Infectious mononucleosis

6.5 Hygiene Until the early twentieth century, worker safety was virtually unknown, The U.S. Public Health Service and the U.S. Bureau of Mines were the first federal agencies to conduct exploratory studies in the mining and steel industries, and these were undertaken as early as 1910. The first state industrial hygiene programs were established in 1913 in the New York and Ohio departments of health. (David S. Gloss, 1995) Hygiene industry is the science to control, evaluate, and recognize…

Research Topic: “The Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Parents and Caregivers about Oral Polio Vaccination in northern Nigeria" Research Questions 1. What are the reasons for vaccine refusal and high increase in non-compliance in changing epidemiology of the virus by Care givers and Parents after Nigeria was declared to have ‘interrupted’ poliomyelitis? 2. Why do Caregivers and Parents change their belief or perspective from a previously vaccine accepted population to a vaccine refusal…

Management of Central Lines Sarah Dunbar, Lourie Grijalva, Brittany Matthews, Megen Price, & Lauren Sapp Introduction According to the Joint Commission (2012, p. v), Central Venous Catheters (CVCs) are the most frequent cause of healthcare-associated bloodstream infections, and about 3 million are placed in the United States annually. A central line associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) is an infection in the blood that develops as a result of introducing bacteria into these…

Infectious Coryza Limited by the knowledge of microbes, infectious coryza was not regarded as a distinct avian disease until 1920s. In 1932, the causative agent was isolated and named as Haemophilus gallinarum afterwards. Based on the identification of Page in 1960s, H. paragallinarum was isolated and regarded as the true causative bacteria. However, recent researches have confirmed both these two species belong to Avibacterium genus and are both reason for the fowl coryza, while most researches…

Your child is lying in a hospital bed covered in red spots. You assumed it was just poison ivy or a few bug bites thinking it will cure up by itself, but it does not. He or she is suffering from fatigue, high fever, loss of appetite, sore throat, and swollen lymphs. The blood work returns (just to be safe) and the doctor tells you, that your child has the chickenpox. The doctor informs you that the body will eventually heal itself, but prescribes medication and give advice on how to deal with…

As the current atmosphere dramatically shifts, new diseases emerge and spread, and as world health organizations combat complex challenges, one must consider the difficult decisions that are made to protect healthy individuals through quarantine and entrapment. Both “Outer Rims” by Toiya Finley and “Monstro” by Junot Diaz weave in the theme of containment or entrapment to create a tension between those that are free versus those that are diseased. However, Diaz, unlike Finley, incorporates…

Great pandemics and epidemics have occurred all throughout our world’s history. They have destroyed civilizations, devastated families, and took away innocent people’s lives. A pandemic refers to a spread of a highly infectious disease usually worldwide, while on the other hand; epidemics are much more contained and can permanently damage a city. Two of the most well known, and most deadly viruses that are around today are the Influenza and Ebola viruses. Both of these viruses have proven…

The Revolutionary War encompassed a six year period that was filled with pain and suffering. Throughout the war, there are believed to have been greater than 25,000 deaths with that same number of injured (Schultz, 2013). The wartime also introduced disease as well as terrible infections from battle wounds of the war. Many of the deaths to disease came from a major small pox epidemic. Even though the amount of suffering was great, there were a number of groups that had great…

Washing hands, covering coughs, and getting vaccinations are the typical prevents for not getting sick. However, what if the virus it so unknown that there aren’t vaccinations to prevent it? Then what does an individual do to prevent this new virus from infecting them? This is called an influenza pandemic. According to the CDC, an influenza pandemic is a new virus that is different from any influenza seen and effects the entire globe. Additionally, due to its constant changing it is very easy…

Although there are several similarities in the red death and the black death, there are also many differences. There was a purpose behind poe's “Masque of the red death” and The Black Death was the an actual tragic event that happened .In this essay I will be talking about the difference in the symptoms, The different beliefs and the similarity in the actions. The Red Death and The Black Death have several differences in the symptoms. The black death (plague) presented itself in three…