There have been 18 confirmed cases of the West Nile Virus in 2015. This Tuesday‚ the first death by West Nile Virus has been reported in Los Angeles County. The San Gabriel Valley man was hospitalized in late August‚ and had pre-existing health conditions besides the virus. His name was withheld by the county Department of Public Health. First Death Confirmed It was also announced Tuesday that the city of Long Beach had its first human West Nile virus infection‚ names and identifying details also
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the Zika virus? How it has being a huge epidemic in South America‚ especially in Brazil and neighboring states and countries. A next generation threat has surface and we are not even ready for the outcome of the vicious virus. The Aedes aegypti mosquitos is the most common to carry these virus. The virus started slow with everyone doctors thinking that this was going to die out on its own. They were wrong in many ways. It was first discovered in nine forty seven in Uganda’s Zika forest. But since
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nationalgeographic.com‚n.d.) Introduction Malaria is a common infection‚ which mostly affects people inhabiting hot regions within the tropics (Mandal‚ 2013). The illness is from a parasite of the plasmodium species‚ which is Anopheles mosquito (Marcus‚ 2009). The mosquito bites an infected person and later infects another person by biting him or her (Mandal‚ 2013). Malaria is a killer disease responsible for approximately death of 1 million people annually. The infected person usually becomes feeble
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DT - To Spray or Ban? An Historical Ethical Dilemma August 14‚ 2010 Malaria Malaria is a blood disease caused by the bite of a mosquito. In South Africa‚ it caused over 2.7 million deaths a year (Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory‚ 2010). There is no known vaccine that can cure malaria. The only solution is to eradicate the cause- the mosquito. A scientist named Dr. Paul Herman Muller made an insecticide-DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) in 1939. Although he was not the
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Symptoms and causes ‚ 2011) The female Anopheles mosquito is the one that most people get the disease from. The disease can be transmitted through blood transfusion‚ organ transplant‚ or any connection with blood. (Malaria Symptoms and causes ‚ 2011) I think that the best methods of protection against Malaria are Doxycycline and Taking anti malaria medications for malaria prophylaxis. This can help stop the disease from spreading. Even though mosquito nets can be used to stop or slow down Malaria‚
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affect the appearance‚ it affects the body’s function‚ and more. Not all birth defects can be dangerous but some can lead to death and some can be fixed with surgery. A deathly birth defect is Zika virus‚ zika virus is caused by a certain mosquito. The mosquito bites people and they then have the virus but most people don’t even know that they have it‚ so when a male or female with the virus decides to have a baby that baby will then have the virus that will cause a birth defect. A baby with zika
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Sickle cell anemia is a blood disorder that affects the 11th chromosome which is a hemoglobin gene. Hemoglobin is a protein located in red blood cells (RBCs) that carries oxygen through the body. This disorder is inherited from two parents with abnormal genes that are heterozygous (Rr). This means that both parents who have the trait may pass on the disorder to their offspring. The phenotype makeup is recessive. Those who inherit a normal copy of the chromosome 11 and a mutated chromosome will carry
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is caused when thread-like filarial parasites are transmitted to humans through mosquitoes. There are three forms of the parasites which are Wuchereria bancrofti‚ Brugia malayi and Brugia timorican. The most common is Wuchereia bancrofti. When the mosquito bites the human‚ it injects the larvae into the blood stream which then circulates into the lymphatic system. The parasites can live up to six years in a human. The disease is most common in tropical areas and sub-tropical areas such as mid-Africa
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their in the stages of becoming and adult mosquito. Even though Salt Marsh Mosquitoes spend most of their life in water the eggs are laid in moist soil by shorelines. This resulting in when the shore rise it will trigger the eggs to hatch accordingly . ( Argamonte 2017 ) “ Egg hatching depends on flooding by rainfall or tides; however‚ once this occurs‚ larval development proceeds rapidly. ” this was a quote from Featured Creatures : Black Salt Marsh Mosquito. These insects spread diseases‚ populate
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Acknowledgements ………………………………………………………...1 Introduction………………………………………………………………....2 Disease Types…………………………………………………………….…3 Disease Treatment and Control……………………………………………..3 Vectors and the transmission of diseases………………………………...…4 Life Stages of Housefly/Mosquito……………………………………….…4 Control Methods for the life stages of a vector ………………………........5 Transmission and control of A.I.D.S and Gonorrhea…………………...….5 Role of the blood in defending against disease …………………………....6 Immunization – the control of communicable
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