acidity. Due to warmer summers in the Arctic, polar bears are coming back to shore earlier and changing their diet to include eggs of snow geese whose migration out is not yet due. 5) Human health. Climate change can increase the exposure to malaria, dengue, diarrhea, and even heat-related illnesses. Not mentioned in the articles are flood-related diseases such as leptospirosis. There is also the loss of life due to malnourishment and natural disasters. Climate change has also emerged as a…
for a while now but just recently has become a danger to the United States and its citizens within its borders, “Zika is an emerging viral disease of the tropics transmitted by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the same mosquito that transmits dengue and yellow fever. The illness resulting from Zika virus was previously considered mild and self-limiting. Most people with Zika fever (aka Zika) have no symptoms; those who do can experience fever, a rash, eye inflammation,…
Cuban Cultural Influence on Foreign Military Considerations The Republic of Cuba, an island country in the Caribbean, is located just beyond the southern-most tip of the state of Florida. Due to its closeness, this country is of active interest to the United States and its military, and has been for many years. This interest makes it adamant that an understanding of the culture be established to ensure communications and tactical decisions best suit the ties between these two countries. In…
between places becomes easier, people and their belongings, pets know interact, moves locally and beyond borders in millions with ease and by various means. This is not without its shortcomings as its rather easier to transfer dangerous diseases such as Dengue and Ebola between places unnoticed! Communicable diseases continue to be a major problem globally accounted Gupta and Guin(2010), viewed on different pointers as potentially dangerous diseases such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV and…
Many species of plants and animals may seem attractive, but looks can be deceiving. Various kinds of plants and animals are brought in each state intentionally or accidentally. They are introduced intentionally by people for specific purposes such as to serve as pets or to fulfill the responsibilities of native species. They could also be introduced accidentally, because of increasing trade, by ocean voyaging ships, or other means. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
Reflective Learning and Writing, Assessment 2 Step 1 In this reflective learning task it will discuss why poor countries have a predominance of infectious diseases as opposed to the lifestyle-related diseases of wealthy countries. Such as obesity, diabetes, lung cancer, alcohol and drug use. This reflective learning task will also include my opinion of the global health inequalities that exist currently and how we can resolve them. For examples poverty, hygiene, access, wealth, resources,…
POVERTY AND DISEASE – A DEADLY CONNECTION Q- Is there a connection between poverty and lack of awareness to increased spread of diseases among the inferior people? Introduction to the connection: The topic that we have chosen for our Global Perspectives group project revolves around the inter-relationship between poverty and disease (health and disease). Basically poverty and disease are stuck in an ongoing vicious relationship and to support this statement there is ample research that shows…
Reported in 2015, Seattle, Washington’s population is 684,451 people (Census Bureau, n/d). Amongst the 684,451 residents who live in Seattle approximately 333,878 are males and 334,464 are females, which accounts for the population to be split to 50/50 of its genders (City-Data, 2016). Percentages of age and sex recorded from 2010-2015: under five years of age 5.3%, under eighteen years old 15.4%, sixty five years and older 10.8% (Census Bureau, n/d). According to the data that was reported to…
There are many concerns about the changes in the overall climate of the earth. One of these dangerous climate problems is referred to as global warming. Global warming refers to the recent and ongoing rise in global average temperature near Earth 's surface. However, global warming itself represents only one aspect of climate change. Some people think that these changes are a result of natural events; others think it is human activity and some think it is a combination of both. In this paper…
Objectives Objective 1: Develop a cell line expressing the duck viperin. In order to develop an avian model that is able to express the duck viperin with an advantage of stable and homogeneous expression, duck viperin with and without the C-terminal V5 tag was previously cloned into the mammalian expression vector pcDNA3.1/Hygro+. Then, with the use of lipofectamine 2000, I stably transfected an empty vector and duck viperin tagged or untagged into DF-1 cells. In order to get a monoclonal…