Humanitarian aid

The International Health Regulations and the World Health Organization work hand in hand and are constantly revising their methods and strategic plans to aid in eradicating and or preventing wide spread diseases. This article focus and stresses the regulations and sanctions that are placed on varying international treaties regarding agreements of trading goods. There are several crucial steps that must be…

Poliomyelitis is an infectious and deadly disease that can spread through human contact. It can infect the victim's brain and spinal cord, which causes paralysis. Common symptoms of polio are: Sore throat, fever, tiredness, nausea, headache, and stomach pains. These symptoms can last for 2-5 days, then they go away on their own. Few people who have the poliovirus contract more serious symptoms that can affect the brain and the spinal cord. The more serious symptoms are: paresthesia (tingling,…

Scabies is a parasitic STD, and can be spread by skin to skin contact with a person that has scabies. Scabies is quite common, around 1 million people get infected with scabies each year. Some symptoms of scabies can be intense itching usually at night, small bumps or rashes, on fingers, butt, breasts, wrist, and thighs. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/scabies/basics/definition/con-20023488 Your doctor can test for scabies by using a microscope or sometimes taking a biopsy of the…

The organism that is commonly referred to as “Strep” is Streptococcus pyogenes. S. pyogenes is a facultative anaerobe: an aerobe that does not require oxygen for its metabolism and is capable of growth in the absence of it (Cowan & Talaro, 2009, p. 185). S. pyogenes is a prokaryote because it is an organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops (“Classification,”…

this bacterium was so severe that people began to blame Jews for the reason why this pestilence has plagued their land. The people living at the time had a dark view on life because the plague seemed unstoppable and unrelenting in its pursuit. HIV-Aids history dates back farther than many believe and originate from a close relative…

It had been just about three months since the walls first went up. The government thought that they would contain the virus, and keep those who were infected trapped inside and calm, but it only did the opposite. The infected didn't stay calm, they got angry, and the angrier they became, the stronger they became (or at least those who survived the infection). The infection seemed to affect everyone differently. Sometimes it would leave them dead in a matter of days, but sometimes, sometimes it…

These systems have many diseases and infections, whose consequences are terrible ones that lead to death or survive by treatment. One of the diseases of the reproductive system is syphilis which a sexually transmitted disease caused by a type of bacteria, it can affect the vagina, anus, urethra or penis and one disease of the nervous system is meningitis is an inflammation (swelling) of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord known as the meninges,it can be caused by a…

Herpes is a common sexual transmitted diesease. Genital herpes is caused by two types of viruses. In the United States one out of every six people get genital herpes. You get genital herpes by having vaginal, anal, or oral sex with someone who has the disease. Fluids found in a herpes sore carry the virus and contact with those fluids can cause infection. You can also get herpes from an infected partner who does not have a visible sore or who may not know he or she is infected because the virus…

Occasionally, it can imitate acute bacterial meningitis. However, this form of meningitis isn't contagious from person to person. Cryptococcal meningitis is a common fungal form of the disease that affects people with immune deficiencies, such as HIV/ AIDS. It's life-threatening if not treated with an antifungal medication. Meningitis can also result from noninfectious causes, such as chemical reactions, drug allergies, some types of cancer and inflammatory diseases such as sarcoidosis…

This article is basically about how the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil is really just a big lie told by the World Health Organization (WHO). In January, there was a report that 4,000 cases of newly born babies had microcephaly and extremely small heads. After some Brazilian researchers went and took a look, only about 404 of those babies really had microcephaly. Then, after more research, only 17 of those cases were even related to the Zika virus. Because of this discovery, it is proven the…