Infectious disease

in support of her findings leads to the reasonable conclusion that these policies adversely affect student functioning in school as well as long-term immune health. Schools require numerous vaccinations as a way of protecting students from infectious disease and boosting individual immune systems and herd immunity. Policies limiting outside activity and access to nature during the day is likely negatively impacting, if not completely countering, those beneficial effects. Revision of Georgia’s…

everybody’s responsibility to avoid infectious diseases outbreaks. The main responsibility should lie on the parents’ shoulders. Some parents do not want to vaccinate their children for different reasons. However, some parents want to protect their kids and they follow religiously the vaccination schedule. In addition, parents that do not vaccinate their kids mix them in the regular population such as parks, movie theaters, or schools. Consequently, infectious diseases outbreaks are happening.…

increased complexity of thinking between physicians and scientists. During the 1800’s, major infectious diseases like cholera, tuberculosis, typhus, and yellow fever strongly emerged in Europe with the etiology of these infections far to be known. Some of the early concepts that could have explained such diseases included the ontological and physiological concept. The ontological concept assumed that disease was caused by an external source that entered the body, and each person would experience…

safe but still effective. Vaccines allow the vaccinated to build immunity to the particular disease by introducing the body to the antigen, so it can be attacked, and through the immune response system gain antibodies that can recognize the antigen in future encounters and protect the body (“Basics”, n.d). Getting vaccinated can prevent a person from contracting the infectious disease and depending on the disease can save them from serious issues and even death. Additionally, being vaccinated…

vaccines people have been able to avoid diseases and the devastating effects of vaccine preventable diseases such as death and injury. Vaccine play a major role in our society defending our families, communities and loved ones against outbreaks and epidemics as well as reducing the risk of unwanted consequences. Despite the long history of successful vaccination, vaccines remain a very controversial subject. Over the course of history vaccine preventable diseases have killed or seriously…

same time, I felt a deep sense of compassion for those who had to live on with the disease. At the age of 10, I wanted to understand which processes took place as a disease progressed. It was not until last year that…

provides clean syringes and needles for those who inject drugs into their bloodstream. The program have many pros from its operation. Some of the pros would be that it decreases the chances of someone getting HIV/AIDS , or the spread of any other disease. It properly disposes contaminated or used needles, while decreasing the number of users who share them. The cost of obtaining a clean needle is only a dime. HIV testing can be done at centers for free. The program itself educates drug users on…

What is a Virus? Virus - A virus is a tiny organism that can reproduce inside the cells of an organism. Most viruses are microscopic they are only observable through an optical microscope. Viruses can infect all types of organisms ranging from plant to animals as well as bacteria and other archaea. There are around 5000 different types of viruses described at the current time, however, it is thought that there are millions different viruses of distinct types. Viruses are seen in every…

Mononucleosis is a type of infectious disease that is also known by a more popular name, the “kissing disease”. It is caused by the Epstein-Barr Virus, also known as EBV. EBV is present in over 95% of adult, and it is found all over the world. Generally, the virus is not severe or very harmful. Mono also is not very contagious compared to other diseases. The disease can easily be treated and infects an organism for about three to six weeks. There are many different ways that mono can…

1. The biggest difference between Darwinian medicine and Western medicine approachs to infectious diseases are their views. Western medicine looks at infectious diseases in a more proximal view where they want to cure the patient now and provide them with the most comfortable pathway. However, Darwinian medicine looks at infectious disease in a broader image where they take into consideration how curing an illness might weaken our future immunity or even lengthen the time it takes to heal.…