Disease mongering

Bovine brucellosis, which is caused by Brucella abortus, is a global zoonotic disease that primarily affects livestock (Rhyan, et al. 2013). The highly contagious bacterial disease can be found in both humans and animals. In humans, brucellosis can cause night sweats, recurrent fever, back and joint pain, arthritis, and other influenza like symptoms (Rhyan, et al. 2013). In livestock, it is known to cause abortions, arthritis, male reproductive tract lesions, retained placentas, and bursitis…

The purpose of this paper is to find out where Zika is common and why. People want to find out what causes Zika to survive in these certain areas of the world. They also want to find out how we can avoid Zika, for the places that are prone to Zika and or have Zika. Zika plays a big role in our day to day process. Zika intimidates people, especially a couple ready to have a child, so It impacts humans a lot. We study it because it causes a newborn child to have defects when it is born. Zika…

shows the deadly diseases transmitted to people by mosquitos and black flies. The mosquitos served as transmitters to deadly diseases like the West Nile Virus, Yellow Fever and Malaria. Another insect born disease was River blindness, which was transmitted through tiny black flies. The video also shares how public health professionals helped the targeted populations reduce the risk of coming into contact with mosquitos as well as the development of treatment for the deadly diseases. The West…

infectious disease worldwide (Jones et al., 2012; Preston and Haines, 2014). The annual mortality rate from infectious disease was in excess of 13 million (WHO, 1998; Dye, 2014). Evidently, infectious diseases which are a group of communicable disease caused by pathogenic micro-organisms (WHO, 2008), continue to wreck great havoc to health and well–being. Bacterial disease such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and tuberculosis was responsible for about 50% of recorded mortality from infectious diseases…

In today’s world, over 120 million people are infected with a disease called lymphatic filariasis. From these 120 million people, over 40 million of them are disfigured and crippled due to the disease (World Health Organization, 2015). Lymphatic filariasis is a parasitic tropical disease that is caused by microscopic threadlike worms that destroys the lymph system in the human body that may result in intense swelling (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). Lymphatic filariasis is a…

In my student selected novel, “Fever, 1793”, many different events took place that wouldn’t happen in today's time. The biggest being the Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia. It was widespread and grew like wildfire across Mattie’s hometown. The citizens had a hard time getting rid of the fever. Not until the frost came did the death count go down along with the number of people getting sick. In today's time we have more advanced systems in which we can take down a virus. Doctors have a…

Introduction The scientific study of Huntington’s Disease (HD) had began in 1872, by George Huntington who is a family physician that had published a report on the clinical symptoms and peculiar mode of inheritance of the disorder.(1, 2) Huntington’s disease has 3 subtypes according to the age onset, which are infantile, juvenile and the adult-onset.(2) Individuals with Huntington’s disease can become asymptomatic between the ages of 1 and 80 years.(3) The typical mean age of onset is 40 years,…

doctors were getting sick while examining them. There was pretty much no way around it. If you were a doctor, there was no way you weren’t going to not get this disease because of the close contact with the patients with the disease. People in the war needed assistance with doctors since there were so many soldiers getting sick and dying. The army contacted the public health services and asked if they could send nurses and doctors to where they needed them. But with that being said, World War…

The leading cause of death for chronic virus infection in the United States is caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV), an infectious disease that causes liver inflammation. There are five types of hepatitis, hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E, hepatitis C virus being the most serious of the four. HCV is not a sexually transmitted disease; it is contracted through direct contact to infected blood, and from contaminated medical supply. According to the World Health Organization, hepatitis C is most…

Cancer is a disease that can occur anywhere in the body which is caused by a damaged gene that are forced to work that causes cancer cells to grow out of control. Some types of cancers grow and spread quickly throughout the body or take more time to grow. A tumor forms with most cancers, though some are benign meaning not cancerous while ones with cancer are called malignant. One form of cancer known as ovarian cancer is the one that this research paper presents information about. Ovarian cancer…