Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is a chronic heart condition that accounts for approximately 2% of all cardiovascular mortalities worldwide. It is most prevalent in developing countries where the actual disease burden is higher due to overcrowding‚ poverty and the lack of sufficient health care. The indigenous people of Australia and New Zealand‚ Africa and south-central Asia are at the greatest risk of suffering this disease. “The average annual incidence of acute rheumatic fever in children aged
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Cat Scratch Disease Sarah Hall Section 321 Professor Augustin June 20‚ 2011 Cat scratch disease is a bacterial infection that causes the swelling of lymph nodes‚ due to a scratch‚ lick‚ or bite of a cat. Forty percent of cats carry the bacteria in their saliva at some point in time in their lives. Cats that carry the disease usually do not show any signs of illness. Most people contract the disease after being scratched or bitten. More than 90% of people who contract it had contact with cats
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Argumentative Essay; Global Infectious Diseases The risk of catching a disease that originates from across the world increases as the world’s technology and travel advances. The problem is‚ is that we can’t stop ourselves from getting a disease or stop traveling. Another factor is that it may not be something that can be cured and it may be contagious. The results of global deaths that come from infectious diseases are 25%. One solution is to develop a vaccine and/or other products to prevent
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As we all know‚ there are hundreds of medically diagnosed diseases. Ranging from skeletal‚ muscular‚ pulmonary‚ neurological‚ integumentary‚ autoimmune‚ blood borne‚ etc. Degenerative Joint Disease (DJD) is one of the many diseases pertaining to the skeletal system. You may have also heard of osteoarthritis‚ wear and tear arthritis‚ or degenerative arthritis. This is the most common type of arthritis. Degenerative joint disease is unique and dangerous. DJD can be caused by injury to a joint‚ or can
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Is alcoholism a disease? Until the 1900s‚ most doctors and scientists did not believe that alcoholism was a disease. In 1956‚ the American Medical Association (AMA) declared alcoholism an illness. It took until the 1991 for the AMA to officially classify alcoholism as a disease. Is Alcoholism a Disease? Many individuals who suffer from alcohol abuse wonder‚ “Is alcoholism a disease?” The definition of a disease describes alcoholism fairly well. A disease is a type condition that harms the normal
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Scratch Disease Cat scratch disease‚ also known as catch scratch fever‚ is caused when someone may get a scratch or bite from. The infection is usually caused for reasons of bartonella bacteria from the scratch or the salvia from the cat’s bite. Cat’s are carriers of the disease and do not show illness‚ only humans will get ill from disease cat’s will just receive it from mostly fleas from other cats. If you pet a cat and rub your eyes with your hand that is another less likely way the disease can spread
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Krabbe disease is a disorder inherited from parents‚ which destroys the myelin coat of nerve cells throughout the nervous system and the process is called demyelination. Demyelination inhibits the transmission of nerve impulses and that hinders the communication of the brain and the body and that results in disability (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research‚ 2016). Dr. Knud. H.Krabbe diagnosed this disorder in 1916 (Arizona Board of Regents‚ 2015). Krabbe disease is a body recessive disorder
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Canavan’s disease is one of the most common and fatal progressive cerebellar degenerative disorder affecting the white matter of the brain which is caused due to the enzyme aspartoacylase. 1 Aspartoacylase (ASPA gene) promotes the deacetylation of N-acetylaspartic acid (NAA) to produce acetate and L-aspartate which is the only brain enzyme that has been shown to effectively metabolize NAA. 2 NAA metabolism plays a major role in the formation of myelin lipids. Oligodendrocytes present in the brain
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This disease diary will be about the disease “Tendonitis”. Tendonitis is a disease that affects your tendons and the way that they operate. Tendinitis is inflammation or irritation of a tendon. It causes pain or tenderness outside of a joint. You will mostly see this disease affected in your shoulders‚ elbows‚ knees‚ wrist‚ or your heels. This disease has common names such as golfers elbow‚ tennis elbow‚ Pitchers’ Shoulder‚ Swimmer’s Shoulder‚ and Jumpers knee. It can lead to rupture of a tendon
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DATA TABLES: DISEASE LESSON 1 Lesson 1: Step 1 Population Number Starting Number of Contagious People Sick Days Reported Contagious Contagion Rate Prediction 200 5 60 5 0.5 Simulation Run 1 600 3 51 0 0.1 Simulation Run 2 600 3 85 0 1.0 Simulation Run 3 600 3 28 0 0.0 Lesson 1: Step 2 Population Number Population Density Starting Number of Contagious People Sick Days Reported Contagious Contagion Rate Prediction 1 (low) 125 Low 5 90 250 1.5
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