Tuberculosis treatment

wherever insanitary conditions abound. The most important public health concern is the potential of houseflies to transmit a large number of pathogens including microorganisms for diseases viz. typhoid, cholera, bacillary dysentery, diarrhoea, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, anthrax, yaws etc. and many parasitic worms 1-5. The control of Musca domestica is therefore important not only for human health but comfort as well. Baits are one of the most commonly used measures for housefly control. They…

through few ways such as sexual contact and blood transfusion. Once a person gets infected, he will normally interact with three stages of infection which are known as acute, chronic (the latent or asymptomatic) and finally AIDS (1). When there is no treatment, HIV infection will progress from one stage to another and weaken the immune system during this process until it finally reaches AIDS. However, HIV medicines and antiretroviral therapy (ART) can stop HIV from advancing to AIDS (1). This…

three corners- 1) Agent, that causes the disease; 2) Host, or organism that harbors the diseases; 3) Environment, or external factors that causes or allows for the disease transmission. In the case of TB disease, the agent is the Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and sometimes Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis), M. africanum. M. canetii and M. caprae. The host factors are low immunity, poor nutrition, and co-infection or concurrent disease (e.g. HIV). The environmental factors are crowded conditions, poor…

Health, Food and Globalization If the movement of people, food, and manufactured goods can have such a negative impact on public health, should steps be taken to reduce these flows? What other options are there for lowering the spread of global diseases? I feel like in the world we live in today it is nearly impossible to reduce the flow of people coming and going. Globalization has introduced the migration of people and it has taken on an immense effect all over the world. Unless things change…

Name: Chelsy Oubre Causative Agent: Mycobacterium tuberculosis Disease: Tuberculosis (TB) Classification of the causative agent: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an Acid-fast Gram-positive bacteria History: M. tuberculosis is the leading cause of death with people that are infected with HIV. TB kills a 5000 people on a daily basis. Virulence factors of the causative agent: Mycobacterium tuberculosis enters the body then continues to the lungs. The bacteria while in the alveolar…

Since the first cases were reported in 1981, AIDS has been affecting the lives of many people in the United States. Perceptions of HIV/AIDS have change dramatically over the pass of the years. Contracting the HIV virus meant a death sentence, however with medical improvements and the introduction of more efficient drugs a person with HIV can in a way live a normal life. And because of the advances in medicine people infected with HIV are living longer. Nevertheless, after a person gets infected…

Mary Fisher’s “A Whisper of AIDS” speech is arguably one of the most important speeches ever given in American history. When discussing the epidemic of AIDS, Fisher gives a voice to the victims who do not have the power to be heard, she makes the audience realize that change needs to be made because not addressing the problem just because it is not your problem, only makes it worse. She changes the mindset of many people as she gets her point across the audience that people with AIDS are human…

The funding, in turn has led an increase in the number of people receiving treatment through the life prolonging Anti-Retroviral Therapies (ARV). However, only 2 million people actually received treatment in middle and low income countries, although it fall short of the 7.1 million people estimated to be in urgent need of ARVs (Elbe 2009: 76). Meanwhile, in the year 2000, 189 UN Member States…

Robert S. Desowitz tells the story of two well-known diseases that affect many rural villagers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America of his novel The Malaria Capers. The first section of the book deals with Kala azar, which is transmitted by a fly. Desowitz begins the novel by introducing a tragic story in India of a distressed mother with a sick child. She traveled miles from her small village to a clinic, where her daughter was diagnosed with Kala azar or Visceral Leishmaniasis. The child is…

Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis. By Jennifer Brier. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 289 pp. $39.95) In Infectious Ideas, Jennifer Brier effectively argues that the AIDS epidemic had a deep effect on the American political landscape. Viewing modern history from the perspective of the AIDS crisis, she provides new understandings of the complex political and social trends of the 1980s era. She sets the tone for the book in her first paragraph…