Neglected diseases

In my student selected novel, “Fever, 1793”, many different events took place that wouldn’t happen in today's time. The biggest being the Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia. It was widespread and grew like wildfire across Mattie’s hometown. The citizens had a hard time getting rid of the fever. Not until the frost came did the death count go down along with the number of people getting sick. In today's time we have more advanced systems in which we can take down a virus. Doctors have a…

Introduction The scientific study of Huntington’s Disease (HD) had began in 1872, by George Huntington who is a family physician that had published a report on the clinical symptoms and peculiar mode of inheritance of the disorder.(1, 2) Huntington’s disease has 3 subtypes according to the age onset, which are infantile, juvenile and the adult-onset.(2) Individuals with Huntington’s disease can become asymptomatic between the ages of 1 and 80 years.(3) The typical mean age of onset is 40 years,…

doctors were getting sick while examining them. There was pretty much no way around it. If you were a doctor, there was no way you weren’t going to not get this disease because of the close contact with the patients with the disease. People in the war needed assistance with doctors since there were so many soldiers getting sick and dying. The army contacted the public health services and asked if they could send nurses and doctors to where they needed them. But with that being said, World War…

The leading cause of death for chronic virus infection in the United States is caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV), an infectious disease that causes liver inflammation. There are five types of hepatitis, hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E, hepatitis C virus being the most serious of the four. HCV is not a sexually transmitted disease; it is contracted through direct contact to infected blood, and from contaminated medical supply. According to the World Health Organization, hepatitis C is most…

Cancer is a disease that can occur anywhere in the body which is caused by a damaged gene that are forced to work that causes cancer cells to grow out of control. Some types of cancers grow and spread quickly throughout the body or take more time to grow. A tumor forms with most cancers, though some are benign meaning not cancerous while ones with cancer are called malignant. One form of cancer known as ovarian cancer is the one that this research paper presents information about. Ovarian cancer…

the global battle with infectious diseases was largely over, thus the focus to ascertain causes, treatments, prevention, and cures for chronic illnesses (Sattenspiel, 2000). This belief can be justified in Western Europe and the United States, but it was certainly not warranted for most parts of the globe. In contemporary history, the tropical regions have faced the scourge of infectious diseases than the temperate world. The thrive for these infectious diseases in the tropics is attributable…

without its shortcomings as its rather easier to transfer dangerous diseases such as Dengue and Ebola between places unnoticed! Communicable diseases continue to be a major problem globally accounted Gupta and Guin(2010), viewed on different pointers as potentially dangerous diseases such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome AIDS, Tuberculosis TB and Malaria. Gupta et al reckoned other diseases are less malicious…

The Walkerton tragedy is a testimony of undeniable operation negligence and government policy deficiency. Due to improper practices, over 2300 individuals became a victim of the lethal waterborne disease originating from E.coli contamination. After becoming informed of the tragedy and current water quality situation that Canada is in, 70% of Canadians are currently apprehensive about their water quality (XXX). In response to this catastrophic event, major changes and regulations were established…

play an important role in the rates of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in New Zeeland. The effect of implementing a social model of health in New Zealand shows in current rates of acute rheumatic fever. Wade and Halligan’s (2004), report on biomedical models state…

news and as she reflects on her new independence, her heart races, pumping blood through her veins. When she dies at the end of the story, the diagnosis of “heart disease” seems right because the shock of seeing her husband alive again was surely enough to kill her. But the doctors’ conclusion stating that “she had died of heart disease – of joy that kills (23)” the overwhelming joy seems quite strange because it had been the…