Neglected diseases

Yellow Fever Yellow fever is a potentially deadly infection that has the power to kill with just a bite from a mosquito. This infection, that mainly began in the 1900’s, has caused many people to have nasty symptoms and even death. This potent disease has gruesome consequences if it is allowed to reach the further stages, and it has the ability to transmit rapidly within a short period of time. The initial symptoms will appear three to six days after being bitten by a mosquito. The three to…

The condition was first described by Dr. Samia Temtamy and John Rogers in 1976. The syndrome is named after the Greek goddess proteus who can change his shape. The most thought of person when people think of this condition is John Merrick, commonly known as the elephant man. The condition is rare only about a hundred people have it today. It is still something to worry about when you have a child. Proteus syndrome is the overgrowth of bones, skin, and tissue.…

Cancer is a condition where abnormal cells grow and divide or normal cells divide at an accelerated pace more times than they should. Cancer.gov describes cancer as follows “Cancer is the name given to a collection of related diseases. In all types of cancer, some of the body’s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues.” The human body is a marvelous machine. It is designed from top to bottom to operate at optimum efficiency and this requires the periodic and…

Chickenpox is a disease that has been thought of as a joke in today's generation. The truth is that chickenpox was no laughing matter in the past. This disease could kill people and is made a joke today because a cure has been found, so the disease is not as threatening.The history of chickenpox is amazingly interesting from how it was discovered to how a cure was found. All of these events in history have been marked and will be explained in great detail. The common name of this disease is…

Huntington’s Disease On April 19, 1999, Marie Clay took her 28-year-old daughter, Laurie Clay, to a counselor because she was at high risk of getting Huntington’s disease, a hereditary disease. Due to Laurie’s father, she would be clumsy, fat and forgetful as her father. This is Huntington’s disease, a fatal genetic disorder that causes the nerve cells in the brain to break down. If one of parents is the patient of the disease, each of their children will also inherit the disease by the…

Dystrophy In this world, there are many diseases that are being caused by the X chromosomes or the Y chromosomes. Some of the diseases could be passed down from generation onto the next because it is gene and some of the diseases can be treated and which later on causes for it to make it worse. The diseases that would always be there would be Down Syndrome, Huntington’s Disease, Hemophobia, and many more. As you can see, this paper is going to be able a genetic disease that is being passed on…

An unknown disease spreads across a K-8 school called Iftin Charter School located at 5465 El Cajon Blvd, 92115. Many students are dying from this disease and blood trails the halls. At just 9:00 during a calm award ceremony a student fell to the ground, fainted, and started spitting up blood and foam. Everyone was terrified and the student was taken by an ambulance right away. It was then when the disease started to spread throughout each student makig them dssappear.It was quarantine, for…

Polyradiculitis, otherwise known as a variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), is a very rare disease where the immune system attacks the spinal nerve roots. Fewer than 20,000 a year get this disease, and I was one of them. It was one day in the early April of 2001. I was a healthy three year old toddler that went from running around and climbing on furniture to not being able to walk. My mom started to notice that I wasn’t walking; but instead I was pulling myself across the floor. I also had…

Pancreatic Cancer Cancer is one of the most executioner diseases. The National Cancer Institute defines cancer as the body’s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues. “Cancer can start almost anywhere in the human body, which is made up of trillions of cells. Normally, human cells grow and divide to form new cells as the body needs them. When cells grow old or become damaged, they die, and new cells take their place.” There are many reasons why people get…

contracting cancer. Unfortunately, that number has increased in the last few years to one in three, with reports predicting that number will increase to one in two individuals contracting cancer by 2020 (Faguet, 2005). The rate by which this deadly disease has grown in the past seventy years is astonishing, but what are the causes behind this raging epidemic? The most immediate causes relate to diet, exercise, and the environment. Americans increased their sugar consumption from 12 pounds of…