Malaria

Center for Disease Control The Center for Disease Control, or CDC is the leading national public health agency in the United States. It is a federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services and is headquartered just outside Atlanta, Georgia. The CDC aims to promote good health by preventing the growth and development of disease, injury and disability. The CDC focuses its efforts on preventable issues, such as infectious disease, foodborne pathogens, environmental health, injury…

While the importance of women is recognized, men dominate the political, economic, social and religious spheres. Men provide for their families, while women raise the children and cook. Women do not perform work physically as it is seen as insulting. Women tend to each other’s children as there are oftentimes multiple wives in a household with dozens of children. The women designate one another to duties that best fit each individual woman for that household. The women generally get along to…

was that pesticides were harming the environment and wildlife, especially birds. Carson focused her attention on the pesticide DDT, which was first made in 1874. DDT was used heavily during World War II to try and control the diseases typhus and malaria. So she presented research that pesticides can cause cancers, other ill effects and how they can gather in animals bodies through a process called bioaccumulation. Rachel Carson was a biologist and worked sixteen years for the Fish and Wildlife…

Comprehensive Medical Report on Sickle Cell Anemia Where did sickle cell come from? Sickle cell disease is said to have originated in West Africa. Sickle Cell Anemia is a very serious disease. It is a genetic disorder, which is inherited, and is the result of mutated hemoglobin. When a person has sickle cell anemia, their red blood cell count is lower than that of a normal person with a healthy amount of red blood cells. When a person does not have enough healthy red blood cells in their body,…

Tropical areas of the world are heavily ravaged by the burdens of parasitic diseases. While malaria attracts much of the attention, there are still unreasonable burdens placed on communities by other filarial infections such as Onchocerciasis. Recently, there have been effective strategies used to eradicate Dracunculus medinensis from almost all endemic areas. Both Onchocerca and Dracunculus are nematodes they are radially symmetrical, have three tissue layers, and have a hydrostatic skeleton.…

Introduction Do infectious diseases pose a big global health threat? Infectious diseases have been around for centuries and each year we discover new outbreaks around the world. One of our primary goals in global health is to prevent the spread of disease by adopting new technologies and providing primary prevention health education to ensure people live a prolonged life. Communicable diseases such as foodborne diseases do not only spread within a country, but can also easily transcend borders…

Dengue Fever: a mosquito borne disease resulting in the symptoms of sudden high fever, severe headaches, pain behind the eyes, severe joint and muscle pain, nausea, vomiting, and skin rash which appear three to four days after the onset of fever, mild bleeding (such a nose bleeding, bleeding gums, or easy bruising). The tissue invaded are the heart and skeletal muscles. According to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, the following experiment was enacted: “A prospective pediatric clinical cohort of 102 dengue…

Africa is a huge continent land mass that is” four times the size of the United States”, and that is “12 million square miles that is larger than North America”(Collins, Burns 7).Africa is filled deserts, savanna, mountains, mediterranean, rainforests, prairie grassland and vast forests. Through all this topical geography Africa does have very many environmental and health issues. In the beginning when Africa was becoming a continent it was”punctuated by every geographical and geological feature…

In 2014, one of the most talked about subject was the deadly disease, Ebola. As Ebola became more contained, a new disease broke out, causing panic this past summer. The Zika virus has no cure and is spread to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes, mainly affecting pregnant women and their unborn child. Though Ebola and the Zika virus are very different from one another in who they affect and how, they share one common factor in that they are both zoonotic diseases (Zoonotic, 2006).…

3. Why a malaria vaccine is required? When microorganism enter the body, the immune system fight these foreign antigens by production of T or B-lymphocytes that produces antibodies, which effectively neutralize foreign invaders. Human body take several days to produces antibodies, while microorganism attack and multiply in the body and produce serious illness before immune system can fit back, this is a reason behind the vaccine manufacturing and development (CDC, 20175; Sarkander et al., 2016;…