Name: Christopher. J Disease: Rocky mountain spotted fever Date:12/7 The Rocky mountain spotted fever is a non-communal disease.…
A “virus” is defined as: “an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by a light microscope, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host” (Document B). Originating from Uganda, the Zika virus was first discovered in 1947 in an infected money in the Zika forest, where its name originates. The Zika virus is a typical one-stranded RNA virus with nucleotide sequences relating it to other African and Asian virus strains. It is capable of infecting other species such as monkeys, elephants, lions, zebras, and rodents. Primates, like humans and monkeys, are known to be the primary hosts and reservoirs.…
Something to Grapple with: How Wily Lyme Disease Prowls the Body From animals to humans, Lyme disease is affecting many individuals across the world. With symptoms such as fatigue and pain, Lyme disease can range from being debilitating to consuming your entire life. Scientists had very little research to find why the disease persists so long in the body until researchers at the University of Toronto investigated that the bacterium Borrelia Burgdorferi is the problem. It actually attaches to the inner surface of the organisms’ blood vessels. This allowed the bacteria to reach vulnerable tissues or hiding places inside the body.…
The bubonic plague is the most common form of the disease, refers to telltale buboes which appear around the neck, groin or armpit. The septicemic plague comes via fleas or from contact with body infected by plague and spreads through the blood stream Pneumonic plague is the most infectious type; it is when the disease passes from person to another through airborne droplets coughed from the lungs. It kills about 50 percent of those it infects.…
Clinical Manifestations: Symptoms of Lyme disease can develop in three stages. Stage 1 is the early localized stage which can occur 3-32 days after a tick bite. The characteristic symptom of this stage is the bullseye rash on the skin where the bite occurred. Only 70-80% of infected people get this rash and the rash can be delayed up to 32 days after the tick bite has occurred. These factors can lead to the disease being undiagnosed.…
To begin, the disease was passed on too many places, that was able to happen because animals would carry the disease to different locations. Animals such as rats, squirrels, rabbits, prairie dogs, and chipmunks transported the disease. These animals were able to carry the disease from China to Asia, Egypt, Syria,…
Bubonic Plague Bubonic Plague is a zoonatic disease , it circulates thourgh fleas on small podents . It’s one of three types of bacterial infections which is cause by yersinia pestis, it belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceac.if the person does get treatment , the Bubonic plauge can kill you within four days and can also kill two thirds of infected humans. You can get infected with this disease if a infected flea bites you or if a rodent bites you. In rare cases , Y pestis bacteria , from a piece of ctholing or other material used by a person with bubonic plague. , it enters into a persons body through an opening in the shin.…
Throughout fourteenth century Europe and likewise the present century, disease is a common thing. However, in the present day scientific advances in medicine and science have aided those significantly in the combat against these diseases. To begin with, diseases like those of the Bubonic Plague and SARS originated from virus/bacteria, and only surfaced when exposed. The Bubonic Plague is caused by a bacterium identified as Yersinia pestis, or Y pestis. It was first discovered in the province of Yunnan in China during 1334.…
Lyme Disease is a bacterial disease caused by 4 main species of bacteria. The bacteria that it can be caused by is Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia mayonii, Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia garinii bacteria. Lyme disease is transmitted by the bite of an infected black-legged tick, also known as a deer tick, but the majority black-legged tick bites do not result in Lyme disease You're more likely to get Lyme disease if you live or spend time in grassy and/or wooded areas where ticks carrying the disease live most.…
Lyme disease is found worldwide and the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in North America and Europe. The disease is transmitted by the bite of a deer tick (Ixodes Scapularis) harboring bacteria named Borrelia burgdorferii (b. burgdorferi) in North America and Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia garinii in Europe and Asia. The first documentation of the disease occurred in 1883 when Dr. Alfred Buchwald treated a German patient with erythema migrans; A bulls-eye pattern rash that occurs in 70-80% of Lyme disease cases. The disease received its name in 1975 after two mothers reported occurrences of arthritis and juvenile arthritis in Lyme, Connecticut. These unexplained symptoms sparked a thorough investigation conducted by Yale School of…
Lyme disease is an illness that someone may get when bitten by an infected tick, there are different cycles of the disease and people react to it differently than others. Citizens should support people with lyme disease because their symptoms are similar to other sickness and can often be misdiagnosed. Lyme disease progresses in three stages, the first stage is when the rash starts to appear the second stage occurs when arthritic pain starts to migrate from joint to joint the last stage is the most serious and happens when arthritis affects the knee and eventually leads to chronic lyme disease. (Britannica Encyclopedia). The first stage starts to occur from days to weeks (1-4 weeks), stage two happens from one to four months and…
Vaccines-calling the shots “You don’t have to cough, you just have to breathe to get the disease because it is airborne and dangerous”. In US approximately 90 percent of parents vaccinate their children and follow recommended schedule which is 28 immunizations to protect against 14 different diseases in their first two years of life. 10 percent of parents either skip or delay some shots and 1 percent don’t vaccinate at all. The reason behind, not vaccinating or delaying or skipping is that parents are scared to inject anything in their child’s body thinking it might harm them and it is reasonable from parents point of view. But today, children are getting sick and dying from preventable disease (like measles, whooping cough) like it happens in third world countries.…
Bloodborne pathogens are microorganisms that can cause harmful diseases in humans. The most common kinds of bloodborne pathogens are hepatitis B, hepatitis C , and human immunodeficiency virus. These pathogens can cause serious health problems. HIV can lead to AIDS, which is a life threatening disease that attacks your immune system. Many humans around the world suffer from bloodborne pathogens, they can damage many important organs and are spread in many ways.…
this version is a blood borne virus. Which means that it passed on blood to blood. The most common way to contract Hepatitis C is through sharing needles, but, you could also contact by inadequate sterilization of medical equipment, and he transfusion of unscreened blood and blood products. “Globally, between 130-150 million have chronic Hepatitis C infection” (Hepatitis C, 2016). A significant number of those who are chronically infected will develop liver cirrhosis or liver cancer.…
Bacteria and Typhoid Fever Bacteria are a single cell organism also known as a Prokaryote that have been around longer than Archaea and Eukarya. Bacteria appeared on Earth 4 billion years ago and are said to be the first forms of life (Nordqvist). The cell of bacterium does not have a nucleus and is without membrane-bound organelle. Bacteria can be rod, sphered or spiral shaped. Bacteria are the most plentiful organism on Earth; as well as being the most various.…