Infectious diseases

Smallpox, which was once the most feared disease known to mankind. This disease caused lives impossible to withstand through, all the suffering they went into before they died. It became known as an epidemic disease that ended up exterminating thousands of people. Smallpox started out in Hispaniola originated among African slaves in the silver mines of Haiti and Dominican Republic. Because of no cure, it traveled to the island of Puerto Rico, and then Cuba. It was only a matter of time until it…

Transmitted Diseases (STD’s) are a combination of more than 25 infectious diseases caused by different types of bacteria and viruses. These viruses and bacteria have a negative impact on the American population because most often it is unnoticed and comes with no warning sign. With no cautionary signs, STDs can be transported from one individual to another through sexual contact. In light of this knowledge, STDs is in need of annihilation in the United States, because these diseases can lead…

The video that was displayed in class regarding violence as a contagious disease is an interesting outlook in viewing violence. In the video presented by Gary Slutkin who is an Epidemiologist, which is a physician who specializes on what causes diseases, how diseases spread and how diseases can be contained. Slutkin began his career in Somalia, and attempted treating Somalians and containing diseases in this area. His experience as a physician is broad; since he spent many years in foreign…

1.1 Background Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are intensive medical care unit for newborn baby who born in low weight, early born and develop problems on birth. It provides critical care for babies less than 1 month and at birth. NICU is a combination of trained health care and advanced technology to provide care for babies. Newborn who admitted in NICU are susceptible to infection especially neonates which has immature host defense mechanisms. In NICU, this neonate frequently expose to…

lack of antibiotics, putting travelers to Asia, Latin America, and Africa in a high-risk group. Of the 266-people infected in the United States in 2002, approximately 70% had traveled internationally within 6 weeks of the onset of disease. S. typhimurium is the…

This report investigates the disease Swine flu, also known as human swine influenza or H1N1 Influenza. An outbreak of this disease has already occurred in the recent past as it made headlines back in 2009 when it was declared a pandemic because of the factors that is was a contagious disease quickly affecting many people throughout the world or on multiple continents at once. The virus had not previously been identified meaning the flu had extreme research put into so that information on it…

vaccine.” Polio was one of the nation’s most life-threatening and harmful diseases of the Twentieth Century. The vaccine that cured polio saved many lives, mostly kids. Today polio is that common since the vaccine was made. Polio affected many Americans during the 1900s, before Jonas Salk’s vaccine. The effects…

discovered new diseases and how these diseases came about and how they are developing, such as the Prion Disease. After acknowledging the fact that our bodies have unique ways of morphing beneficiary aspects of our bodies into negative ones it was concluded that the affecting cause of the Prion Disease was not through a virus nor an infection, but thorough our very own protein found in the brain. Prion diseases have affected not only humans but animals as well. The first case of a prion disease…

of strengthening a person’s immunity or resistance to an infectious disease through administration of certain vaccination (World Health Organization, 2016). Vaccination helps to stimulate the body’s own immune system protecting the person against subsequent infections or diseases (World Health Organization, 2016). Immunisation provides the safest and most effective way of protecting people and community from various life-threatening diseases. Thus, immunisation has become one of most significant…

children from diseases, keeping whole communities safe, and not having any links to autism or similar illnesses. There is no reasonable basis to cite against the act of vaccination. First, let the focus be turned to preventing childhood diseases. Protecting children from preventable diseases is one of the most important advantages of vaccines. Children are our future generation; unfortunately,…