Mumps Mumps is a disease caused by a virus and occurs only in human beings. Mumps is found all over the world. Mumps is a contagious disease when the salivary glands‚ on one or both sides of the jaw‚ swells. Mumps usually occurs in school age children‚ but young adults may catch the disease. Everyone born before1957 has already had mumps. After one attack of mumps‚ you will have lifelong immunity. The mumps virus is spread by contact of another person’s discharge from the nose or mouth.
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needs of the infecting organisms in providing a means of increasing transmission. The transformation to exclusively human diseases involves changes in the intermediate vector and/or changes in the microbe. Newly introduced infections‚ like smallpox‚ measles‚ flu‚ diphtheria‚ malaria‚ mumps‚ pertussis‚ plague‚ and yellow fever‚ decimated up to 95% or more of the Mississippian Indians‚ Peruvians‚ Mexico Indians‚ etc. Khoisan‚ Pacific Islanders‚ and Aboriginal Australians were also decimated by imported
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child‚ Bruce‚ and were expecting their second. In the summer of 1964‚ it was discovered Bruce had been diagnosed with German Measles‚ also known as‚ Rubella. Arriving at the doctor’s office‚ they were relieved to find out that Bruce’s Rubella was not the problem some and it would be fine. A quick turn of events took place when the doctor informed Louise that the German Measles could cause “congenital defects.” With nine months still left in her started pregnancy‚ fear filled her hopeful mind as
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Children are the future of a nation. Recognizing the importance of children as a vital human resource‚ the Constitution of India‚ Directive Principles of State Policy and the National Policy for Children have address the need for ensuring holistic development of the Indian Child. However‚ a significant proportion of children under five years are falling prey to diseases and in some cases death due to malnutrition a cumulative manifestation of poverty‚ low status of women‚ neglect
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affects the tiny blood vessels of the eye and if they become blocked or leak then the retina and possibly your vision will be affected. Measles: Measles blindness is the single leading cause of blindness among children in low income countries‚ accounting for an estimated 15‚000 to 60‚000 cases of blindness per year. There is a close synergism between measles and vitamin A deficiency that can result in xerophthalmia‚ with corneal ulceration‚ keratomalacia‚ and subsequent corneal scarring or phthisis
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Introduction Malnutrition is a global challenge in low-income and middle-income countries particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia (Shetty‚ 2002‚ Black‚ et al.‚ 2008). More than ten million children under five years of age die annually worldwide and percentage of child deaths in sub-Saharan Africa is approximately 41% and another 34% in south Asia (Black‚ et al.‚ 2003). It was estimated that more than 50% of these child deaths could be attributed to the potentiating effects of malnutrition
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reduced food supplies‚ as well as pollution their water. The Europeans also introduced foods and diseases‚ all of which were perfectly harmless to the white settlers‚ but lowered the life expectancy of the aboriginal people. Simple diseases like Measles and Influenza had shocking effects on Aborigines. Foods containing wheat and sugar resulted in heart disease and obesity among the indigenous Australians. Europeans introduced new flora and fauna which took over native habitat‚ leading to the extinction
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wore it as a sign of fortune and wealth merchants sold it and made lots of money and a great majority of the lower class devoted their lives to the production of silk making cause a good economic increase in the Han empire. Disease: bubonic plague‚ measles‚ and small pox traveled along the silk roads. Tran-Saharan: Gupta- Manufactured textiles was a major resource produced in the Gupta period (Silk‚ muslin‚ calico‚ linen‚ wool and cotton textiles) Large part of the economy‚ long standing since the
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Jim are lunar module pilots. The command module is home for astronauts on space and small lunar module use when astronauts down to the moon. Two days before the moon trip‚ their doctor said Ken Mattingly can’t go to the moon trip because he has the measles. Their boss‚ Gene Kranz put Jack Swigert for Ken place. In Saturday‚ April 11‚ Apollo 13 flew to the moon from Cape Kennedy‚
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To many undocumented immigrant’s health care is not a pressing concern. People emigrate to America in pursuit of the American dream of freedom and prosperity. According to Gilcrist (2013)‚ an estimated $35 million people are foreign-born currently living in the United Sates‚ and out of that‚ over $10 million are undocumented and are‚ most likely‚ not insured. These undocumented individuals work in our food industry and on our agricultural farms‚ where the susceptibility of transferring disease
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