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Introduction: Primary research question: Is there an association between adult patient deaths and high heart rates (over 100bpm) among patients who test positive for the Ebola Virus Disease? (dichotomous categorical–continuous) Two secondary questions: 2. Is there an association between body temperature and heart rate among Ebola positive patients? (continuous–continuous) 3. Is there an association between patient gender and outcome among Ebola positive patients?…

Hepatitis B is an inflammation of the liver, caused by the Hepatitis B virus[1], and characterized by diffuse or patchy areas of necrosis[2]. Hepatitis studies that classified the types of Hepatitis began after World War II (1945)[3] just over 70 years ago. Two decades later in 1967, Krugman studies found Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B[3]. Another ten years later, the Prince studies found the specific virus surface antigen that causes Hepatitis B[3]. Taxonomically classified in the…

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are among the most common infectious diseases in the United States today. Sexually transmitted diseases can harm people in several ways. Sexually transmitted diseases are very dangerous. They can passed from one person to another during sexual contact. There are many kinds of sexually transmitted diseases and infections and they are very common. Sexually transmitted diseases can affect guys and girls of all ages and…

Pulmonary cryptococcosis typically occurs in immunocompromised patients, such as those with human immunodeficiency virus / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS). Its presence in HIV/AIDS patients is associated with higher mortality [1]. Pulmonary cryptococcal infections have been reported in nonimmunocompromised hosts, including non-AIDS patients [1, 2] and children [3]. Due to advances in the diagnosis and widespread use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, immunosuppressants, glucocorticoids…

Obesity is a disease that should be irradiated from this earth. Obese people should be all sent to the hot plain fields of Africa. Obesity is a growing epidemic around the globe, it effects one third of adults in the United States. We need to to stop this epidemic now before every single living organism on this beautiful earth becomes obese. One of my intelligent ideas is to send all the obese people to camps in Africa where they will survive a whole ten years to loose all there weight. I’m…

There are many concepts nowadays that individuals argue over and disagree with each other on. Each individual forms their own opinions and beliefs that to them are the right viewpoint unlike everyone else’s whose differs from their own. This is mostly due to environmental influences when growing up that can be identified by parents, neighbors, lifestyle, and so on. Furthermore, when religion is brought into the mix, the situation often times becomes even more complicated. Religious views and…

For this assignment, the virus that I chose to research further was the rabies virus, from the genus Lyssavirus. The rabies virus is a single-stranded RNA virus with a cylindrical structure that is covered by a layer of matrix protein. Its lipoprotein envelope is scattered with rabies glycoprotein-carrying trimeric spikes. This glycoprotein envelope can also influence the rabies virus virulence. The article I read also covered the pathology of the rabies virus, prevention strategies, vaccines,…

Headline: Rotavirus Reference: Rotavirus http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rotavirus/symptoms-causes/dxc-20186931 Accessed February 12, 2017 Vaccination https://www.cdc.gov/rotavirus/vaccination.html Accessed February 12, 2017 Rotavirus https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/rota.pdf Accessed February 12, 2017 Written by: Hai Anh Nguyen Ngoc Reviewed by: Body text starts here: Opening: Rotavirus can be very dangerous, since it imposes severe consequences on its…

In the previously described case regarding the 67-year-old Caucasian male, the patient was treated at a tropical disease hospital with a 14-day course of eflornithine (100mg/kg every 6 hours). Following recovery, the patient attended follow up appointments where MRIs showed that even after 18 month of treatment the white cerebral matter (possible inflammation/infection) in brain had not significantly improved (Elliott, Patel, Shah, & Venkatesan, 2014). Therefore, one can conclude that when a…

In 1947, researchers were conducting a study for yellow fever. They did many tests on insects and other wildlife to find signs of yellow fever. While they were doing tests, they stumbled upon a rhesus monkey that had a fever. They ran tests on the money, and the blood samples told them that there was this new virus. Because the scientists were in the Zika forest in Uganda, they decided to name the virus Zika. The Zika virus usually isn’t that harmful. It is like other insect-borne diseases.…