Infection Control Essay

Rheumatoid Arthritis Evidence in Egyptian mummies having disfigured hands and feet suggests the ancient Egyptians were plagued with a modern disease known as rheumatoid arthritis (Mandal, nd). Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease affecting thousands of people. The disease commonly attacks the joints of hands and feet causing irreparable damage. Treating RA may be a challenge because the cause of the disease is still being studied. A person diagnosed with arthritis can expect a…

disease of canines that strikes at the body’s reproducing cells. The blood carries the disease to the digestive tract where it sheds the virus in the feces. Canines at any age can contract this disease, especially unvaccinated adults or puppies. The infection can be transmitted between canines, or on any object that comes in contact with infected canine’s feces. In any area where the canine sleeps, eats, or plays can be an infected area. The illness starts in approximately four days with…

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "more than 3.5 million cases of varicella, 9,000 hospitalizations, and 100 deaths are prevented by varicella vaccination" annually in the United States. Based on this fact alone, one can easily see how devastating chickenpox could be without innoculation. Chickenpox largely affects children, however, incidences in adults have shown that the symptoms can be even worse, leading to complications. Even in the current day, with the…

Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) by Zinkernagel and Doherty (1975). LCMV’s natural reservoirs are the common household rodents (Traub, 1936). Household mice have shown to attain persistent asymptomatic LCMV infections (Oldstone and Dixon, 1976). This persistence of a chronic infection is vital to the evolution of the virus. As a result, LCMV has undergone co-evolution by horizontal and vertical transmission (Welsh et al., 2010). LCMV’s genome consists of a…

According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC), the cytomegalovirus is the most common viral infection that infants are born with in the United States, is the leading cause of congenital abnormalities, has no cure or vaccine and is spread by body contact and body like sweat and saliva. Recently though, new studies…

Mellitus, extrinsic causes predispose the individual to risk the development of foot lesions. The major predisposing factors that lead to foot lesions are peripheral arterial sickness, peripheral neuropathy trilogy and immunopathy (susceptibility to infections). Peripheral neuropathy could have minimal effect on little symptoms hence making it not to be easily identified. However, its pathology does advance faster causing the ending stage the tissue necrosis to reach quickly. Patients who have…

presentation Acute HCV The incidence of acute HCV infection is about 1/100,000 per year, but this figure is probably an underestimate because it mainly refers to symptomatic patients. Progression to persistent or chronic infection occurs in about three quarters of cases, is influenced by the IL28B genotype, and is associated with chronic hepatitis of a variable degree and with variable rates of fibrosis progression. Only exceptionally does infection clear spontaneously in the chronic stage…

The issue of an Ebola epidemic gives rise to obligations for infected individuals in regards to the health of others. It requires the consideration of ethical theories such as utilitarianism and the right for autonomy, where there is a need for individuals infected with the Ebola virus to give up their liberty in order to prevent harm to others. This will be supported with the harm principle and the need for the government to contribute to the public good of preventing the spread of communicable…

Clarithromycin, Erythromycin and Azithromycin are most commonly used. Clarithromycin is known as a macrolide antibiotic. It can be administered to patients who are allergic to penicillin. It is effective at treating respiratory and skin bacterial infections. Clarithromycin works by preventing the bacteria from producing proteins essential to their survival, leaving them unable to multiply and eventually die or become destroyed by the immune…

It must also be recalled that the founders of WHO, was activated for the benefit of its member state. Thus, the emphasis on prevention and direct control is not unexpected. At the same time, by 20th century the rising of germ theory and modern bacteriology were also affecting the institution in two ways (Scott 2015: 34). First, infectious disease outbreaks posed a direct threat to social contact between citizens and the government (Scott 2015: 34). If the government allowed the disease to rage…