Kuru Virus

Bodies line the streets, along with human waste and other garbage, further spreading the disease. Here am I tasked with attempting to research and attempt

5. In what ways could the virus have been passed to other people from the time Monet left his house until he arrived at Nairobi hospital?

also ended up dying and no treatment was given to infected adults and children. The primary document

Most diseases begin with what is called "the virgin field"—a scenario in which humans have no natural or man-made immunity to the disease. To see the progress of a disease in a particular community, start by predicting how many sick days will be reported when you run the Kold disease through a medium-sized population, and record your prediction in the data table. In this first run-through, we'll assume that the population does not move around the field; they interact with their neighbors, but do not travel long distances.

Humans are susceptible to many different diseases and unfortunately, these transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have death written all over them.

I recently read an article written in The NEWYORKER called The Deadliest Virus by Michael Specter. The article talked about the Avian Flu virus, also known as “bird flu”. In the article, Specter interviewed many people, but the most important person, in my opinion, is a virologist who conducted research on the Avian Flu, Ron Fouchier. This article raised many ethical questions. The questions are as followed: Should research be conducted on this virus? Does Fouchier’s research pose a threat? Does the risk of the work outweigh the benefits of the research?

Chapter 4 of the Nagami book dealt with AIDS and how it became a common infection in the population. In the book Dr. Nagami explained how mysterious the origin of the disease was in the beginning of the outbreak. There were various explanation for the origins. It was believed that amyl nitrate “poppers” could be a cause for the disease since homosexual men were known to use them before sex. It appeared predominately in the gay population at the time. Eventually it appeared in the intravenous drug using population, Haitians, people who underwent transfusions and eventually the heterosexual population. This unknown source of the disease was what caused fear in the early stages of the disease. Dr. Nagami explained how this caused fear even in the medical profession as some doctors moved away from treating HIV patients. Dr. Nagami herself changed her behavior being reluctant to shake hands with AIDS patients.

The Black Death took place most nations of the world, and conduced to the most tragic circumstance in mankind. In14th century, the Chinese population decreased 120 million to 80 million. Not only China, but also In London population was 1,000,000 during 1347’s, and it dropped off to 37,000 by the 1353’s (Tignor). In contrast, epidemic AIDS also terrifying disease that is taking over the world gradually, even though modern medical treatment continuing their effort to prevent it. As same as Black Death, AIDS is also causing a staggering loss of life. Around 12 million people have died all over the world since the first cases were reported in 1981(Tignor). Also, 1.5 million people died of AIDS-related causes in 2013. In 2011, the Caribbean became infected with HIV, and around 10,000 died of AIDS. In 2012, in the United States, about 13,712 people died from AIDS. Not only that, but also AIDS expanded towards Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where 92,000 died from AIDS in

The authorities found 3 possible suspects. One was a big Samoan dude, the other was a Chinese dude, and the last was a elderly lady. The authorities worked industriously to find the suspect and they tried to be as impartial as they could. They acknowledged the Samoan guy and he was furious that they thought he started the disease. The authorities soon realized he was irrelevant. Then they went to the Chinese guy who couldn't speak English so he had an agent. The agent soon convinced that the Chinese guy wasn't the suspect. So finally they trekked to the old lady house went the population was still abating.

In this video Professor Blossom Damania talked about how KSHV sequence generates primers and how the virus Herpes exist on normal healthy people. I learned that the virus is waiting for something to go wrong so they can harm you. I also learned that KSHV was discovered because of the AIDS epidemic, but I didn't know that Kaposi Sarcoma was around longer than that. I learned that in 1872, Mortiz Kaposi described the cancer in Europe as blotches on the skin, which targeted older men because they are immunosuppressed. I learned that this is because, as you age your immune system goes down. I learned that in the 80’s there was no diagnosis of HIV so if someone show up with Kaposi Sarcoma, the doctors would use this as a sign that they have HIV.

Her infection began when she was bitten by a mosquito which was seeking her protein-rich blood to nourish its eggs. As part of the process of sucking the droplet of blood from the girl, the mosquito, simultaneously injected saliva to ease the flow of blood into its proboscis. Malaria-causing pathogens gathered in the mosquito’s salivary glands and traveled into the girl’s body. Once in the body, the wormlike parasites moved to the girl’s liver to embed themselves allowing them to feed and multiply. By the time a week had passed, each parasite had consumed an entire liver cell and had replicated upwards of 40,000 times. A short time later the infected cells had exploded and the parasites had reentered her bloodstream. Now showing symptoms

by this virus and many are as young as 12 years of age. Studies show

The fastest communication of the virus to humans were reported in turkey. Simultaneously, 1.5 million birds were killed to contain the virus. The symptoms of such a disease that the temperature of your body dramatically starts to increase followed by a cough. Then the host (humans) starts to experience a difficulty in breathing and a severe pain in the stomach most of it ends with diarrhea – a disease happens when our digestive system are not able any more to absorb liquids and minerals. A further exposure to the virus can lead to shock, the respiratory system stop working completely, and the other vital organs like liver fail to function normally and eventually death may occur.

In Sweden, where I live, the disease is not even seen as deadly anymore. Only approximately 6,500 Swedes are today infected

Because improvements in nutrition and sanitation have been made, many epidemics have ended. As longevity of life increases, chronic diseases have taken the place of infectious disease as the leading cause of death. The different modes of transmission, disease development, and disease spectrum are all important factors to consider when studying the transmission of communicable diseases. It is also important to know about emerging infectious diseases. It is important to be aware of these diseases so that signs of these symptoms can be easily recognizable to provide the best patient care.