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    Typhoid Shot Analysis

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    instance when traveling to a country in South America, such as Brazil. Before leaving for Brazil, all travelers must make sure they are up to date with all of their vaccines. Aside from the vaccines most people should already have, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reccomends most travelers also get a Hepatits A shot, as well as a Typhoid shot (CDC, 2017). The reason these two shots are recommended is because you can get both Hepatits A and Typhoid through contaminated food and…

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    Huntington Disease (HD), also known as Huntington’s Disease or Huntington’s Chorea, is a hereditary genetic disorder that results in the death of brain cells causing neuropsychiatric changes, choreiform movements and cognitive disturbances [1]. The most common form of HD is called adult-onset Huntington disease which normally develops around the ages of 30 to 50 [2,3]. A less common form of HD is known as Juvenile Huntington Disease (JHD) which usually develops in childhood or adolescence.…

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    Pros And Cons Of Polio

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    or rubella? Chances are, in all likelihood, you haven’t. Polio was once a global terror, even in the United States. In the timeframe from the 1940’s to the 1950’s, the viral disease infected, on average, over 35,000 people each year in the United States. Polio caused widespread panic and was one of the most feared diseases that our country has ever known. People were afraid to travel, people were quarantined, and people were too scared to even go outside. So, you might be asking yourself, what…

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    of infection? Certainly, this is a world everyone would wish for. Apparently, Archbishop Jim Humble promises to make this dream a reality with what he refers to as “miracle mineral solution" or MMS. Jim claims that this solution can cure dozens of diseases such as cancer, aids, malaria, autism, and hepatitis among others. Not so fast though. The FDA and other renowned medical bodies has warned people against taking the solution since it has been shown to be toxic and has devastating effects on…

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    Huntington’s Disease Huntington’s disease is a serious, dominant genetic disorder in which the nerve cells in a person’s brain degenerate over time. A wide range of symptoms can arise for individuals with this disease. Cognitive, physical, and psychiatric disorders appear over the course of the life of someone with Huntington’s. There is no cure for this disease, but medication can help manage the symptoms. In 1872, George Huntington wrote a paper titled On Chorea describing a disorder which…

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    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.…

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    Rabie Research Paper

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    Rabies is a serious disease caused by a virus and mainly affects animals. This virus belongs to the Rhabdoviridae family -- it's a “bullet shaped virus”. The virus is transmitted through a bite for humans which affects the central nervous system. It travels within the nerves and brain and may multiply rapidly. In the beginning symptoms may not show until maybe weeks and months go by. Rabies may cause pain, fatigue, headaches, fever and irritability often followed by hallucinations,seizures and…

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    Influenza Pandemic of 1918 also known as the Spanish Flu became the deadliest disease. During the early 20th century it affected about 40% of the globe's population, without a doubt creating a large impact on history. With the fatalities increasing at a larger rate than those of the First World War, society of the 20th century responded to the spanish influenza by faulting the religious punishment of certain gods. People neglected the help of treatment causing more to get sick which led to…

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    Tuberculosis And Malaria

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    important overlap between HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, known as ‘the big three’ and neglected tropical diseases. It suggests that in order to combat the big three, we must first target the multitude of tropical diseases. It highlights the geographic and epidemiologic overlap of the big three most predominantly in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper discusses the different relationships between the diseases and infections and what occurs as a result of the overlap. It is explained how additional…

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    Health Crisis In Canada

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    SARS as a disease that was spreading fast through the contact of the mucous membrane, the Public health of Ontario must had to face many challenges, because not had preparation and a plan to respond to the outbreak immediately, by the overcrowding of the health facility, inadequate controls to prevent transmission of the disease, the lack of laboratories to carry out an effective investigation about the disease and its causes to allowing avoid major risks. (Arnold, 2009) An emergency department…

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