Yellow fever

A. Summary: In the wake of Zika virus, group of scientists tried to understand the cause and effect of this virus. Zika virus was carried by a mosquito. This virus was first experienced by an infant in Brazil as of 2015 and started to spread over Panama, Haiti, Mexico, and the United States. Scientists studied that Zika virus has led to microcephaly, as well as problems with the eyes, ears, and joints of the human infants. Moreover, because of this virus, infants might have seizures and…

symptoms, how you get it, and what is the history. Symptoms are. In most cases there is no symptoms. Inflammation cases zika can trigger paralysis in pregnant women. It may cause birth defects. Pain in the back of the eyes,joints,or muscles Whole body, fever,chills, loss of appetite or swearing also in common red eyes. How do you get it. Spreads through mosquito bites (aeds) a type of a mosquito. Scientist found a new virus in a rhus monkey in the zika forest. The virus is recovered from the…

can also spread from a mother to her fetus. This is more common and what presents the most serious dangers from the virus. Symptoms Those infected with Zika will show an array of non-emergent symptoms. Hallmark symptoms of this virus are: A mild fever, headache, conjunctivitis, rash, and joint pain (Gourinat, et al., 2014). In pregnant women the symptoms can become sever when they spread, via the placenta, to the fetsu. An infected fetus can be born with many birth defects. These defects range…

This disease manifests as severe joint and muscle pain, joint swelling, fever, among other symptoms. The epidemiologic triad applies to this disease as the mosquito infects the host via indirect transmission via the A. aegypti mosquito. These outbreaks are mostly seen in Asia, Europe, and the Americas; however, the CDC has predicted that this disease will eventually spread to southern US. It is misdiagnosed as dengue fever in many of the cases causing many them going undiagnosed. In this year…

A “virus” is defined as: “an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by a light microscope, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host” (Document B). Originating from Uganda, the Zika virus was first discovered in 1947 in an infected money in the Zika forest, where its name originates. The Zika virus is a typical one-stranded RNA virus with nucleotide sequences relating it to other African and Asian virus…

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…

Loiasis is called the African eye worm. It is caused by the parasitic worm Loa loa. This disease is transmitted by horseflies breeding in the forests of West and Central Africa. Loiasis gets its name from the well-known sign which is the visible passing of the Loa loa worm through the eye. Day to day the disease has receives little to no attention. Loiasis considered as a barrier to other disease control efforts. This is so because individuals with a large amount of Loa loa larvae in the blood…

article on the disease Zika. The article chronicles the journey of a 48 year old man, and then tells about the problems we face with Zika. It start with a man who showed up to a clinic with some strange symptoms: a rash that covered his body, high fever, back pain, and an eye infection. This man had been traveling prior to the symptoms in Polynesia and the South Americas. During his extensive travels he felt fine, although he was eaten by mosquitos, which didn’t bother him as he had gotten…

Carlos Finlay and the Yellow Fever On October 11, 1793, the death toll from the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia had reached 100. By the time this epidemic ended, 5,000 people (9% of the total population in the United States at the time) were dead (Frierson 2010). Due to an unknown cause of illness, in addition to the rapid onset of the disease, yellow fever would be regarded as one of the most devastating diseases at the time. We now know that yellow fever is a serious disease caused by an…

Yellow Fever were viewed by men positively and being a harmless preference, but what does Asian women think of Yellow Fever? Interestingly being Asian and growing up in America I have personally never experienced yellow fever, men have never approached me with a certain perception of who I am going be without actually talking to me first. On the other hand, I have an older sister who have experienced Yellow Fever. For example, when out in public walking and men would approach her and ask her for…