Dengue fever

temperature, and a large amount of rainfall, at the same time also in a warm place in which diseases such as dengue fever are common. Given these circumstances, the impacts of global warming can cause the sea levels to rise, thus flooding Singapore, at the same time decrease the scarce water resource that Singapore has even more. Health wise, global warming can make diseases such as dengue to make a new grand appearance. However, our country is already very aware of these weaknesses against the…

insecticidal abilities were not found until 1939 by Paul Muller who received the 1948 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. DDT can affect almost every single types of insects, during WW2, DDT has been playing a very important role by not only increased the amount of the…

such as malaria, dengue fever, cholera, equine encephalitis, hantavirus and other infectious diseases. Governmental, nongovernmental, humanitarian funding agencies, and for health and climate impacts researchers are more interested in the climate-disease, it becomes outbreak such as “the cholera spread in “Latin America” but also on the world, it became the major disease in 1991-1992. Dengue fever pandemic in Vietnam, malaria outbreaks in Venezuela and Colombia, and a Rift Valley fever spread in…

These samples were mixed with primers and probes and the resulted data were used to create calibration curves with different known concentrations. The serum samples detected two viruses; the Dengue fever and Chikungunya. The results from the test were negative, which indicates that there was no cross reactivity between the two viruses and the Zika virus. Four out of the six patient’s serum samples tested positive for the virus and two tested positive…

Assess his voyages and decide if he is rightly to blame for the spread of disease, or if modern historians are being overly cruel in their assessments. Chrtistopher Columbus was an italian explorer and navigator. Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in the Santa Maria he was hoping to find a new route to India. Christopher Columbus first went to sea as a teenager. His first voyage almost cost him his life when he was attacked by French privateers off the…

What is monsoon season? This monsoon word come from Arabic word which is wind patterns due to replacement of weather patterns. Monsoon typical definition is a season of wind reversing followed by corresponding changes in atmospheric calculation and precipitation . It is related with the asymmetric heating of sea and land. On the other word, monsoon also means rainy phase of pattern that are changing seasonally even though there is dry phase. The annual average of rainfall is 2420 mm for…

Data sources: The science has proved that the carbon emission in atmosphere has increased the hurricanes in Atlantic Ocean and floods in this decades. This has resulted in warmer climate that lead to storms. The floods and storms has always made destruction to the lives and materials. The infectious diseases, injuries, contamination of water that ultimately affected the health care. The allergies and respiratory diseases caused to the pollutants in air. Most of the Americans is living in the…

The Aloha State, Hawaii! On this tropical Island, there were many events that had happened during this year. On December 19, the dengue fever had returned with a total of 122 cases in Hawaii. This virus had not been seen in Hawaii since 1943. The virus is carried by mosquitoes and humans. The USS Greenville nuclear submarine accidentally sinks the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishery training ship, 10 miles south of Diamond Head. Commander Scott Waddle was let out from the navy because of the…

INTRODUCTION Public health is the establishment and maintenance of healthful living conditions for the general population. This goal requires organized effort from all levels of government, health institutions and individuals. There are three principle aims that underlie public health efforts. First is the assessment and monitoring of populations, from the community level to the national level, to…

of key factors in the emergence of infectious diseases. From this list, three factors stand out as critically important due to their heightened potential … I will argue that climate and weather, lack of political will, and human demographics and behavior are the most critical factors in the emergence of infectious diseases in the modern day. I. Climate and Weather All life is impacted by short-term weather variations and long-term changes in climate. Climate and weather, thus, have the…