Puerperal fever

The virus is mostly transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids such as saliva and blood. Ebola can be difficult to detect in the beginning due to its signs and symptoms being similar to other diseases. Symptoms include crucially high fevers, weakness, trembling, severe headache, weakness, vomiting, muscle pain, lack of appetite, excessive amounts of diarrhea, and organs begin to fail causing internal…

The disease Ebola is causing an epidemic in Africa that is extremely dangerous on many fronts. Diseases are problems that must be faced by people of many different disciplines. However, the funds for fighting Ebola are not unlimited. One big problem of the disease right now is what to do with the money received from mainly Western aid. With the ultimate goal of deciding which danger of Ebola warrants the most financial aid from the world, each aspect of the disease’s negative effects must be…

Ebola Ebola is nothing to take lightly, although the most recent outbreak has passed, it’s still a deadly parasite that can possibly live in your body for weeks and you may not even know, slowly killing your body. Deadly, infectious, and should most definitely be avoided at all costs. Ebola is one of many deadly viruses that have killed many unsuspecting victims. Thousands of cases have been reported around the world, some of the victims being doctors in the U.S who risked their own lives to…

.Ebola is also known as the “ Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever.” The epidemic became a severe disease in humans and nonhumans since 1976. An infection with the Ebola Virus is the cause for disease. Originally, Ebola was named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) in Africa. Africa became one of the first areas where Ebola occurred. Four strains of the Ebola Virus recognized as diseases in humans were Ebola- Zaire, Ebola- Sudan, Ebola- Ivory Coast, and Ebola- Reston.…

The infected bioterrorist, could check into a resort hotel and await the onset of the fever that would indicate that their Zaire ebolavirus is now contagious. The next phase of the attack would begin with the infected, and contagious, terrorist making visits to Walt Disney World, restaurants, or other areas with crowds of people. The Florida heat and humidity would provide perfect cover for the feverish and sweating terrorist as they make physical contact by way of casual brushing up against…

In chapter 4 of Superfreakonomics, Steven D.Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner introduce many problems that seem to be very severe were eventually solved using relatively cheap and straightforward solutions. Through telling a series of stories, the authors carefully illustrate how simple fixes are applied to address complex problems. At the beginning of this chapter, Levitt and Dubner offer a soft opening – “The fix is in -and it’s cheap and straightforward (Levitt & Dubner 72)”, which leads to the…

suggested that the cause of every death was too (Semmelweis seal., n.d.). In the 1840’s, and due to an increasing rate of puerperal fever (also known as childbed fever) amongst new mothers, which is a condition that occurs when a woman experiences an infection related to giving birth (Ataman A., n.d.). A Hungarian doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that mortalities from puerperal fever can be remarkably reduced by the simple act of washing hands. He first introduced chlorinated lime…

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis (Great Discoveries.) By Sherwin B. Nuland. 191 pp., illustrated. New York, Norton, 2003. $21.95. ISBN: 0-393-05299-0 One out of every six women who delivered under the care of doctors and medical students at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus of Vienna died of a mysterious illness. Theories like miasmas and milk-metastasis (a blockage of breast milk that resulted in the redirection of milk into the body) tried to shed…

temperature(Orent 147). This disease could have been harmful to people because it would never have a season where it would die down because it survived in extreme temperatures. Puerperal fever was a disease that did not get any recognition during the Renaissance era because of the Black Death and its commotion it has stirred up. Puerperal fever is caused when a doctor is performing on a patient and the doctor did not sterilize their hands(Brown). These are other types of diseases that played an…

Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelwei. New York: W.W. Norton. Reviewed by: Nasra Hajir In The doctor’ plague by Sherwin Nuland, the author narrates history of medicine and how politics played a role in hindering medical progress. In the beginning of the chapter, the author began narrating about a young woman who died after delivering her first child. After his clinical observations and research, Ignac Semmelwei, an obstetric discovered about the childbed fever. This…