Coeliac disease

infectious diseases that affect people all across the world. Some infectious diseases effect the human body more severely than others. They can even wipe out an entire community or continent in months. It is important to acknowledge specific viruses and diseases in specific parts of the world that could be in your area or a potential area you want to visit or move to in the future. One disease that exists in a specific part of the world is called Lassa fever, being one of the most common…

Introduction Do infectious diseases pose a big global health threat? Infectious diseases have been around for centuries and each year we discover new outbreaks around the world. One of our primary goals in global health is to prevent the spread of disease by adopting new technologies and providing primary prevention health education to ensure people live a prolonged life. Communicable diseases such as foodborne diseases do not only spread within a country, but can also easily transcend borders…

spread of diseases. One example given is that of mad cow disease (Potter, p.856). Mad cow disease spread across the globe as a result of trade and was passed from human to human due to “contaminated hospital equipment and blood transfusions” (Potter, p.856). This supports the connection to disease that The Farm has, as the cow is clearly a significant part of the artwork (being in the center) and is located near the fruit fly, which, as an insect, is notorious for carrying and spreading…

on reacting to the disease not preventing it although that has changed in recent years with and inoculations for some diseases. Many people in Africa eat bushmeat like chimpanzees and monkey with a spread the ebola infection in recent years as these animals were hunted or handled. The ecology of diseases this tree is passed through a chain…

The Chain of Infection is a serious one! With bacteria being so small and living everywhere by the billions, it makes it almost impossible to win this fight. Now the real question is, what can we do prevent the spread of these little infectious buggers? The answer to this question is literally all over the place! We see it so often, that we have started to ignore it; signs are in the washrooms, classrooms, restaurants, hospitals and most places you go to, and they all say the same message “ WASH…

Huntington’s is an inherited disease that targets the brain’s function. The disorder takes over and kills parts of the brain causing the individual with the disease to lose motor function, memories and the ability to rationalize. The defect occurs in a single gene and because Huntington’s is an autosomal dominates disorder the offspring only needs one copy of the abnormal gene to possibly develop the disease. The Huntington’s mutation occurs in the HTT gene, this gene controls the production…

Globalization has had such a massive impact on the spread of disease and illness in the world. Increased global travel, trade in food, food-borne illness, climate change are just a few of the main reasons. Historians say that during the colonization of the Americas, smallpox and measles could only travel around the world within a span of a year. Now people can hop on a plane and be anywhere in the world in 36 hours. Threatening aspect is that an infected person could fly to another continent,…

Try this: Look at these six possible causes of death: Ebola Heart disease Tornado Shark attack Lightning strike Plane crash Now force rank them on which is the most probable to happen to a person in the USA, 1 being most probable, and 6 being least probable. According to www.psych2go.net, People are more likely to think that something is more dangerous and immediate to them if they have been hearing about it a lot. For example, Ebola. there were only around 10 confirmed cases of…

Traditions are important in every culture; in Liberia and many other West African countries infectious diseases run rampant due to specific social practices. Many Liberians continue to practice these traditions including the use of healers or spiritual doctors. These “doctors” often recommend alternative medicines, including the uses of herbs and other natural remedies. For example, many Liberians believe that washing their sick and infected relatives in local rivers will “cleanse” their beloved…

Doctors and scientist use blood every day for research. For examples, they use blood in studies to help make medication or to even find cures. Doctors also use their patients’ blood to preform test to see if they have some sort of an affection or life-threating virus that is causing their patients to be sick. Reasons why doctors use blood for their test or research is because the human blood or any organisms blood is very complex because it has all sorts of pathogens, leukocytes (white blood…