Anopheles

The Zika Outbreak The Zika virus is an emerging new illness that may have more consequences than originally thought. Ever since an outbreak in Uganda in 1947, the world attempted to fully understand Zika, but even now, the medical community cannot quite comprehend everything about it. As more cases of the virus are being reported, people are attempting to combat and eradicate the illness using old and new methods. If the Zika virus continues to spread, future generations may receive the heavy…

In Mosquito Empires, J. R. McNeil exemplifies how interwoven human life can be with outside forces and he provides a well-written account of how something as small as a mosquito indefinitely changed history. Yellow fever and malaria, caused by the mosquito, played an important part in the conquest of the Caribbean. This book bestows a detailed approach to how history and war can be forever altered in the face of deadly disease outbreak. In lieu of the vast majority of works that largely focus on…

With the onset of the monsoons, the weather has become really humid and many people are falling ill. Along with the change of season, it is also the time when mosquitoes bite and spread various harmful diseases such as dengue, malaria, and chikungunya. This is because the rainy season provides apt conditions for mosquitoes and other insects to thrive, which pose a threat to your child’s and your health. Just the thought of a mosquito bite is enough to scare anyone. Although most mosquito bites…

The Nobel Foundation awards the annual Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine to three individuals. Their outstanding discoveries are looked upon as a cure to benefit mankind. One of this year’s Nobel Prize recipients is Youyou Tu. Tu is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, medical scientist, and educator that found the cure for malaria. Her past researches has won awards on her hopes to attend the Chinese Academy of Science. According to the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, malaria is…

Parasites, whether endoparasites or ectoparasites, cause diseases in animals. The Dirofilaria immitis causes Heartworm disease. Canines that live outdoors has a greater risk of mosquito exposure than any canine that primarily lives indoors. Female mosquitoes feed on the canine’s blood, and if the canine is infected with L1 microfilaria, the mosquito sucks up the larvae that lives in the blood. The next canine that the mosquito takes a blood meal from will be infected with the L3 larvae. This…

SIKH CULTUREWhile caring for a patient in the hospital, one very important thing that a nurse needs to be is culturally competent. In caring for someone from the Sikh community the nurse must respect privacy, the fact that the patient may want to stay as covered up as possible, allowing ample time for prayer, trying to plan out the patient care around prayer times, avoid any unnecessary touching, respecting personal space, be knowledgeable of the Sikh’s five K’s as mentioned earlier in the…

Africa is a huge continent land mass that is” four times the size of the United States”, and that is “12 million square miles that is larger than North America”(Collins, Burns 7).Africa is filled deserts, savanna, mountains, mediterranean, rainforests, prairie grassland and vast forests. Through all this topical geography Africa does have very many environmental and health issues. In the beginning when Africa was becoming a continent it was”punctuated by every geographical and geological feature…

Taxonomy: Domain- Eukaryota , Kingdom- metazoa, Phylum- nematoda, Class-Secernentea, order-spirurida, family- filliradia, genus- Wuchereria, species- Wuchereria bancrofti The common name of Wuchereria bancrofti is filariasis worm, What does your worm look like? The Wuchereria bancrofti curls like an s at both ends . The female is longer and curls up at the end while male is shorter and also curls. What is the worms life cycle? A mosquito transfer larvae of the worm into blood stream of human…

a 228mg base tablet (CDC Gov.). Malaria, the cause from the beginning/the diseases, is a really serious disease that can cause death if not treated right away. Malaria is caused by a parasite that can infect a certain type of mosquito (Female Anopheles Mosquito) which feeds on human to cause Malaria. It is estimated that 1,500 cases of malaria diagnosed in USA each year, are caused by almost all travellers to parts of the world where (such as India, Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo,etc.)…

which causes cycles of pain, fever and chills. The parasite devotes the main phase of its life cycle in the salivary glands of the female mosquito “Anopheles Gambiae.” Malaria has complex life cycle but involves two host, a vertebrate host (Humans); and an invertebrate host (mosquito). Sporozoites of parasite transmitted by bite of female Anopheles mosquito (that has bitten someone with malaria at a particular stage). [5] When this occurs it migrates to the human liver where they undergo one or…