Degenerative disease

There are many different types of roundworms around the world. The most common is pinworms. In this paper you will learn what a pinworm is, what are affected by them, what are some symptoms and signs, what are some of the risk factors, what a pinworms lifecycle is, what some of the economic losses are, what medical treatment you can do, and how you can prevent them. Pinworms are caused by infections by worm-like parasites in the intestines and anal areas of the body. Pinworms are usually white…

the United States, approximately 30,000 Americans have Huntington’s disease (HD). Huntington’s disease, also known as Huntington’s chorea, is an autosomal dominant disorder that causes selected neural cell death. With this disease comes concerns regarding what the disease is, its history, and its symptoms. In addition to those components, its stages, diagnoses, and treatments are of great importance as well. Huntington’s disease is a fatal genetic disorder that causes the progressive…

Medicine in the 1800s or also known as the “ Victorian Era “ was even considered medieval. Not many specialized physicians or drugs existed while terrible diseases such as Cholera or Typhoid dominated the lives of people. Also, the situation of treatment center such as hospitals and care centers were not advanced and taken care of such simple diseases. Although, great advancements in the profession were made such as a higher level of prestige training for doctors and the development of…

Tuberculosis is an extremely contatious disease for it is an airborne disease. This disease can spread rapidly in populated areas where people come in contact with each other easily. It can spread by simply breathing air around infected people. The containment of this disease is extremely important for it make it difficult for people to breath. Tuberculosis has spread rapidly in Russian prisons, which are very unsanitary and over- populated. The spread of this disease in prisons is…

have treatments to cure the disease and they would be dead and suffer from more than 200 diseases including diabetes and anthrax. As we have a treatments, some of diseases that humans used to suffer have been eliminated from most of the countries. Moreover, animals suffer from almost all of the disease that humans do. As a result, scientists use animals as a model in the experiment. As animals are a model for scientists, this will allow scientists to identify the disease and how it going to…

time Ebola was announced as a disease, people were oblivious to the idea that it could kill a person. Nobody thought it was that scary in the beginning. To really find out if Ebola was life threatening, a team of highly trained scientists came in to answer this question. The head of this group was Pardis Sabeti, who is an assistant professor of evolutionary and organismic biology at Harvard University. Dr. Sabeti studies the evolution and effects of infectious diseases and their effect towards…

Tuberculosis is a complex disease, that is treatable and preventable, yet it is the second leading cause of death due to a single infectious agent after HIV/AIDS (WHO, 2013). Although, TB as it is commonly called, has been a major killer throughout human history, its incidence has declined in the United States over most of the 20th century (Adams & Koch, 2010). There was a brief period of increase with the incidence of HIV/AIDS (between 1985 and 1992), but since then, there has been a steady…

susceptible to getting sick from the disease, they are referred to as zoonotic diseases. There are roughly 200 zoonosis, the most common being the various forms tick-related viruses like Lyme disease. Toxoplasmosis in cats is one the zoonotic diseases that can adversely affect humans. What is Toxoplasmosis? Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic zoonotic disease caused by the toxoplasma gondii. Eye problems are the most noted ailment that comes from exposure to the disease. People who have a compromised…

Sweeping the nations is a plague called The bird flu. This disease is extremely dangerous and is rapidly spreading uncontrollably. At the rate this plague is spreading now, 50% of the world’s population will be dead in a matter of months! The bird flu is also immensely contagious. Due to air travel, the bird flu can become intercontinental in only a few hours. This plague has done damage, is doing damage, and will continue to do more damage unless it is stopped. Power in the government is…

instance when traveling to a country in South America, such as Brazil. Before leaving for Brazil, all travelers must make sure they are up to date with all of their vaccines. Aside from the vaccines most people should already have, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reccomends most travelers also get a Hepatits A shot, as well as a Typhoid shot (CDC, 2017). The reason these two shots are recommended is because you can get both Hepatits A and Typhoid through contaminated food and…