Infectious mononucleosis

vaccine, it contains bacteria which cannot cause diseases because it has already have been killed. With the ability to protect you from future attacks by encouraging the immune system to act upon the bacteria of the virus. The killed or inactivated infectious agent can’t duplicate, therefore, they don’t have the ability to cause disease. Examples that consist of killed or inactivated vaccines…

One way vaccinations protect is by preserving herd immunity. Herd immunity is defined by the Merriam-Webster English dictionary as “a reduction in the probability of infection that is held to apply to susceptible members of a population in which a significant proportion of the individuals are immune because the chance of coming in contact with an infected individual is less” (“Herd Immunity”). A “susceptible member” may include a person who has a weak immune system or cannot tolerate…

(An introduction to infectious disease) However, John Snow did not believe in “Miasma theory” for the spread of cholera. He believed that it never existed and started interviewing people of London’s Broad Street, where the disease was most predominant, to figure out what actually…

First of all we would like to wish all of our readers a very Happy Fourth of July! We just wanted to remind you to protect your hearing if you’re attending a fireworks display or if you’ll be attending any noisy events and of course we’d like to remind you to have a good time! Do you know how loud fireworks can be? Noise from exploding fireworks can reach a massive 150-175 decibels! The World Health Organisation recommends that adults not be exposed to more than 140 dB of peak sound pressure.…

In his “The Tipping Point”, with the help of various illustrations, Gladwell points out how things become epidemic and how little things make big differences in social realities. Reading “The Law of the Few” made me think about how ideas and behavior can spread like diseases or viruses. Also, the book made me think of life as an epidemic. As far as I understand, one of the reasons why Gladwell brings examples of epidemics and viruses is that a lot of things in life, such as ideas, behavior and…

Scarlet Fever is an infectious bacterial disease affecting mostly children, and causing fever and a rash. It is caused by streptococci. Scarlet fever is one of those diseases that put fear into everyone's eyes when they heard someone around them had contracted it. The scarlet fever was first discovered in the 1600s by an english physician and researcher named Thomas Sydenham. Thomas had many other contributions like the treatment of smallpox. He was the only one who noticed the scarlet fever as…

Biology assignment Introduction ? There are many bacteria present in the world that affect people on a daily basis. There are any antiseptics available on the market to help combat the war against pathogenic bacterium. A common type of bacteria includes bacillus subtillis. ?B. subtillis is a bacterium found on the skin, in the digestive tract, in epithelial wounds, on extremities of the human body, in livestock and soil. Because B.subtiliis is ubquituous, it has developed adaptive strategies…

Policy and Procedure Ultrasound Department Policy Name: Prevention of infection in Diagnostic Ultrasound. 1- Purpose: Ensure the protection for those who may be at risk of infection either patients or visitors or even the staff themselves.. 2-Policy: The role of sonographer in infection control by protects themselves, patient and the ultrasound machine cleaning: Protect themselves by: -Wearing clean clothes daily. -Hair covers. -Good hand washing. -Avoid touching eyes, nose or mouth.…

Edible vaccines Abstract Vaccines are widely used in the whole word. The death rate caused by the infectious organisms has been greatly reduced by the use of vaccines. However traditional vaccines have side-effects. Recently a newer approach to overcome the problems of the traditional vaccines has emerged. Edible vaccines can be better alternatives to the traditional vaccines as they can solve all the problems associated with traditional vaccines. For the production of edible vaccines gene of…

It is a contagious viral infection that usually affects the respiratory passages, causes severe symptoms, and can occur in an epidemic. An epidemic is the slow spread of an infectious disease to a large number of people in a population within a short period of time (Wikipedia). A pandemic is an epidemic outbreak of an infectious disease that can spread through populations and even worldwide. Since 1918, there have been four influenza pandemics. From 1918 to 1919, the Spanish flu (H1N1) spread…