Lyme disease affects thousands of people every year around the world‚ and it has proved that even celebrities can get it. Authors Amy Tan and Rebecca Wells‚ musicians Daryl Hall and Avril Lavigne‚ and actors Richard Gere and Parker Posey have all been diagnosed with this illness. Lyme disease is caused by a type of bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi‚ which has several hybrid strains that lead to this illness. These microorganisms are transmitted to humans through ticks that belong to the Ixodes
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Lyme disease Lyme disease is a relatively new‚ being first reported in 1975‚ in Old Lyme ‚ Connecticut. It is caused by the bacterium Borrelia Burgdoferi‚ which can be carried by rats and dears. The transmitters of the disease are the black-legged ticks that bite these animals‚ get infected and afterwards bite people. According to www.ehealthmd.com‚ “the average deer carries 200 or more ticks at one time”. Approximately half of these ticks are infected with the Lyme disease bacteria. The risk of
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Committee : World Health Organization Topic : The Double Burden of Disease Country : The Kingdom of Tonga Delegates : E.Y.A Double burden of disease refers to the dual burden of non-communicable (NCD) and infectious diseases upon the low and middle-income countries. NCD’s such as cardiovascular diseases‚ obesity‚ and diabetes due to the effect of globalization which cause dramatic changes in lifestyle that lead to malnutrition are emerging and imposing now a new burden to those countries
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Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) The center of disease control and prevention is one to the most important and outstanding centers in the world. Their job is to inform the United States population of the different diseases and inform them on how to prevent them. The CDC is one of the centers that will inform you on how you can prevent yourself from getting sick and will also make sure that if you are sick with a contagious disease that no one else is contracted with that particular
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The disease I chose to research is Parkinson’s Disease. Parkinson’s Disease is a disorder of the central nervous system that affects movement. It is also causes people to have uncontrollable tremors. The genes that are mutated are the legs of the 4th and 6th chromosomes. Some symptoms of this disorder and uncontrollable shaking in hands‚ feet‚ legs‚ or arms. Trouble speaking clearly‚ lack of balance‚ sleep and memory difficulties are also symptoms. Diagnosing Parkinson’s can be difficult because
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ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE I can recall my grandmother when I was a child; she was nice‚ happy‚ and could always remember stories about her younger years and even everyone in our family’s birthday. All of that changed one day though‚ my grandmother was at home about three years ago when all of the sudden she had a miniature stroke attack. Physically she was fine after the attack; but mentally she was not well. The miniature strokes had triggered a horribly devastating disease called Alzheimer’s disease.
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Celiac disease is starting to become more common to people. Although it is becoming more common most people mistaken it for a food allergy to gluten which it is not. It is a genetic autoimmune disorder. The difference between an allergy and an autoimmune disorder is that an allergic reaction can most often be taken care of with medicine or an epi pen of some sort and within a few hours you are fine or feeling a lot better. With an autoimmune disorder the effects last for days and up to years depending
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Therapy of Alzheimer’s disease: An update Prerna Upadhyaya*‚ Vikas Seth and Mushtaq Ahmad Department of Pharmacology‚ Mahatma Gandhi Medical College‚ Sitapura‚ Jaipur– 302022‚ India. Accepted 23 June‚ 2010 Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder manifested by deterioration in memory and cognition‚ impairment in performing activities of daily living‚ and many behavioral and neuropsychiatric illnesses. The pathological hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease is widespread neuritic
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My fellow scientists‚ I am writing this report to inform you all of a highly dangerous‚ fatal disease that is beginning to make a resurgence in society. This disease is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease‚ or CJD. While CJD is still considered rare due to its relatively low infection rate‚ it is still critical nonetheless that we and the public be informed of this disease and the devastating effects it can have. CJD is caused by a prion‚ or a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE). Prions are
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Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s is an irreversible‚ unexplained disease. It slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and‚ eventually it destroys the ability to carry out simple tasks. Most people with the Alzheimer’s start experiencing symptoms in their early 60s. The disease was named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer. In 1906 Dr. Alzheimer had a patient that died of an unknown mental illness. Before she died she had memory loss‚ language problems‚ and unpredictable behavior. After she died Dr. Alzheimer
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