Infectious disease

immigrant population as well. If the immigrant children bring communicable disease and spread them into their new home, mass population are possibly hurt. In this case, professionals fail to perform a duty to protect people from harm, which refers to…

Fraser, C., Riley, S., Anderson, R. M., & Ferguson, N. M. (2004). Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101(16), 6146-6151. This paper deals with the possibility of having to deal with what could and would happen if an infectious viral outbreak were to occur. Their main focus was on what would be the measures for publicly controlling an outbreak and isolating individuals and or groups and…

Ever since the devastating earthquake, Haiti is facing a widespread of problems in child health. Malnutrition takes a serious and irreversible toll, making children more susceptible to disease and death and compromising their cognitive and physical development, which results in low human capital and diminished lifetime earnings (World Bank, 2006). Haiti has the highest rates of childhood underweight and wasting in the Latin America and…

Influenza is an infectious disease caused by the influenza virus. It’s a contagious disease that spreads around the United States every year and affects up to three million people every year, between October and May. The flu is an upper respiratory illness that affects the nose, throat, and lungs. It’s often confused with the common cold. According to WebMD there are three types of flu viruses: A, B, and C. Type A and B cause the annual influenza epidemics that have up to 20% of the population…

nosocomial infections. They supply a bodily barrier between the user and the infectious agent 1.The correct technique for applying…

we treat people infected with communicable disease (infection) in the same settings as people without infection. It is important as a healthcare worker to know and practice evidence based practice when it comes to prevention of spread of infection. First, we need to be educated on the infections. Each microorganism has a chain of infection. They all have a reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission, a portal of entry, host, and back to the infectious agent that starts the process over…

With the existence of vaccines, diseases such as whooping cough, measles, mumps, and polio are now preventable. Many years ago plenty of diseases killed or permanently disabled people. Now that vaccines exist, diseases have reduced and in some cases completely discontinued. We all have, especially mothers, doubt the beliefs in vaccines working. Vaccines are important to our health, they're made to keep us healthy, protect against viruses, and prevent diseases from attacking the body in the…

When dangerous diseases like Ebola and the Zika virus infect large populations of people and become a threat to public health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) takes the lead on responding to them. Of most concern are pathogens that fall into the highest levels of containment – biosafety levels three and four – that are easily transimissable in the air with little to no treatment available (“Recognizing Biosafety Levels”). To fight against such threats, the CDC conducts…

immunizations remain one of the most effective health measures in the United States today. From eliminating polio to significantly decreasing the number of outbreaks of major infectious diseases, it is absolutely vital to continue the immunization process for each and every child to protect against and prevent the spread of infectious disease. Those who are most at risk with childhood immunizations vary by socioeconomic level and the caregiver’s knowledge. Children with families of lower income…

attempting to avert the measles, chicken pox, or this year’s influenza from entering your system, no one likes the prick and poke of those nasty needles. However, it is fascinating how these vaccinations were created and how they have grown to stop infectious diseases and to save lives today.…