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Lungworm in dogs - the symptoms, treatment and how to prevent it. If you are reading this article and your dog is suffering from lungworm. Maybe you have heard the recent national campaign to raise awareness about lungworm, and you are wondering what lungworm is all about. You don’t have to panic relax and keep reading, at the end you will realized it’s not as bad as you think. Lungworm, scientifically known as Angiostrongylus vasorum is a type of parasite worm that affect the lung and tracheas…

The Ebola Virus Disease is an extremely brutal, and fast working virus that is most commonly found in Sub Saharan Africa.(WHO, 2016) Humans mainly contract ebola through infected fluids (such as blood, urine, and fecal matter) that come in contact with ruptured skin, or mucous membranes. Ebola has the ability to stay alive on most material that it comes in contact with, and can be contracted very easily if someone inadvertently…

1. One of the sets of people that have allelic variation are Long Term Survivors who are homozygous for a 32 base-pair deletion in their genome. The deletion is for CCR5, a chemokine receptor which functions as a HIV co-receptor. Due to the deletion of CCR5, the ability of the virus to fuse with the host cells is impaired and those people can be exposed however they will not become infected. Another subgroup of Long Term Survivors are referred to as elite controllers. These individuals are…

Parasitic worms are living all around us, many of us unaware or seemingly unthreatened by the harms they cause. Infection and disease caused by different types of worms that feed off a host are more common than most think. Ascariasis is the most common disease contracted by a type of roundworm called Ascaris Lumbricoides. Over 800 million people are infected by this disease worldwide, although it is more common in places outside the United States. All the types of roundworm cause different…

One year after the major earthquake in Haiti, that occurred in 2010, the country is dealing with a cholera epidemic. This is the first outbreak of cholera in Haiti in over one-hundred years. The year following the earthquake “there has been some 140,000 cases with the death toll well over 3,000” (Brown, 2011) and was reported to have exploded rapidly in late October, 2010. Even though measures are being taken to fight the cholera outbreak, cholera is a bacterial disease of poverty and is…

In the 1980s, a mysterious epidemic swept the nation. This pandemic, later identified as AIDS, caused many deaths and shattered families. This disease caused a distinct homophobia amongst some Americans and destroyed a generation of people. The AIDS epidemic in the 80s was an event that affected the lives of millions of people and still shapes our world today. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome plagued the world in the 1980s and still does to this day. Humans haven't always had the disease AIDS…

The Fight Against Aids It was August 19 when the famous Mary Fischer gave her historic Whisper of the Aids Speech. She gave it at the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas. At the time back then speeches were not usually given but she took the chance. When she first started speaking nobody was listening to her but as she kept on speaking. She stilled the noisy crowd and everyone had her undivided attention. In my source, Defined by words not a disease, Shaw wrote that “TWENTY…

vaccine for it. Although people are still suffering from leprosy, it is very curable. Although there is no vaccine for leprosy, however, vaccine again Tb called the BCG vaccine provides some protection from leprosy. Leprosy is cause by Mycobacterium leprae. Mycobacterium leprae is a slow-growing bacterium. Hansen discovered M. leprae in 1873, so leprosy is also known as Hansen disease. Leprosy can be found in many part of the world. It is common in temperate, tropical, and subtropical…

According to the CDC there are around 200,000 reported cases of syphilis in the United States each year. Syphilis can be hard to detect since it often has the same symptoms as other diseases. In order to detect the disease, it is important to be informed about syphilis. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted bacterial infection. The bacterial infection is caused by the bacterium treponema pallidum. Treponema pallidum belongs to the Spirochaetaceae family, and is a spirochete bacterium.…

Recent study reveals cat-scratch disease is rising among adults Say goodbye to regular cuddle sessions with your beloved kitty, because their claws could harm you. According to a recent study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there has been an increase in cat-scratch disease (CSD) patients. The study revealed that 13,273 people were diagnosed with CSD during 2005-2013, and 538 of the diagnosed patients were later hospitalized. CSD is a bartonella bacterial infection…