Infectious mononucleosis

Frederick Griffith experiment: In the early 1920’s, a young British army medical officer Frederick Griffith began studying Streptococcus pneumonia. Pneumonia, a lung infection caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumonia is a serious case of death at that time. Frederick Griffith was studying the possibility of creating a vaccine. During Griffith’s experiment, his experiments suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information through a process of transformation. He…

As I have mentioned in my previous posts, I have atrophic scars – some rolling scars on my left cheek and more box scars while on my right, few box scars and more ice pick scars. I guess I’m just lucky to have them all on my face. :/ Three weeks ago, I decided to have Fraxel done. Right after the procedure, I felt that the pits were really raised to the surface but I was not sure as it could be just the effect of having a swollen face. Truly, it was. After the scabs fell off completely (on day…

Oral tolerance is the property of certain antigens which, when ingested via the oral route suppresses the immune system and induces tolerance. This property can be used to explain how peptides and other molecules from the food we eat are easily digested and absorbed without eliciting an immune response. This property has been exploited by scientists wherein particular amounts of antigens when administered through the oral route lead to its tolerance by the immune system and thus help in…

Introduction Legionnaires’ Disease is a kind of common pneumonia and caused by bacteria, Legionella Pneumophila. Legionnaires’ Disease becomes more and more in recent years in Hong Kong. Background information The first outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease happened in 1976 which found in Philadelphia in the United States and caused 34 people to die. It is an acute bacterial disease, its incubation period is 2-10 days. Thus, the most common transmission of Legionella are disseminate sprays and…

Past: The Golgi-Apparatus was first discovered by the Italian physician, after which it was named, Camillo Golgi in the year 1897 (but only reported the discovery in 1898), and it appeared in scientific literature for the first time in 1910, but its existence was only proved later in the year 1954 with the help of electron-microscopic studies. Camillo Golgi was able to identify this organelle by using a special staining technique, which he called ‘Black Reaction’, which made it possible to…

Obesity may not seem like a serious problem compared to some infectious disease, but it brings on a stream of health problems along with it. An over consumption of sugar can result in Type 2 diabetes, in which the body can’t produce enough insulin to balance out the body’s sugar intake. It can also lead to problems…

After viewing every episode of the Rx for survival (2005), series, I would usually commence my paper by brainstorming and responding to the questions asked (if one were given). A paramount aspect of every assignment was to create an outline and addressing what I believed to be the critical issues in that particular episode. For example, in The Rise of the Super Bug, I primarily wanted to discuss the reason MDR-TB was on the rise in developing countries and how the behavior and beliefs of a…

Vanquishing AIDS/HIV: Olga Golichenko’s Side AIDS/HIV is a treacherous disease that has killed millions of people world-wide for decades due to lack of proper treatment funding and no available cure for the disease itself. A proposed financial tax, known as the “Robin Hood Tax”, could help in funding treatment and a cure for the disease (DeMoro, pg.11). This financial tax can not only help in the “[eradication] [of] HIV/AIDS and other global epidemics” but also improve global healthcare for…

Alex Guevara Ms. Skierski Rhetoric 306 11/29/2017 Are vaccines autistic? Several interested groups are debating the main question, do vaccines cause autism? One group of stakeholders tends to say that there is no link between vaccines and autism. These people tend to care about the research that medical professionals have taken over decades past. Another group believes that there really is a link between vaccines and autism. These stakeholders care about the research and stories about people…

“The Habit Loop” by Charles Duhigg Explains the reasoning behind habits and why and how they work. ….. Talks about a man named Henry Molaison, who is suffering from viral encephalitis, which was eating away Henry’s brain structure, doctors were unsure if Henry would recover from the disease. Henry was given large doses if antiviral drugs, which fought the disease gradually and would soon make the virus disappear. Scans found that the disease had made some parts of his brain unresponsive. Henry’s…