Infectious diseases

evil spirit,’” according to Lisa A. Beltz, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Kent State University and author of Emerging Infectious Diseases. It typically occurs in tropical and subtropical environments. The warm, moist air is ideal for the mosquitos that carry the virus. According to cdc.gov, a government website for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are four serotypes, or closely related viruses (dengue one, two, three, and four), which causes greater…

Herd Immunity and the Transmission of Disease Krizia Kathrina C. Albuquerque CCSD MED 102 November 23, 2016 Mr. Bongulto Herd Immunity Population-scale immunity is often termed herd immunity. Herd immunity is a form of immunity that happens when the vaccination gets a vaccine to get immunity. It is important that people who cannot get vaccinated be protected. It includes the following: people who have immune system issues, kids who are still small to have vaccines and some who are more ill…

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson is a true story of a terrifying outbreak of cholera and how Dr. John Snow and reverend Henry Whitehead used their knowledge of the disease to find out how prevalent it was over the whole city of London. The disease may have been unfamiliar to them, but common to the millions of people around the country, whose living conditions and sanitation processes were not as good or advanced as theirs. The story reflects the world through the wide varieties of disciplines,…

rate” (Bass, 2015, p. 21). First, I would educate the mother over the immune system of a child. After birth, a baby carries the mother immune until age 7 to 8. During that time a child immune system is not fully developed. There are many variety of infectious microbes in our environment like viruses, bacteria,…

Infectious Coryza Limited by the knowledge of microbes, infectious coryza was not regarded as a distinct avian disease until 1920s. In 1932, the causative agent was isolated and named as Haemophilus gallinarum afterwards. Based on the identification of Page in 1960s, H. paragallinarum was isolated and regarded as the true causative bacteria. However, recent researches have confirmed both these two species belong to Avibacterium genus and are both reason for the fowl coryza, while most researches…

from childhood diseases such as measles is much higher than the risk of reactions after immunisation. When parents of young children have had no direct experience of childhood diseases, it is easy to underestimate their effects and complications. Immunisation and the immune system Myth: The body’s immune system can cope with infection without the help of vaccines. Fact: The immune system is a collection of specialised cells and chemicals that fight infection. Each time an infectious bacterium,…

change in human history, it has the ability to “divide, while it unites”, causing positive exposure for some, and unintended consequences for others (p. 3 - 5). Although the economic and social benefit may be great, the threat of terrorism and infectious diseases may potentially cause risks to global travelers and the destinations they visit. In an effort to understand the results of globalization and its effects on global tourism, the International Safe Travel and Tourism Council (ISTTC) was…

vector-borne infectious diseases, a competent vector must also be present to transmit the pathogen to the host. A vector is defined as an animal, insect, or other organism that carries a pathogen and spreads it to another organism. With the environment rapidly changing and conducive weather events shown to increase, regions that were formerly uninhabitable to some pathogens – and their vectors and nonhuman reservoir hosts – may soon become hospitable enough to support them. Infectious disease…

beliefs, medical reasons, and parents’ concerns of side effects. But whereas parents who choose not to vaccinate do so to avoid risks, vaccinations do save lives, given that vaccine preventable diseases can and will return. Diseases are dangerous, even deadly. Vaccines have weaken the majority of infectious diseases that…

infections (Sherman, 2011). Without vaccines, millions of people would suffer from diseases that can be prevented. In order to see a change in the world from vaccinations, parents needs to vaccinate their children. One of the most important advances in the history of medicine is vaccinations. Vaccinations are used to make someone immune to an infectious disease. To trigger an immune system response, how the body responds to diseases, vaccines are loaded with microorganisms, a microscopic…