Harmful Habits and Infectious Disease Prevention Second Hand Smoke Second hand smoke can be a serious concern for smokers and non smokers alike. When one thinks of smoking‚ they think of individuals who smoke and the effects of lung cancer that are attributed to smoking. One usually never thinks that second hand smoke can be harmful. After all they are not the ones smoking tobacco. Each day in America 1‚200 people die from smoking and exposure to second hand smoke; according to Kick Butts
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Pandemics are disease that spread over a country or the world. Typhus is an example of a pandemic. Typhus is a bacterial disease that is spread by lice and fleas. Brill Zinsser is the discoverer of the disease and typhus is also known as “Brill Zinsser Disease”. Two types of most common typhus are endemic and murine. Endemic typhus is usually seen in places with cold temperature‚ endemic typhus are sometimes called “jail fever” or “camp fever” because typhus killed hundreds of thousands of people
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we saw during the 2011‚ terrorist attacks‚ the pulmonary form is very real and a serious threat to life. It affects the lungs and the GI tract. The last form is the meningitis form that affects the central nervous system. Typically spread from humans to livestock and can be transmitted via air‚ soil‚ animal hides‚ and food. The dormant spores of Anthrax can live in soil and animal products‚ such as hides (leather) for years and it is not easy to kill by heat or cold. Once spores are
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management of outbreaks; Section 4 describes specific infectious diseases; Section 5 contact numbers and sources of information; Section 6 contains additional detailed information and a table of diseases; Section 7 contains risk assessments relevant to infection control; Section 8 research sources‚ references and useful web sites Further information is available from the Food Safety Adviser at Leicestershire County Council and from the Health Protection Agency – East Midlands South. Contact
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was derived from the Greek words where “epi” means upon‚ “demos” means people‚ and “logos” means study. Epidemiology can be defined in detail as the study of distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations‚ and the application of this study to the prevention and control of health problems. (Last‚ 2001) Here‚ in the definition the distribution refers to analysis of persons‚ classes of people‚ places that are being affected by the specific disease and determinants
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Infectious diarrhea is the second leading cause of death in children worldwide‚ killing an average of 760‚000 children under the age of five and affecting as many as 1.7 billion people every year (WHO‚ 2013). Seeing as this disease is easily preventable and treatable‚ but still accounts for a sizable percentage of childhood deaths‚ many countries and organizations have attempted to develop programs over the past decade in an attempt to eliminate this deadly infection. Unfortunately these programs
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diet less than 3 grams per day. He also needs to keep weighting himself. He needs controlled his hypertension carefully. Hypertension plays an important role to increase the risk of his heart failure. Cough is likely a side effect that developed from Lisinopril. He is intolerance to ACEi‚ and he is
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Infectious Disease in Africa The earth has been evolving for billions of years‚ growing in population as well as advancing technologically for thousands of years. Most places are up to speed with the latest and greatest new technology. Africa‚ however‚ is struggling to get by without any of these luxuries. They are plagued with disease‚ contaminated water‚ and starvation on top of extreme poverty. But‚ if disease is everywhere--why has it hit Africa the hardest? Well‚ without
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world’s deadliest tropical parasitic diseases. It claims more lives than any other communicable disease except tuberculosis. In Africa and other developing countries‚ it also accounts for millions of dollars in medical costs. Malaria‚ however‚ is a curable disease if promptly diagnosed and adequately treated. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by the parasite plasmodium. In recent years‚ most cases in the U.S. have been in people who have acquired the disease after travelling to tropical and
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of a killer disease. It’s a painful thought to know that person never got to live to see their full potential. Diseases kill children every year. Many diseases are bacteria‚ inhaled by the victim‚ infecting several areas of the body. The bacteria lives and grows while its victim dies. Other diseases are caused by viruses; a non-living infection that attacks the disease-fighting system and other living cells. Children are much more able to be hurt by disease because of their weak disease-fighting systems
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