The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study The largest, most important public health study you never heard of The study I chose focuses on Adverse Childhood Experiences (A.C.E). I want to give you the technical details about the study. I wish to first introduce the class especially those with health major to the background behind this study. I feel it’s important because it might the patient sitting in front of you that has had an A.C.E. affecting their health. What is surprising is that the…
The article “Zika virus discovered in infant brains bolsters link to microcephaly” by Gretchen Vogel and the article “5 things you need to know about Zika” by Sandee LaMotte both discuss the growing dangers of Zika virus. Each author takes a deeper look into the virus, but also each author varies on the way that Zika virus is discussed. The first author Vogel discusses more about the personal experience of pregnant woman and the link of birth defects caused by the Zika virus. The second author…
Mosquito borne cases have been reported in all countries where the virus is present (Fernandez Turienzo, 2016). Zika is known to also spread a few other ways. A few cases recently have shown the disease to spread sexually, with the virus remaining in semen for three months after recovery (Fernandez Turienzo, 2016). Zika can also spread from a mother to her fetus. This is more common and what presents the most serious dangers from the virus. Symptoms…
ingredients are contained in vaccines. The first issue presented by requirement of vaccines for all children is, the government should not have the power to command specific medical choices. For example, the co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center, Barbara Low Fisher, said, "If the state can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biological products of known and unknown toxicity today, there will be no limits on which individual freedoms the…
The Dead are Coming I was standing there watching herds of zombies come my way and I start shooting and have the help of Blake. It started as a virus in 2056 when the “cure” hit the market. First you die then you comeback for more. I had my 1911 pulled with 7 bullets and my knife. I lived in Marietta Georgia. I had found a family that was scared and didn’t know how to survive. Mr.Craig said to me as I walked by them, “Hi we’re the Craig's and you are?” “The names Carl,” I respond. “Well it was…
occurring outside of the intensive care unit (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). Additionally, about 75,000 patients with HAIs died during their hospitalizations (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CA-UTIs) are the one of the most common hospital-acquired infection, with an estimated 93,330 CAUTIs in acute care hospitals in 2011 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). According to the current National…
Zika is spread through mosquito bites. Fewer than 1,000 us cases per year. The topics are symptoms, how you get it, and what is the history. Symptoms are. In most cases there is no symptoms. Inflammation cases zika can trigger paralysis in pregnant women. It may cause birth defects. Pain in the back of the eyes,joints,or muscles Whole body, fever,chills, loss of appetite or swearing also in common red eyes. How do you get it. Spreads through mosquito bites (aeds) a type of a mosquito.…
Teen pregnancy is preventable when the right methods are being used. Birth Control is one of the many approaches of doing so. It is shocking to take into consideration the rate of teen pregnancies present in the United States alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “In 2015, a total of 229,715 babies were born to women aged 15-19 years” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Birth Control is not being further endorsed to young teenage girls even when the rate…
world’s most deadly diseases. So far Ebola has killed more than 30,215 people in the world and the number is going up by at least 15 people per day (“Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”). The Ebola virus has completely taken over Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Other countries such as Kayas, Spain, Lagos, Dallas Texas, New York City, Port Harcourt, and Dakar have the Ebola outbreak as well. Ebola is also known as the Hemorrhagic Fever (“Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”).…
motile, curved, rod-shaped (Bacillus). Vibrio vulnificus was first discovered in 1976 in Atlanta from a series of blood culture samples submitted to the Centers for Disease Control. It was first named Beneckea vulnifica but changed to Vibrio vulnificus by a farmer in 1979 (Wikipedia). As stated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Department (CDC), Vibrio vulnificus is a bacterium belonging to the same family as those that causes cholera and Vibrio…