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Introduction The movie ‘Outbreak’ came out in cinemas in 1995 shortly after the discovery of the Ebola HF virus in the late 1970s. This movie dramatizes the Ebola HF virus and portrays it as the fictional Motaba virus, it shows in a dramatic Hollywood way how the US would react to a deadly disease outbreak. Of course, being a Hollywood movie there are some facts and many fallacies in the finer, more scientific aspects of the disease. The biosecurity facilities used to control the spread of the…

history of CD, diarrhea which may be bloody at times, fever, pain, fatigue, and tenderness in the abdomen. Lab tests are used to find problems that may be linked to Crohn’s disease such as: blood protein levels, sedimentation rate, mineral levels, red blood cells, white blood cells, and stool samples to rule out blood and infectious microbes. Imaging studies and endoscopies are also used to diagnose CD. These images may include barium x-rays and other types of x-rays. CT scans, colonoscopies,…

Smallpox Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by the variola virus (variola major and variola minor). Smallpox gets its name from the pus-filled blisters (or pocks) that form during the illness. The variola virus, which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus, the family Poxviridae and subfamily chordopoxvirinae, is a double-strand DNA virus. After the virus has developed inside the host after around a week, symptoms such as high fever, chills, headache, back and abdominal pains and vomiting…

Time magazine's talk about the AIDS Epidemic in their Aug. 3, 1992, cover. The audience is mostly educated adults in their early 20's to late 50's. Those are the people that would be most worried about AIDS and how it was affecting America at that time. The cover main title is "losing the battle", in 1992 AIDS became the number one cause of death for U.S. men ages 25 to 44, there was no cure for AIDS. But there were treatments for people living with aids to allow them to live a little longer.…

INTRODUCTION Legendary singer Mick Jagger and lead guitarist Keith Richards are part of an iconic English rock band known as the Rolling Stones. Some of the bands top songs include: Gimme Shelter, Jumping Jack Flash, and Brown Sugar. In health care, another type of rolling stones exist called cholelithiasis, commonly known as gallstones. Cholelithiasis is the presence or formation of gallstones, which are commonly found in the gallbladder and the common bile duct (Mosby’s Medical Dictionary,…

wild animals such as wolves, coyotes, foxes, California gray seals, sea lions and raccoons. On rare occasions, dog heartworms will infect human beings. The parasite, Dirofilaria immitis, is spread dog to dog by mosquitoes. When a mosquito obtains a blood meal from an infected dog and then goes on to bite the owner, it is common for some of the heartworm larva to be transferred to the human. Therefore, Heartworm Disease can be considered zoonotic (Diseases passed from animals to man). In a normal…

Abstract: Using the PhysioEx.9.1 software, I ran Activity 4: Simulating Filtration lab to learn about the filtration of solutes in a membrane system. This experiment was conducted using four solutes: NaCl, urea, glucose, and powdered charcoal. The goal was to learn if any of these solutes passed through the three different dialysis membranes at varying pressures. Does increasing the pore size increase filtration rate? What effect will pressure have on the filtration rate? These are the…

Forensic Anthropology Bone Scans How do bone scans help forensic anthropologist figure out how people died? There are many different bone scans that can help them look at different fractures in the bones.The bone scans can help figure out if the deceased was abused,or brought around drugs. Some types of scans that look at bones are the Skeletal Scintigraphy, Dexa Scan, and a Bone Scan. All of these bone scans are used in different ways to help figure out how people died. “Skeletal scintigraphy…

Staying hydrated is tougher when you exercise, because you sweat due to the physical effort you put in the workout. Athletes have to avoid getting dehydrated when they exercise to prevent heat illness, for example. Heat illness occurs when the body gets dehydrated, because the body doesn't cool itself effectively anymore during the exercise in hot summer days. On the other hand, if you drink more water than the body needs while exercising, hyponatremia can occur. Hyponatremia appears when there…

diagnose Castleman Disease? One way that they may be able to diagnose someone would be doing a Blood or Urine Test. Another way they might do is an Imaging Test to see your enlarged Lymph nodes or to see your spleen. Another thing that the might do is a CT scan which they are going to look at your Abonoman and your Pelvis. The last thing that they might do if the can’t find anything from the CT scan or a Blood/Urine Test is there going to do a Lymph node Biopsy. So that is how the Doctors can…