Infectious diseases

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The Outcomes of Pandemics: An Analysis on HIV, AIDS, and Ebola Throughout history the world has constantly been plagued by the spread of infectious diseases. These diseases have eradicated millions of the world’s population, inducing death and suffering of human kind. While the characteristics and effects of each disease have left their own unique imprint in time, the goal for humanity will always remain the same and that is survival. Over the last 100 years two specific illnesses have made a…

manufactured by Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. I was particularly interested in this product because of the disease caused due to the virus HIV. It is one of the most serious health and development challenges. There are about 3.5 million patients who receive blood each year. HIV and Hepatitis are the most common viruses found in donated blood. This blood is donated unchecked can cause various fatal diseases. As Roche Molecular Systems claims, the cobas TaqScreen MPX test is “one test, three…

On November 8, 1895 Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays. X-rays have evolved drastically over the past 120 years and there have been many new discoveries that are used to this day in diagnostic medicine. Some of the different modalities in medical imaging have also been very helpful when studying art and archeology. Both x-rays and CT’s are used to look at art to confirm its authenticity, archeology for the study of mummies, and also archeology to exam the charred scrolls at Herculaneum and…

protected from disease causing germs right after birth through the mother’s placenta, that natural protection goes away after a short period of time (Kaneshiro). Vaccines prevent and help protect the body from diseases that were once much more common, such as polio, meningitis, and measles, which are now very rare due to vaccinations. However, as studies and recent outbreaks have shown, such as the measles outbreak in California in 2015, if people stopped getting vaccinations, those diseases…

Ebola is an infectious and often deadly disease that became rapidly more prevalent in Western Africa during 2014, at which time an ebola epidemic was officially declared (World Health Organization, 2015). Health professionals (such as doctors and nurses) travelled to work within the epidemic to treat the ill and prevent the spread of disease and were obligated to care for the infected patients. However, due to their moral investments in both the health of the community and their own individual…

I feel that it’s normal that back then people who were domesticating animals were getting different types of contagious diseases because they did not have the proper vaccine to attack it. Know that science has developed more rapidly over the years we can figure out how to fight against it. Even though, it might take us years to find the right vaccination to attack the disease, it does not matter because scientist are searching each day the proper one to combat it. Also, according to Jared…

Avian Influenza Avian Influenza (AI) commonly known as "bird flu" is an infectious viral disease of birds, especially wild waterfowl. Wild birds can be asymptomatic carriers spreading the virus, while domestic birds usually sicken and die in just a few days after contracting the virus. AI has been identified in over 100 different species of wild birds worldwide, with the majority of these being waterfowl (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). OVERVIEW I was unable to find a clear date for…

The United States alone lost almost 400,000 people because the Influenza vaccine did not exist at that time. People had no way of fighting off the disease, and this particular virus aggressively attacked people’s lungs. When this epidemic first started doctors assumed it was something else, and was misdiagnosed because of the intense symptoms that people were having from the Spanish Flu. According to…

"Numerous studies have debunked the notion that vaccines cause autism or other chronic diseases, says William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville" (Szabo). Vaccinations cause allergic reactions which can be fatal, but just to keep away life threatening diseases, you need them to help you immune system fight them off. "Ethylmercury is broken down and excreted from the body much more…