Lyme disease

on reacting to the disease not preventing it although that has changed in recent years with and inoculations for some diseases. Many people in Africa eat bushmeat like chimpanzees and monkey with a spread the ebola infection in recent years as these animals were hunted or handled. The ecology of diseases this tree is passed through a chain…

The Chain of Infection is a serious one! With bacteria being so small and living everywhere by the billions, it makes it almost impossible to win this fight. Now the real question is, what can we do prevent the spread of these little infectious buggers? The answer to this question is literally all over the place! We see it so often, that we have started to ignore it; signs are in the washrooms, classrooms, restaurants, hospitals and most places you go to, and they all say the same message “ WASH…

Huntington’s is an inherited disease that targets the brain’s function. The disorder takes over and kills parts of the brain causing the individual with the disease to lose motor function, memories and the ability to rationalize. The defect occurs in a single gene and because Huntington’s is an autosomal dominates disorder the offspring only needs one copy of the abnormal gene to possibly develop the disease. The Huntington’s mutation occurs in the HTT gene, this gene controls the production…

Globalization has had such a massive impact on the spread of disease and illness in the world. Increased global travel, trade in food, food-borne illness, climate change are just a few of the main reasons. Historians say that during the colonization of the Americas, smallpox and measles could only travel around the world within a span of a year. Now people can hop on a plane and be anywhere in the world in 36 hours. Threatening aspect is that an infected person could fly to another continent,…

Try this: Look at these six possible causes of death: Ebola Heart disease Tornado Shark attack Lightning strike Plane crash Now force rank them on which is the most probable to happen to a person in the USA, 1 being most probable, and 6 being least probable. According to www.psych2go.net, People are more likely to think that something is more dangerous and immediate to them if they have been hearing about it a lot. For example, Ebola. there were only around 10 confirmed cases of…

Traditions are important in every culture; in Liberia and many other West African countries infectious diseases run rampant due to specific social practices. Many Liberians continue to practice these traditions including the use of healers or spiritual doctors. These “doctors” often recommend alternative medicines, including the uses of herbs and other natural remedies. For example, many Liberians believe that washing their sick and infected relatives in local rivers will “cleanse” their beloved…

Doctors and scientist use blood every day for research. For examples, they use blood in studies to help make medication or to even find cures. Doctors also use their patients’ blood to preform test to see if they have some sort of an affection or life-threating virus that is causing their patients to be sick. Reasons why doctors use blood for their test or research is because the human blood or any organisms blood is very complex because it has all sorts of pathogens, leukocytes (white blood…

especially at the beginning of the war when men who had seldom been far from home were brought together for training with thousands of strangers. First came epidemics of the childhood diseases of chicken pox, mumps, whooping cough, and, especially, measles. Operations in the South meant a dangerous and new disease environment, bringing diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid fever, and malaria. There were no antibiotics, so the surgeons prescribed coffee, whiskey, and quinine. Harsh weather, bad water,…

Measles is one of the most infectious diseases, and it causes many deaths annually. In 2013, there were 400 deaths every 24 hours. Measles virus transmitted through the air by coughing and sneezing. In addition, if the person is in infected environment, he will have a high probability of infection. Therefore, it is important to prevent the person from catching the measles virus. In order to prevent humans from getting measles, they should follow three steps: take the proper precautions for…

The Doctor’s Plague Reflection The book “The Doctor’s Plague” was a verminophobe’s worst nightmare. It was set in a time when germs weren’t discovered yet. No one understood what caused the sickness and the society resorted to primitive ways of explaining phenomenon. It was a time when bleeding and use of leeches were still being used in medicinal practices in mid-19th century Vienna. This book describes the story of how doctors used to spread childbed fever to many pregnant women in the…