Infectious mononucleosis

Inoculation refers to the induction of an infective organism to produce immunity against various infectious diseases (Definition). In Western medicine, inoculation was the process of preventing smallpox by purposefully infecting a person with the disease in a controlled manner to prevent further infection (Meacham). This practice spread to America during the 17th century, during a smallpox epidemic. However, in 1796 English physician Edward Jenner attempted a newer method of inoculation: Jenner…

important 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…

terrible killer. SARS brought us pain and sadness, but also the awareness of infectious disease. After the lesson of SARS, we start thinking about how to prevent this situation happen again. What factors make SARS spread so fast among all of us? This is the question Dr. Kamran Khan ask himself. Dr. Kamran Khan is an infectious disease physician and the founder of BlueDot. BlueBot is a program that studies the way infectious disease spread all over the places by analyzing the big data. Big data…

A Comparison of Death in Milwaukee during the year 1907 and the Environmental and Cultural Changes For this project 247 deaths certificates from the city of Milwaukee reviewed. The birth and death date, age, ethnicity, gender, primary cause of death and secondary cause of death, occupation, duration of illness, and marital statues of each individual was recorded and analyzed. Every individual in the data set died in the months of October or November in the year 1907. The average age of death…

how far we still have to go. The severity of the outbreak was completely avoidable, however due to the disregard of certain factors not usually associated with disease, such as cultural practices, it became an epidemic. In order to approach future infectious disease outbreaks, research shows that a holistic approach that incorporates local socioeconomic and cultural factors may be needed. To begin to fully understand what should be done going forward, it’s important to…

The HIV virus came from near the equatorial West Africa, originating from a native chimpanzee that had been hunted for its meat. Chimps carried what was called Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV)(3). SIV ran through the blood stream of these chimps and as humans came into contact with the blood they became exposed to the original disease. After some time human systems mutated the SIV virus into HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). The virus travels through the body by accompanying the bodily…

immune system are already compromised, it will be much more difficult for them to combat all kinds of infectious diseases, including MERS-CoV. Therefore, to improve the function of their immune systems, and to keep their positive attitude towards health, are the keys to achieve better outcome during and after treatment. In addition, all public facilities and infrastructures in or near the infectious countries should be regularly disinfected using air spray or cleaning liquid. Policy makers can…

Guinn_ENVM510_M4GradedAssign – Sunday 1. Prophylactic antibiotic study: The variable of timing considered. Background: Preventing infection in surgical patients with prophylactic antibiotics uses overall less antibiotics than treating a patient post-surgery who have developed an infection (Burke, 2001). These results indicate an overall reduction in infections, which reduce the overall use of antibiotics. The variable that is critical in the effectiveness of prophylactic antibiotic use is…

Book Report #2: Punishing Disease, HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness by Trevor Hoppe Introduction: Trevor Hoppe in his novel Punishing Disease, HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness provides a narrative f or how public health has affected those living with HIV throughout HIV’s debut to the public in the 1980s to the present. Hoppe visits the history of how the public health handles disease outbreaks and relates that to how their tactics lead to the stigmatism of HIV and ultimately HIV’s…

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “ The Masque of the Red Death” the main focus is not on just the party itself but what lies outside of Prince Prospero's abby, the black plague. This was a grave disease that tormented the people of Europe during the 14th Century. It originally came from a bacteria in rats that then would be transferred to humans in the form of a flea bite. Due to the disease being a bacteria once it was in ones system they could easily infect someone else through both the air and bodily…