J Unit Task 1 Amebicides Antibiotics Antivirals What they are? Amebicides are agents that destroy amebae infections‚ especially those that cause amebiasis. Antibiotics are a treatment that destroy or slow down the growth of bacteria. Antivirals are agents that stop the growth and reproduction of viruses. What diseases they treat? Amebicides treat a disease called amebiasis; amebiasis is an intestinal illness that is commonly caught when someone eats or drinks something that is
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Centre Number For Examiner’s Use Candidate Number Surname Other Names Examiner’s Initials Candidate Signature Question General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Examination June 2013 Mark 1 2 3 Biology Unit 1 BIOL1 4 5 Biology and disease 6 Tuesday 21 May 2013 1.30 pm to 2.45 pm 7 8 For this paper you must have: l a ruler with millimetre measurements l a calculator. TOTAL Time allowed l 1 hour 15 minutes Instructions l l l l l l Use black ink or black ball-point
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Virus Outbreaks Everyone is always fearful when they hear about an infectious virus outbreak. For example‚ the Bubonic Plague and Ebola‚ created a frantic scare all around the world. The author‚ Richard Preston‚ depicts and describes the many different filovirus outbreaks that were exposed‚ taking over the human race throughout the entire book. The novel illustrates how the virus outbreaks had its outbursts‚ rapidly demolishing and destroying the human population gradually as there is no known cure
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Johnson’s The Ghost Map is a national bestseller about Cholera epidemic that happened in London‚ and how it completely changed glob view of urbanization. The book follows Dr. John Snow as he find the source of the outbreak and ultimately changed the way modern city-dwellers‚ city planners‚ physicians‚ and public officials think about the spread of disease and the development of the modern urban environment. His discovery was that the cholera come from contaminated water systems. The book also touches
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14/03/03 Response on " Diary of Mrs. Amelia Stewart Knight" When I finished this article I started to realize that the life of pioneers was not just one big adventure‚ but they had to face some really difficult problems like dangerous river crossing‚ bad weather‚ different kinds of accidents and diseases along the way without any chance for medical treatment. But first of all I had make a research to answer one question before all the problems along the way. It is how much did pioneers traveling
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during project: 1) Cholera was first described by Filippo Paccini in 1854‚ but it was Robert Koch’s famous description thirty years later that was finally recognized. 2) Cholera came to Florence in 1854 during the Asiatic Cholera Pandemic of 1846-63. Notes on Cholera (lenntech.com) Cholera is an acute‚ diarrhoeal illness caused by infection of the intestine with the bacterium Vibrio Cholerae. A person may get cholera by drinking water or eating food contaminated with the cholera bacterium. The
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testing and proof of a hypothesis by exploring the extent to which the two factors relate within the given hypothesis. It puts a theory into action‚ to see if the theory is correct. 2. What did the humoral model of disease propose as the cause for cholera? The humoral model of disease said that disease was caused by an imbalance in one or more of four "humors" or fluids in the body: blood‚ phlegm‚ black bile‚ and yellow bile. Physicians would decide on a treatment based on what they thought was the
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Snow was unable to study cholera first-hand after the end of the first cholera outbreak of 1832. It was not until 1849‚ when a second outbreak occurred‚ that he could study its transmittance again. In between these two outbreaks‚ Snow conducted research on respiration and anesthesiology which caused him to think that the miasma theory could not be true. He started his research on respiration while still at the Hunterian School of Medicine. This is when Snow studied the gas laws and applied this research
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continually creating and improving those community resources which enable people to mutually support each other in performing all the functions of life and achieving their maximum potential. (Cohen‚ L. (2012). In this paper I will be discussing cholera outbreak in Gudum community‚ in Bauchi local government area of Bauchi state. Gudum community is located less than 10 kilometer from Bauchi town‚ the capital of Bauchi state‚ north – east Nigeria. (Unicef‚
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“Hundreds died on that long trail. They died of cholera and black canker‚ of sheer exhaustion and hunger and the bitter cold.” The speech illustrates how common‚ how regular and how deadly disease was on the Overland Trails. Mormon migrants had a huge advantage in communal support from the church body
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