Influenza

Schizophrenia is a debilitating disease that causes its victim to experience symptoms that include but are not limited to, hearing and seeing things, delusions, disorganized behavior or speech. However, there are many different symptoms for this disease and they vary from person to person. Schizophrenia is all over the world (about 1% of the world to be exact) but it is defined differently from nation to nation (Shon W. Lewis, 1998, pp. 23-24). It also effects men and women almost equally, being…

In sweating discomfort of the summertime heat, I filed twelve hours through Hong Kong International Airport with my overweight bags, tired eyes, and a dozen of questions about commitment into medicine deriving from hesitation and controversy. Approaching customs, I noticed the intensity and seriousness on the faces of the customs officers whose responsibility were to check passport and question passengers for reason to come to Hong Kong. As I moved closer to the front of the line, I noticed…

that had Measles, contracted it themselves. “Pertussis, also known as Whooping Cough, started off in pigs and dogs, and eventually transferring to humans” (Glassberg). Pertussis, like Measles, is a respiratory infection that is highly contagious. Influenza, like Measles and Smallpox, is a respiratory disease/infection. All of these diseases were highly contagious and were being caught by the natives and diminishing their populations. The conditions that the natives lived in were perfect for the…

symptoms for a 55-year old include a hacking cough that last for up to three weeks with or without phlegm, and sometimes dyspnea and wheezing. The typical community acquired pathogens (CAP) involved with acute bronchitis are viruses which include influenza A and B viruses, parainfluenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), coronavirus, and adenovirus (Buttaro, Trybulski, Bailey, & Sandberg-Cook, 2013). Pneumonia on the other hand is considered as a lung infection caused mainly…

>Based on what you read, what do you think the author believes is the next biggest pandemic? The author does not specifically claim or stated a specific type of pandemic. However, he claims in page 253 that influenza is the nightmare for the epidemiologists. Throughout reading this book, I learned that pandemics could happen suddenly, since the majority of virus exists in animals such as birds, bats, and rodents. The author came to a conclusion that we need to invest our federal budget to…

parents to opt their children out of compulsory vaccination programs as they see fit, regardless of the public health consequences. There is similar inefficiency with the influenza vaccination requirements for health care workers (HCW) in term of exemptions. Since 1981, the CDC has recommended that all HCWs receive an annual influenza vaccination to prevent patient complications and to reduce health care costs (9). Most states permit HCWs to decline the vaccination for one or more of five…

of finding out the body of the suicide victim. Parents often undergo inflated feelings of disgrace, guilt and responsibility. More teenagers and young adults died of suicide than from heart disease, cancer, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease…

disable them. The micro-organisms in the vaccine have been destroyed with chemicals, heat, radiation, or antibiotics. There all kinds of vaccines for example influenza vaccine, HPV vaccine, chicken pox vaccine, and etc. Most of the vaccines patients receive are given by shots, but one can be given in a nasal spray (a version of the influenza vaccine). But no matter how they are given, the general ideas of the vaccines are all the same. Some doctors advise patients being vaccinated to slacken off…

available to them” (Edelman, 2014). An example of this is promoting the influenza vaccination to cancer patient where the flu is a viral infection that affects the respiratory system and for cancer patients could be deadly. The article Important vaccines used as tools for tertiary prevention in oncology patients mentions the importance of vaccination as tertiary prevention to cancer patients “In oncology patients, infection by influenza could be a serious problem. It is proposed that the…

Materials and Methods Materials used in experiment 1.1A: Nutrient agar plate Materials used in experiment 1.1B: Nutrient agar plate, Sterile cotton swab In experiment 1.1B a nutrient agar plate was opened and left in an arbitrary spot in the laboratory and left untouched for three hours, at the end of the lab it was collected and incubated at . In part B a swab/swab rinse method was preformed in order to inoculate the nutrient agar plate. A sterile cotton swab was taken out of its packaging, an…