“What the hell is wrong with you,” has to be my favorite phrase while driving. Along with a select choice of curse words, I would prefer not to mention. Over the years I have noticed drivers becoming more and more aggressive, myself included. It could be said that road rage is caused by people with anger issues. Which is only a part of the problem. The truth is there are so many more factors to road rage. nearly every driver suffers from road rage, or have been on the receiving end. Once we…
national borders. Coupled with economic development, globalization has altered the human health and disease exposure by altering the relationship between disease, its treatment, and people’s immune systems. Once a certain degree of development has been reached, an epidemiological transition occurs, greatly improving the mortality and fertility rates of a population. Aging, Infectious and Chronic Diseases The evolutionary theory of aging proposes that…
impregnated. The first side to look over in this argument, Side A, is the side against an genetic modification. Although this could be very useful for preventing genetic diseases, 72% are…
Flies more germ-laden than suspected A group of scientist has recently discovered that flies carry more diseases than suspected. The Bristles in a fly’s body attracts the bacteria from where the flies have been. Flies are able to spread bacteria from place-to-place on their legs, feet, and its wings, experiments have shown. In fact, researchers have discovered that for every step taken with a fly it can transfer live bacteria from place-to-place. Many of the bacteria that flies carry are…
infectious diseases that affect people all across the world. Some infectious diseases effect the human body more severely than others. They can even wipe out an entire community or continent in months. It is important to acknowledge specific viruses and diseases in specific parts of the world that could be in your area or a potential area you want to visit or move to in the future. One disease that exists in a specific part of the world is called Lassa fever, being one of the most common…
Introduction Do infectious diseases pose a big global health threat? Infectious diseases have been around for centuries and each year we discover new outbreaks around the world. One of our primary goals in global health is to prevent the spread of disease by adopting new technologies and providing primary prevention health education to ensure people live a prolonged life. Communicable diseases such as foodborne diseases do not only spread within a country, but can also easily transcend borders…
spread of diseases. One example given is that of mad cow disease (Potter, p.856). Mad cow disease spread across the globe as a result of trade and was passed from human to human due to “contaminated hospital equipment and blood transfusions” (Potter, p.856). This supports the connection to disease that The Farm has, as the cow is clearly a significant part of the artwork (being in the center) and is located near the fruit fly, which, as an insect, is notorious for carrying and spreading…
on reacting to the disease not preventing it although that has changed in recent years with and inoculations for some diseases. Many people in Africa eat bushmeat like chimpanzees and monkey with a spread the ebola infection in recent years as these animals were hunted or handled. The ecology of diseases this tree is passed through a chain…
The Chain of Infection is a serious one! With bacteria being so small and living everywhere by the billions, it makes it almost impossible to win this fight. Now the real question is, what can we do prevent the spread of these little infectious buggers? The answer to this question is literally all over the place! We see it so often, that we have started to ignore it; signs are in the washrooms, classrooms, restaurants, hospitals and most places you go to, and they all say the same message “ WASH…
Huntington’s is an inherited disease that targets the brain’s function. The disorder takes over and kills parts of the brain causing the individual with the disease to lose motor function, memories and the ability to rationalize. The defect occurs in a single gene and because Huntington’s is an autosomal dominates disorder the offspring only needs one copy of the abnormal gene to possibly develop the disease. The Huntington’s mutation occurs in the HTT gene, this gene controls the production…