Infectious And Deadly Diseases : An Indispensable Approach For Understanding Epidemics Of Infectious Diseases

The film ‘How Social Networks Predict Epidemics’ by Nicholas Christakis explores the influence of social networks on people’s lives and how it can be used to predict epidemics.Social networks are key connectors among individuals in all societies today. They are avenues through which people learn and share many new things with others. Social networks are so instrumental in determining many issues like employment and salaries, and the transmission of diseases. It is, therefore, crucial to comprehend why and how the networks influence the patterns as they do.

Globalization has created a strong tendency for young people around the world to follow a series of norms, generally attributed to Western civilizations, seeking to construct this idealized image of what beauty should be. Popular media, intentionally or not, has managed to successfully disseminate all over the globe. "The Globalization of Eating Disorders" written in 2003 by English professor and feminist philosopher Susan Bordo, makes some strong points that seriously need to be taken into account if we want to identify and subsequently fight to eradicate a variety of psychological problems, which are product from self-image insecurities a person

The first epidemic disease discussed by the author was the Black Death and how it impacted western Europe in the mid 1300’s. The disease started its first mysterious outbreak near the Black Sea in what is now southern Ukraine; the victims that were affected by it suffered from headaches, staggered when they tried to walk and felt weak. Their armpits would swell by the third day and their hearts would beat fast while trying to pump blood through the swollen tissue. The victim's nervous system started to collapse causing pain and bizarre arm and leg movements, as the victim’s death got closer the mouth gaped open and the skin started turning black from internal bleeding. The victim’s last day usually came on the fifth day after being infected with the disease.

1) Do contact networks explain infectious disease spread? Can the network of interactions between individuals explain the spread of infectious diseases in animal populations?

The Center for Infectious Diseases Division of Communicable Disease Control, an Immunization Branch Senate Bill 277 was signed by Governor Brown on June 30, 2015. Effective one year from now in July 2016, SB 277 will no longer permit immunization exemptions based on personal beliefs for children in child care and public and private schools; permit personal belief exemptions submitted before January 1, 2016 to remain valid until a pupil reaches kindergarten or 7th grade.

Discuss a recent epidemic/pandemic of interest to your profession, what role did members of your profession play in this event, and how prepared do you believe these HCPs were for this role?

The outbreak engulfing three countries in West Africa began in Guinea when a toddler contracted the virus from eating an infected bat in an impoverished village where bushmeat is a dietary staple – again highlighting the disparity in living standards and socio-economic status between core and peripheral nations. Infectious disease like Ebola have mostly been exorcised from developed countries because a basic level of health is ensured through the government, private sector, or social agency. Unfortunately, the poor in Guinea avoid seeking aid because they cannot afford to, as discussed above. Also, fear of and lack of trust in authority prevents individuals from seeking medical attention – this distrust has stemmed

The four ways a disease is spread are direct /indirect contact with another human being or a contaminated object, germs landing on another person when somebody coughs or sneezes, germs spreading on air currents, and after a child or adult touches contaminated blood or body liquids. After being exposed through these transmissions, the youngster or adult experiences mild to severe symptoms because their immune system is trying to fight back against the sickness that has entered the body. If there is no attempt at treatment and the symptoms become life-threatening, the youth or grown-up can die in a short time or suffer life-changing disabilities, depending on what illness they have received and how long it went untreated. Every type of illness

Infectious disease were shaped serious health issues in the world until beginning of 20th century, some disease as cholera, plaque were distribute significant proportions of the populations of European cities. (Barreto, Teixieira & Carmo, 2006).

The disease spreads from person to person through the air. By droplets from the nose and mouth of a person who has the disease germs. People can spread the disease before they show signs of being ill.

The statistic makes me sad that this epidemic is happening right under our noses. Therefore, I was really impressed of the knowledge Professor Villavicencio and Sarah gained from their trip. They brought back their wisdom and knowledge and shared it with us, where everyone in the audience had a chance to ask questions. Overall, as a society we tend to think it is not our problem but it is because these are our children so being in engaged in a discussion is a start.

I worked on the explanatory summary of Anatomy of an Epidemic assignment with Maria Cortes and Gustavo Martinez. We shared a positive attitude and environment and cooperated with one another. We all had done reading assignments given by our professor and had information about the topic to some extent. However, I felt that we did not have good communication between us. We had different perspective and our ideas of what the text said were different. Because of it, it was difficult for us to go to a conclusion and write a particular thing on our summary. I think Gustavo did a really good job because he was trying to find ways which could combine all of our concepts. He also seemed confident about what he read and was working together with us to

This chain of infection develops when each link connects to the other. That means it must links up together in order to be infectious diseases. However, the breaking away of any of the link will mean that, transmission of infection is stopped. On the other hand, breaking of any chain can stop the transmission of infection. The concept (infectious diseases) have been one of the major killers of both living and nonliving things and this term was recently replaced with chronic diseases as well as injuries as primary killers in the United States of America (Scutchfield, 2003). However, the main advances of infectious disease control to date have been the use of food and water protection as well as immunizations. This will be viewed as how it’s transmitted from one person to the other.

B) Pharmacy Student: We would need to obtain a sample of the peritoneal fluid using paracentesis, and then perform a gram stain and blood culture to see if there is bacterial growth.

Of the many diseases spread by insects, none are actually caused by the insects themselves but by other organisms passed on when they feed or bite. Insects are capable of spreading diseases caused by many different types of microorganisms including bacteria, viruses, protozoan and others. Mosquitoes have earned the title of "the most deadly creature on earth." This is due to the fact that they spread serious epidemic diseases such as Malaria, Yellow Fever, African Sleeping Sickness, and West Nile Virus.