meningococcal disease in the U.S, and only 15 percent die of people who get meningitis (Statistics). However, after surviving from meningococcal disease, patients have high risks that they will have to live with permanent disabilities. Nowadays, meningitis becomes a rare condition in the U.S. because of the improvement of the vaccine. Comparing to the United States, many other countries in the world are still struggling with meningococcal disease. For instance, WHO reported a meningitis outbreak, which
and how to prevent the disease. There is no single biology class, in Niger’s educational system from middle school to high school that did not include a chapter on Malaria, and other infectious disease such as tuberculosis, meningitis. It is the starting point for my love for science. But most importantly, I found my life goal and dream; Help kicking Malaria outside of Niger (and Sub-Saharan Africa in general), and reducing the toll of preventable, and communicable diseases. I had everything figured
produce infectious diseases.7 Infectious diseases are ailments caused by the opportunistic pathogens already present in our bodies or other harmful microorganisms that were acquired from traveling, hospitals, outdoors, or encountering another infected human.8 According to Woolhouse and Gowtage-Sequeria, there are 1,407 recognized species of human pathogen, 58% of which are zoonotic and 177 are regarded as emerging or reemerging.13 The leading public health institute is the Centers for Disease Control
people who survive an infectious disease do not get the same disease again is the basis for the administering of vaccinations. Vaccines are normally given to healthy individuals for the prevention of diseases. Vaccines work by using a human host to provide a stimulus to the immune system. Immunization is used for viral and bacterial diseases. Rappuolli reports and predicts, "Vaccines will not only be used to prevent
Topic B: New Diseases There are currently many features of modern society that increase ours risk for the development and spread of new infectious diseases, these include such diseases as lymes Disease, West Nile Virus, Staph. Aures (MRSA) and many other new and remerging infectious diseases. In modern society the main issues that are faced include such things as the density of the population, the increased resistance to current antibiotics and antibacterial agent, changing biodiversity, climate
Notifiable diseases: • Acute Encephalitis • Acute Infectious hepatitis • Acute meningitis • Acute poliomyelitis • Anthrax • Botulism • Brucellosis • Cholera • Diphtheria • Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever) • Food poisoning • Haemolytic uraemic syndrome • Infectious bloody diarrhea • Invasive group A streptococcal • Legionnaires disease • Leprosy • Malaria • Measles • Meningococcal septicemia • Mumps • Plague • Rabies • Rubella • Severe acute respiratory syndrome • Scarlet fever • Smallpox
your child for the following reasons: Meningitis is a serious infection of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. It is caused by meningococcal disease, which is contracted by 1,000 to 2,600 people yearly in the United States. Meningococcal disease is also serious, with one in ten cases leading to
How Can We Protect Ourselves Against Infectious Disease? An infectious disease is caused by a pathogenic microorganism such as virus, bacteria, protists and fungi. It can spread directly or indirectly from human to human or from human to animal, which is called zoonotic. For infectious diseases such as AIDS or Hepatitis B, it is transmitted via breast-feeding, contaminated injections/transfusion and unprotected sex. Diseases like bird flu such as Influenza and SARS, they are transmitted via droplets
Viral Meningitis Dyanna Flores Health Science Technology 3/4/2016 Viral Meningitis Aseptic meningitis, otherwise known as Viral meningitis, is a viral infection that causes the lining of the brain and spinal cord to be inflamed. There are numerous viruses that can generate this infectious disease causing it to be life threatening in some cases. This is a common disease, but there’s less than 200,000 cases known in the US every year. This is an airborne disease, which
of communicable and non-communicable diseases. I will be investigating into various aspects of two specific diseases. A high level of knowledge will be demonstrated with a detailed description of both communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as an understanding of epidemiology. I will then find a communicable and non-communicable disease example and describe the biological basis of each disease with an explanation to how the body responds to the disease. A list of at least three of the different