Bacterial Meningitis is a horribly life shacking disease. Bacterial Meningitis can be a very destructive disease it can leave people with horrible and lasting aftermath if survived but if not it could destroy the brain leaving it black and rotting. Bacterial Meningitis has many symptoms‚ ways of spreading‚ treatments and prevention for this horrible disease‚ and it’s very interesting history and how things about it changed. The History of Bacterial meningitis is full of breakthroughs and outbreaks
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Huntington’s Disease or Alzheimer’s Disease? As the body ages through time‚ many of the functions will slowly begin to diminish and deteriorate‚ including the nervous system. The nervous system is made up of your brain and the many different neurons that transmit signals to and from the body. One of the most common ways the nervous system deteriorates is when the connections between two neurons diminish‚ or build plaque. The brain uses neurons to send signals to each other‚ in order to get our
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References: Data Retrieved‚ Jan 13‚ 2012‚ from health.nv.gov/PDFs/Infections/ISPC.pdf Cozad‚ A.‚ & Jones‚ R. (2003)‚ Disinfection and the Prevention of Infectious Disease‚ American Journal of Infection Control‚ (31); 243-254. The World Health Organization‚ (2002)‚ Hospital Hygiene and Infection Control‚ Retrieved‚ Jan 13‚ 2012‚ from‚ http://www.who.int/docstore/water_sanitation_health/wastemanag/ch16.htm
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Pathogens are bad microorganisms that cause diseases which make you unwell if gets into your body‚ some of these are bacteria and viruses. Bacteria cause infections like TB‚ legionnaires and flu and viruses cause Hepatitis B‚ measles‚ mumps and more. Bacteria often produce toxins which affect the body‚ while viruses take over whole the cell and then destroy P2 Explain how pathogenic micro-organisms grow and spread? Pathogen microorganisms grow if all right conditions are in place for it to expand
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invasive meningococcal disease Rabab Z Jafri1‚ Asad Ali1*‚ Nancy E Messonnier2‚ Carol Tevi-Benissan3‚ David Durrheim4‚5‚ Juhani Eskola6‚ Florence Fermon7‚ Keith P Klugman8‚9‚ Mary Ramsay10‚ Samba Sow11‚12‚ Shao Zhujun13‚ Zulfiqar A Bhutta1 and Jon Abramson14 Abstract Neisseria meningitidis is one of the leading causes of bacterial meningitis globally and can also cause sepsis‚ pneumonia‚ and other manifestations. In countries with high endemic rates‚ the disease burden places an immense
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Resident physicians are usually the first to see patients in most teaching institutions‚ and should protect themselves against infectious agents. Their knowledge of infectious agents and disease process is critical. Knowledge of EVD is not only important to residents‚ but to the general public as a whole. Although the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic was prevalent in the news‚ only 6.7% of the residents identified all of the early symptoms of EVD. Residents exhibited poor knowledge of good hygiene
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Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that affects the lungs. It can start out like a normal flu‚ with coughing being the number one symptom. After a while‚ the virus attacks the lungs with more vehemence‚ causing internal bleeding. This internal bleeding is visible when the infected coughs. If left untreated‚ the infected will literally cough themselves to death. Today I will talk about the history of Tuberculosis in the United States. During my speech I will discuss Consumption in the early 19th
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is not a genetic disease. It is an infectious disease caused by pathogens like: viruses‚ bacteria‚ and fungi.This disease can be inherited or passed down from someone in their environment. For someone to inherit whooping cough they have to get it from their parents or it has to run in their family. The inheritance of a disease depends on how important genetics are to the disease. Strong genetic diseases are inherited‚ partial genetic diseases are sometimes inherited‚ and disease that do not have
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bone marrow cells from a baboon into his body to bolster his immune system (baboons are immune to the AIDS virus). The loss of the donor baboon was tolerable because scientists and doctors should use all methods at hand when combating deadly human diseases. Like the many other treatments and medicines that have contributed to improved human health‚ the cure for AIDS will undoubtedly come through animal experimentation. (Editor’s
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vaccinations‚ vaccines have been around for nearly 200 years and are known to have saved millions of lives by preventing a person from infectious diseases through inoculation. The world’s first vaccine‚ the vaccination for smallpox was developed in 1796 by Edward Jenner‚ a doctor from England. Smallpox‚ which dates back to 1350 B.C.‚ is an infectious and contagious disease that plagued much of Europe and North American colonies during the 17th and 18th century. Smallpox claimed more than million deaths
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