After coming home from a vacation in 1928, Alexander Fleming saw something peculiar in one of his petri dishes. There was a ring that didn’t have any bacteria in it. This bacteria killer was called penicillium notatum, or Penicillin. While Alexander Fleming was away on his vacation, a rare mold spore landed in one of the petri dishes that Alexander left out. When Alexander came back, he didn’t notice anything right away. When a former lab assistant came by, he happened to grab the dish that…
The signs and symptoms of infection are important that a doctor checks the head, ears, throat, the spine, and the skin. Additional diagnostic tests are blood cultures, imaging of the brains and spinal cord, spinal tap (lumber puncture). In blood cultures show that it is able to identify specific bacteria. Imaging includes CT scan, MR, X-rays shows infection areas that associates with meningitis. In addition, for some patients who are determined…
Next for a couple of sessions I will lunge him in the surcingle putting the saddle pad under it to add more padding. You don’t need the saddle pad, but it will make it more comfortable for your horse, and you will need one once we start using the saddle. After your horse, has calmed down and is comfortable with the surcingle, and listening to your aids clearly, is saddling. You want to let your horse smell it and see it and be completely fine around it so that they don’t care about it at all.…
Vitiligo is an illness that was discovered early in the history. There are a lot of civilizations and religions had some opinion about the deficiency of pigmentation in the human body. "Small blemish" was the first and old name that is related to vitiligo more than 1500 years. In the 1879, Moritz Kaposi was the first one who discovered the lack of pigment granules of the vitiligo. In the last century, the name Vitiligo has been used to explain the illness process of losing the pigment cells.…
It does make some sense that when these infected particles survive in the air and on objects can even live for too longer within. Whereas, the dog’s body is already infected with these infections. So, if your dog sniffs the body or nose, then it is just that the dog is close enough to have kennel cough and can easily become infected within. Treatment for Kennel Cough If a kennel cough is detected that would probably go away on its initial…
Hepatitis C Hepatitis C, or Hepacivirus, is a virus that when contracted destroys the liver. The virus can never be fully cured, but people who have contracted it can take medication to control the symptoms. The virus is contracted through blood products or from mother to infant during pregnancy or nursing. The virus was found by multiple scientists at the Centers for Disease Control, in 1989. The scientists found that Hepatitis C was the result of nearly every case of hepatitis that wasn't…
Poliovirus was one of the most deadly viruses in the world. 25 years ago, polio was a disease in 125 countries and paralyzed and killed up to 350,000 people. The body system that is affected most by polio is the central nervous system. The virus Poliovirus Poliovirus enters your body through the mouth, and then eventually makes its way into the blood and central nervous system, where it will affect nerve tissue where it causes paralysis and wasting of muscle tissue. The virus can be prevented…
What does not destroy us makes us stronger. In ways we could become stronger, but not experiencing what happens in life can make us weak. The Black Plague is one prime example of this. People were dying, but we recovered from the plague and it did make the people stronger and have more knowledge of illnesses. We recovered from the plague and have improved immune systems than before. Though it could go either way. What almost destroys us can make us weak. An example of this could be cheetahs.…
Stage three of the disease is when an infected individual begins to exhibit opportunistic infections and CD4 count falls below 500/ ml. The final and heightened stages of HIV infection are often described as full-blown AIDS, wherein the immune system is significantly damaged. The symptoms of this stage include chronic symptoms like rapid weight loss, serious fever (reaching temperature of 100 degrees F), soaking night sweats, chronic diarrhea, vomiting, dry coughs, short breaths, distorted…
that usually enclose or protect the area surrounding the eye in order to prevent particulates, water or chemicals from striking the eyes. We needed gloves because we using hazardous chemicals and other materials that will protect our hands from infection and contamination. Mouth mask is intended to be worn by health professionals during surgery and during nursing to catch the bacteria shed in liquid droplets and aerosols…