. I grabbed him from the crib and carried him to my mom‚ who we were living with at the time. I left him in her capable hands so I could run into the bathroom to get some medicine for his fever. Just as I grabbed the medicine‚ my
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