Infectious diseases

Meningitis is a very debilitating, and sometimes deadly, disease (Bacterial 2015). This is because, as a disease, meningitis targets the brain and spinal cord (Bacterial 2015). Considering that these organs are very important for maintaining life, this disease is very debilitating. Meningitis occurs when the meninges, the covering of the brain and spinal cord, is inflamed (Bacterial 2015). Surprisingly, meningitis is hard to detect until after many of its symptoms have been displayed by the…

population groups have higher rates of HIV in their communities, thus raising the risk of new infections with each sexual or drug use encounter.” Other factors play into to spreading of the disease such as social,economic, and demographic factors. The geographic role plays the biggest part in the spreading of the disease. Depending on where you live at determines the possibility for you to contract the…

MEASLES According to the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), Rubeola, or “red” measles, is a highly contagious respiratory disease spread by coughing, sneezing, or simply being in close contact with someone who is infected with it, even when the rash is not visible. Measles tends to be more severe in adults than in children, with a higher fever, more prominent rash, and more complications. Symptoms start with a fever, cough, runny nose, red irritated eyes, sore throat with tiny white…

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injuries. Such incidents carry great risk of transmission of fatal like hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The main alarming is when exposure to blood or other body fluids of another person who may have any infectious disease. Therefore health care workers should have ample knowledge about their risk and constantly to take appropriate precautions while inclusion of injection. “Needle stick injury can be define as a penetrating crack cut from a needle (it…

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Of Study Oral health is a state of being free from infectious or disease and it has a profound effect on general health (Kiyoshi-Teo & Blegen,2015). According to Pettit, McCann, Schneiderman, Farren & Campbell (2012), there is association between chronic oral infection with the heart and lung disease. Patient with underlying disease such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is higher risk of aspiration of contaminated respiratory if oral care…

environment, humans, and the economy. Along with explaining how the disease is spread from person to person, promoting illness. With a little bit of history on biological weapons, and my views on biological weapons. A biological weapon is also known as a germ weapon. This is when bacteria, viruses, fungi, or toxins can be used as a weapon against, animals, plants of humans. The use of infectious agents were used in warfare. Diseases were known to kill off more soldiers more than combat has.…

In recent years, the utilization of vaccinations has become a commonly debated topic. Different immunizations are given to put a stop to vaccine preventable diseases such as Hepatitis B, IPV (Polio), Varicella (Chicken Pox) and many more. The most common way for someone to become infected with a disease is from contact with other people and public places. In the United States, children are required to receive vaccines before entering Kindergarten at public schools. These young children’s immune…

case could not be identified as the standard seasonal flu and his sample was sent to the CDC for further testing. The CDC determined that virus was new to humans and first began as a disease in swine. The second case was a 9 year old child who lived 130 miles away from the first case (CDC pwr pt 1). The disease continued to spread until it became a worldwide pandemic with approximately with 43 million to 89 million people contracting…

Deficiency Virus (AIDS) is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that weakens the immune system , making the body susceptible to and unable to recover from op­portunistic diseases that lead to death' (USAID, 2010, pp.173). It is one of the major challenges for Pub­lic Health and it is the world's leading infectious killer. According to the WHO, 35 million people are living with HIV worldwide. In middle and low income countries is the majority of infec­ted people. In 2013, 2.1 million…