Notes on diseases in Spain Legionnaires Disease Legionnaires Disease broke out in July 2001‚ in Murcia‚ Spain. They had more than 800 suspected cases‚ 449 cases were confirmed to be Legionnaires. This was the world’s largest out break‚ with 16‚000 infected‚ back in this century. Before 2001 no one in Spain knew what Legionnaires Disease was. More recent was in August 2013‚ in Spain‚ when 18 people were infected‚ and 4 became fatal. Spain has shut down many touristy hotels because of this ongoing
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Respiratory disease Respiratory disease is a medical term that encompasses pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange possible in higher organisms‚ and includes conditions of the upper respiratory tract‚ trachea‚ bronchi‚ bronchioles‚ alveoli‚ pleura and pleural cavity‚ and the nerves and muscles of breathing. Respiratory diseases range from mild and self-limiting‚ such as the common cold‚ to life-threatening entities like bacterial pneumonia‚ pulmonary embolism
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Conetta CHECK TENSE Ms. Macnally American Literature 12/20/2012 Throughout history‚ non-conformists have influenced society in positive ways. Non-conformity is capable of being beneficial to any society by looking at things from a different perspective. The Catholic Church’s speculated teachings of the universe were invalidated by Non conformity‚ the same way The Vigils and Brother Leon lost their power of the students in The Chocolate War; by someone taking
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Chronic Disease Paper In late fall 1991‚ my family gathered for Thanksgiving at my grandparent ’s house as always. There was nothing special or memorable about that Thanksgiving except for the innocuous mention from my grandmother that she had a dull pain in her leg that seemed to be getting worse. While everyone simply brushed off the comments as a slow sign of aging‚ her comments were much more than that as this would be the last Thanksgiving we would spend with her. Shortly after that Thanksgiving
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Parkinson disease is a gradually progressive degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. Parkinson disease belongs to a group of conditions called movement disorders. There are four characteristic problems caused by Parkinson disease‚ including tremor at rest‚ balance problems‚ stiffness‚ and slowness of movement. Parkinson disease occurs when areas of the brain‚ including an area called the substantia nigra‚ is slowly destroyed. The exact reason for this destruction is not completely known
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2014 Psychology 200 Alzheimer’s Disease Research Paper Kelsey Larrabee Abstract: Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia in elderly individuals. Currently‚ 4.5 million people in the United States approximately have Alzheimer’s disease. (Burns) Alzheimer’s disease presents the victim with a sharp decline in memory‚ language‚ visuospatial perception‚ executive functioning and decision-making. Because this disease is so harsh on people’s personality‚ behavioral
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Lyme Disease Lyme Disease An emerging public health concern in the New River Valley is the increase in reported cases of Lyme disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)‚ “Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vectorborne illness in the United States‚” although it is concentrated primarily in only thirteen states. The New River Valley reported a record number of cases in 2012‚ and is considered endemic to Lyme disease per the Virginia Department of Health
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Prose • • • • • • • • Short Story Factual Prose Novel The Personal Essay Journals Diaries Testimony Letters What is non prose? - is anything that does not tell a story of some kind. Therefore‚ it could include (but is not limited to) an essay (or any piece of writing that is informative) or a piece of poetry that is only describing one person‚ object‚ event or abstract concept. Non-prose materials are composed of graphs‚ tables‚ charts‚ diagrams and everything that does use minimal words to explain
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This thesis is a collection of three independent essays on the causes and consequences of local elections in non-democratic regimes. The first essay examines the political consequences of local elections on the first democratic election after the fall of an autocratic regime. My theoretical analysis highlights that officials that were appointed by upper levels of government have a stronger incentive to continue to use local patronage networks to signal their alignment to upper levels of government
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cells are failing. Many people confuse Alzheimer’s disease with dementia. Dementia is a set of symptoms that include problem solving‚ reasoning skills and memory loss while Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disorder that is usually characterized by considerable dysfunctions in cognition‚ functionality‚ and behavior (Sabbagh et al.‚ 2011). Researchers have discovered changes that take place in the brains of those who have Alzheimer’s disease that may cause the memory loss and decline in other
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