Fever

are the symptoms? Fortunately, most people infected with WNV will have no symptoms. About 1 in 5 people who are infected will develop a fever with other symptoms. Less than 1% of infected people develop a serious, sometimes fatal, neurologic illness. Headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea, or rash. Neurologic illness can include headache, high fever, neck stiffness, disorientation, coma, tremors, seizures, or paralysis. (10 points) 6.…

The typhoid germ is found in stool and is spread by eating and drinking contaminated food and water. (“Typhoid fever”, 2014). Typhoid fever is caused by salmonella. Symptoms of typhoid include, fever, headache, constipation or diarrhea, enlarged liver, and rosy spots on the persons torso, and usually appear one to three weeks after being exposed (NYSDOH, 2014, p. 1). Typhoid is treated with antibiotics…

Constanze was in dismay at Wolfgang’s decline in health and demanded that he stop working on the piece. Mozart’s illness came on suddenly, the sickness started with rapid swelling and jolts of pain spreading throughout his body, eventually leading to high fever, sweating, rash, and vomiting. Despite his illness, Mozart sang part of the requiem…

only $2,000 annually, while the cost of dengue treatment is $210.75 per case (Edillo, Halasa & Largo). This amount only covers diagnosis and treatment for standard dengue fever it does not include medical professional fee and hospital bills. In addition to this, DHF and DSS cost three times the amount of the typical dengue fever case and the amount of medical cost varies between private and public hospitals (Edillo, Halasa & Largo). This raises the mortality rate of dengue virus based solely on…

virus was first discovered in 1947 in rhesus monkeys through a monitoring network of sylvatic yellow fever and is named after the Zika forest in Uganda. In 1952, the first human cases of Zika were detected in Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania and since then, outbreaks of Zika have been reported in tropical…

There’s currently no telling how many species would be impacted if the Aedes Aegypti population was wiped out. While this point is certainly relevant, the Aedes Aegypti was nearly wiped out already in the mid 19th century in order to contain Yellow fever, efforts only stopped after funding for the program dried up (Kaufman, 1). The other major con is that another species of mosquito could occupy the vacuum left by Aedes Aegypti. This species, virtually unopposed, could proliferate extremely…

defects if the mother contracts the virus while she is pregnant there are two main ways that the virus is contracted. It’s sexually transmitted and vector transmitted (Mosquitos). Because the symptoms are so similar to Dengue fever it is common for it to be misdiagnosed as Dengue fever, in addition, the Zika Virus causes birth defects for those who are infected during while they are pregnant. It causes microcephaly which is a birth defect that causes an abnormally small head. In Brazil 2015…

Following a recent visit to an elementary school, I contemplated a set of construction-paper projects that hung on the walls of the school’s narrow third grade hallway. The objective of the brightly colored projects entitled “A Timeline of Me” was to help the students develop goals. The timelines ranged from birth to high achievement in school to having traditionally successful jobs and families. Strangely enough, the societal expectations of following a restricted formula reflected in those…

In order to prevent a virus we must first learn its history; how it came about and where, we must then take into perspective how it is spread and then take preventative measures to ensure that the minimal amount of people are infected. A virus is simply defined as a non-living, infectious agent that must use a host cell in order to replicate. What makes these viruses so dangerous is that they’re numerous, and thus easy to spread and catch. This is not to say that every virus affects us, some…

it was a very good story. My English teacher was able to help me understand the language that William Shakespeare used. I was not the only person that struggled with the language in the story. In the story “Typhoid Fever” by Frank McCourt the characters are quarantined in a fever hospital ran by the Catholic Church. While in the hospital they recite lines from a Shakespeare poem to help pass the time. Even though the poem does not make any sense to either of them, they still read and…