Encephalitis

lethargic almost gave up because it has been very long since they had a response or talked to them. They brought them in to a local hospital in New York city, Bronx mental hospital where Dr .Malcolm Sayer is in. Leonard, is one of the patients that has Encephalitis lethargica…

Vaccine Safety A mother with a 5 month old daughter had gotten her daughter 8 vaccines due to a doctor’s request. Two days later, her daughter had a seizure and the doctor said it was probably from a fever, although she never had a fever. He also stated that the seizure shouldn’t happen again. She had another seizure one day later and the doctor said the same thing again. The daughter was free of seizures for a little while. Since the seizures disappeared her mother took her to get more…

Murine typhus is a re-emerging rickettsial disease with a wide-prevalence, most typically in temperate to tropical seaboard regions. The disease manifests as a febrile illness with an acute onset and mild to severe morbidity, including severe encephalitis and fatalities. Its classic form is associated with a rat flea and rat cycle, although other ectoparasites and animal species are involved in the circulation of the etiologic agent, Rickettsia typhi. The disease was first described in 1913 in…

From ancient times, humanity faced a variety of infectious diseases, accompanied by a high mortality rate despite the best efforts of doctors. These include smallpox, cholera, typhoid fever, plague, and others (The history of vaccination). The doctors began to think about how to prevent epidemics kill millions of people in the middle Ages. A wound discharge was used already in the XII century for the prevention of smallpox in China from cows that were ill with smallpox (cowpox non-communicable…

can underestimate the effects and complications of infectious diseases. Some parents worry that the measles mumps rubella (MMR) vaccine can cause brain inflammation (encephalitis), but this risk for the vaccine is around one in one million. On the other hand, one in every 1,000 children who catch measles will experience encephalitis. Of these, one in 10 will die and four in 10 will have permanent brain damage The effectiveness of immunisation Myth: It is not worth immunising children because…

one person, but there’s always one side to every story to every person that wins. In Susannah Cahalan's Brain On Fire, Cahalan is misdiagnosed a handful of times by her doctor and her therapist. She is finally diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis;…

How did Poe die? A question that the world is still trying to answer is: How did Edgar Allan Poe die? I read four interesting articles and they all brought up interesting reasons how and why Poe died. My thesis is that I think Edgar Poe died do to exposure to horrible weather and alcohol caused him to not care for his personal health. In this essay I will provide three reason to support my thesis statement, explain how my reasons and evidence support your thesis, and compare and contrast…

Rome has had some really crazy emperors. I mean that 's what happens when you repeatedly sleep with family right ? There are many examples such as Nero, Tiberius , Augustus etc. Caligula and Claudius are just two of the many examples of crazy weird emperors that has been on the throne surprisingly they are related. Let 's go in chronological order and talk about Caligula first. He ruled Rome from 37-41 AD. He was liked by not only the people but the senators as well. I mean I would like…

book, Susannah Cahalan comes to terms with the disease that tormented and crippled her, but instead of blaming the doctor, blames the system. “In the spring of 2009, I was the 217th person ever to be diagnosed with anti-NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis. Just a year later, that figure had doubled. Now the number is in the thousands. Yet Dr. Bailey, considered one of the best neurologists in the country, had never heard of it. When we live in a time when the rate of misdiagnoses has shown…

EPILEPSY: ADD TITLE Hunter Rolloff is not an ordinary 20 year old. According to the article, “Epilepsy Facts,” 1 in 26 Americans are diagnosed with Epilepsy. Hunter has epilepsy; he talked and walked like a healthy baby until he had encephalitis which is inflammation of the brain, at 14 months old. After being diagnosed with epilepsy, he lost the ability to talk and walk. After countless hours, weeks and months of therapy, he once again gained the ability to walk, but to this day he can say…