Hookworm

The anniversary of the death of my beloved friend and protector, Blitz, passed yesterday. Blitz was a tri-colored Collie who was a prince of a dog. When the wind ruffled his fur or he pranced he was the epitome of canine royalty. Blitz was a gentle soul who loved nothing more than to be with his family. We did everything possible together. Throughout his life he suffered from digestive ailments which caused him to feel unwell and quiet oftentimes. As I, myself, suffer from medical issues which…

South Sudan’s Water Story Water is a necessity for all, yet only a limited amount of people have access to water in South Sudan. Even in that limited amount of people, a fraction of them have access to potable water. Only nineteen countries in Africa are estimated to meet the Millennium Development Goals (Saliu). Oftentimes, the people of South Sudan are forced to consume contaminated water thus this water and sanitation crisis consequently resulted in 400,000 water-related deaths in Africa…

socioeconomic status. The children who lived from these shows thinness in about 49.2% and 27.8% of all the children that was observed. Children who are 10 years old and greater shows infection with S. japonicum, Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and hookworm. This was obvious in 20.1%, 54.4%, 71.4% and 25.3% of the results that was showed. Majority of the children was infected of 1 or more infections with 84.7% and less than 3 worm species was infected with 24.7%. All these researchers…

Could Helminth Infection Treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease? Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an umbrella term for a collection of complex diseases that cause inflammation in the mucosal layer of the intestine. The term comprises two main disease states: Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Crohn’s Disease (CD).1 Symptoms of both include abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloody stools, anemia, dehydration and fever.2 Though these illnesses affect 1.4 million individuals in the United States and have been…

Doggy Doodoo. All you need to know. A dog is man’s best friend. People all around the world love their dogs, but they do not love to pick up after them. Do they actually know how much harm they are causing? Water cleanliness today is going down the drain. In America, it’s recorded that 40% of the rivers and 46% of the lakes are polluted. These bodies of water are considered unhealthy for swimming, fishing or aquatic life (Rinkesh). A person may wonder why, and question what the causes could be.…

Latin America has one of the most geographical variations of any location in the world. You can travel across Latin America and be close to the Pacific Ocean, a top of the Andes Mountain ranges, or be in the middle of the Atacama Desert. These variations of geography have a major impact on one of the most densely populated regions in the world. “Geography has strong and pervasive effects on economic and social development.” Most of the population in Latin America lives near the coast. Over 490…

Daniel Dale US History 2020 The myth of the robber barons, a review “The myth of the robber barons” by Burton W. Folsom Jr. is a History Professor at the College of Hillsdale who tells the story of big business in early america and shows the men of this time period being the reasoning for america's advancement into its own industrial and transportation revolution, he writes this book for the college student wanting to understand american market practice of the time as well as the light reader…

The Hiwi is an example of a modern hunter-gatherers group. They obtained most or all of their food by hunting wild animals or gathering wild plants. This term is also known as hunter-gatherer or forage. The Hiwi reveals there are a lot of variations within the diet of small foraging society. The Hiwi source for food are diverse, they gathered different kind of animal and plants from different places such as savannas, forest, rivers, and swamps. Because of the geographical factors, Hiwi doesn 't…

some tension comes from conservative media figures stoking the flames. Bouie than states that this is not the first time in American history of using public health to scaremongering. “Bouie cites ‘Asians were portrayed as feeble and infested with hookworm, Mexicans as lousy, and eastern European Jews as vulnerable to trachoma ...’ Scholars Howard Markel and Alexandra Minna Stern”. Bouie writes it was not until World War 2 that perspective of European immigrants changed. Immigration hysteria…

"The Myth of The Robber Barons" by Burton W. Folsom, JR. is a very distinct story talking about the early American entrepreneurs. This story is a good illustration of big businessmen as being beyond America's significance. At the beginning of the story, Folsom portrays two significant types of entrepreneurs; market entrepreneurs and political entrepreneurs. He then begins to mention that "no entrepreneur fits perfectly into one category or the other, but most fall generally into one category"…