Degenerative disease

Neisser around 1880. It is an extremely common disease that is usually found in the age group of 15-24 years old. It is found to be the second most common disease in the country along with about 700,000 new cases appearing each year. While this number seems big, the real problem is that only about…

which the patient acquired while she was in an orphanage in India. The measles developed into a slow viral infection. In this the symptoms are masked as the patient does not appear to be suffering from the disease. The disease is replicating but it does not overwhelm the body. In this case the disease did not begin to manifest until the patient had finished her first year of college. It began with a reduction of eyesight and moved to the loss of cognitive functions. Slow viruses also know as…

I would like to participate in the BOLD summer camp because in my biology class this school year my class and I learned about cancer cells, and I want to learn more about cancer because I find the subject of cancer very fascinating. It is very interesting how a simple mutation during cell division can cause a rogue cell with its own agenda. It seems like something from a movie. I was fascinated at how a cancer cell is essentially immortal because it ignores signals for cell death, and proceeds…

Design and Procedures: The examination of the population incorporated all verified incident cases of TB reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Tuberculosis Surveillance System (NTSS) for people dwelling in selected US urban communities from 2000 through 2007. Case reports including the demographic, clinical, and treatment data of patients with TB were submitted to NTSS by the local and state health departments. Cases of TB were considered to occur in a selected city…

Since the beginning of time, diseases have existed and troubled humanity. Just alone, the extremely contagious and deadly disease, smallpox took the lives of 400 million until it was eradicated in 1977. For decades, smallpox infected thousand of native americans who was extremely vulnerable to the disease brought by early settlers from Europe. The european contact brought huge epidemics, plowing through villages and the population of the native americans, causing panic and widespread hatred…

be, the act of washing hands to prevent infections wasn’t so apparent up until the late 1800s. Back when doctors and medical students would move from dissecting a corpse straight to performing surgery on a patient, what is now known as infectious diseases were attributed to various reasons, and as every human being is in someway distinct from others, it was suggested that the cause of every death was too (Semmelweis seal., n.d.). In the 1840’s, and due to an increasing rate of puerperal fever…

Every day the news talks about the Virus and how it’s getting worse. We don’t have a cure yet so more people are getting infected and more people die. I’m really starting to get sick of all the death. Here in the U.S. we have special compounds for the uninfected. This is where I live, with my mom and dad. Everyone in the compound works very hard to keep the virus from entering. In fact, both of my parents are scientist and they are desperate to find a cure. My friend Will and I are watchers, we…

Section A: Epidemiology is the study of disease patterns, their causes and means of prevention to control the health problems in a population (Fos, 2011). When an epidemiologist realizes that there is a public health issue; they first identify what and where the health problem is, who is it affecting and when it occurred. They will also look at the relationship between the disease and the genetics and behaviors of the people affected and the condition of the environment (Fos, 2011). In doing so,…

Cancer is an unfortunate mutation that may occur anywhere in the human body. Cancer is a result of cells growing out of control and taking over the body’s normal cells. Fortunately, if caught at an early stage, cancer is curable (“About Us”). American Cancer Society not only works towards curing cancer, but they also work to prevent and lessen the suffrage in any way possible(“American Cancer Society”). This charity tries its absolute best to help you stay well by providing you with an abundant…

Rabies, the disease known for the foaming mouth and causing havoc in animals. But there's more to this disease, it's origins and other symptoms that make it stick out from other illnesses. 55k people die each year because of rabies, though there are vaccines. This enveloped disease is carried in the saliva of an animal, it's body in general - making the carcass of the animal infectious to be around, luckily because it is an enveloped disease, it does not survive long outside the body. Rabies…