Paper On Q Fever

B. Scarlet fever is an acute and communicable disease. The symptoms associated with scarlet fever are a red rash that feels like sandpaper, a sore throat, and a high fever. It is a disease that mainly affects children who are 5-15 years old, but “anyone can get scarlet fever.” (CDC, 2017). Scarlet fever is acquired “through a bacterial infection caused by group A strep” (CDC, 2017). This group A strep is the same bacteria that causes strep throat (CDC, 2017). The fever is acquired when Group A strep bacteria inhabits a person’s nose and throat. Scarlet fever is caused by group A strep bacteria that is able to be transmitted “through contact with droplets from an infected person’s sneeze or cough” (CDC, 2017). In addition, it could also spread when “a person drinks from the same glass or eats from the same plate as the person who is ill” (CDC, 2017). This means that scarlet fever can be transmitted in an airborne or vehicle borne way. Taken from a publication in the pharmacist

Yellow Fever was like a massive fire burning through Philadelphia killing thousands and thousands of people! It was also like a lightning bolt which struck the earth as hard as a runaway train. If you did not know, Yellow Fever is a horrific disease which comes from certain diseased, or infected mosquitoes. The Philadelphian and French doctors had to come up with a solution, or clarification. They both came up with a cure that they thought would be able to help people with the illness. This certain event happened in the summer of 1793 in Philadelphia. The mosquitoes came from some ships that sailed over seas into Philadelphia ports . There was between 2000-5000 people dead. It almost feels like 10,000 were dead! Yellow Fever still exist

The more spores that are inhaled the more severe the infection symptoms are. If the Spherules are diagnosed in the beginning stage of infection then the infected may have a higher chance of survival for those that have inhaled a large amount. 60% of people infected with Valley Fever will only have symptoms of a slight mild “cold” and most will not seek or need medical attention (Davis, 2014) If the Spherules arrive at the lungs and are able to grow and reproduce and break open multiple amounts of time the infected may show signs of the flu or pneumonia. These symptoms can include cough, fever, headache, chills, sweats, chest pain or discomfort, and exhaustion. (kerncountyvalleyfever, 2015) Other symptoms in this phase can include joint discomfort and stiffness, and possible rash outbreak. These symptoms can last from two to six weeks after infected. Only about 30-35% of people show this advance of symptoms. (Davis, 2014) The other 1-5% are unfortunate that the Spherules spores were able to break away from just attacking the lungs and were able to spread to other parts of the body. With this stage of infection the symptoms are much more severe and can be life threating. Most of the severe cases are caused because the infected does not seek medical attention to receive anti fungal medication that stops the spread and assist the immune system in the control. Symptoms of this are coughing of blood, lesion on the

Typhus is a deadly disease. It is caused by infection, which comes from rickettsia bacteria. Fleas, lice, ticks, and mites transmit rickettsia bacteria when they bite you. There are 3 types of Typhus. The 3 types are endemic, epidemic, and scrub. Epidemic Typhus is caused by lice, ticks, and body louse. Endemic Typhus is caused by flea, rats, and cat flea. Scrub Typhus is caused by louse, mites, fleas, ticks, and lice. You can easily get scrub Typhus in lice-infected areas. Once the bacteria is in the bloodstream, they continue to reproduce and grow. Typhus can last for 10-12 days at a time. All of the symptoms can occur. Typhus leaves red dots on the human skin. It can become deadly if left untreated. Although the 2 major (most common) types

During this period the person is not contagious. The first symptoms usually appear between the 12th or 14th day. After the incubation period a raveling onset of flu-like symptoms will unfold: high fever (a fever of 101 the person is highly contagious), chills, malaise, abdominal pain, headache, severe fatigue, severe back pain, vomiting, and overall discomfort. After these symptoms the rashes with flat red spots appear at this point the person is highly contagious; it will first appear on the face, hands, forearms, legs and later on the trunk. Many of the lesions will turn into small blisters filled with clear fluid which then turns into pus. After eight to nine days the blisters will be a scab which will begin to fall of leaving deep pitted scars.

Diagnostic test would include, CBC with differential, ESR, platelet count, CRP, liver transaminases, gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT), and urinalysis. CRP will be elevated but ESR is sometime normal. Blood, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, and group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus pharyngeal cultures may be collected to identify other sources of fever. Diagnostic test would be done to confirm or rule out the diagnosis of Kawasaki disease (Burns, Dunn, Brady, Starr & Blosser, 2013).

grade fever. The severity of symptoms is typically dependent on the patient’s age. In infants,

Fever is a wonderful historical fiction by Laurie Halse Anderson. She has written many historical novels and Fever is one of her greatest works. This story took place in Philadelphia in 1793, when yellow fever just began to strike and kill thousands of people .

Hospital records were examined, and those with diagnosed RS with the precedent viral illness were selected as cases. In these studies, school classmates were matched as controls based upon age, sex, and antecedent of illness. Second, an additional study conducted in Michigan examined the relationship between juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and RS. Cases were selected via medical records from the Division of Diseases Surveillance at the Michigan Department of Public Health between 1982 and 1983. Those with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, long-term aspirin therapy, and RS were compared to cases ex RS. In 1982, an animal study examined RS symptoms in ferrets, aspirin ingestion, and an arginine deficient diet. This experimental study was divided into eight groups, differing between a control, influenza, aspirin, and arginine diet and the combination of exposures. Another study examined medical records from the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Sydney, Australia for cases of RS. The population was examined for detailed medical records and the Centers for Disease Control case definition of RS. Lastly, an additional study in Australia compared cases of RS to controls matched for age, date seen at the hospital, and symptoms. Noted there are countless other studies, commentaries, and reviews regarding RS and aspirin, these are just a

Typhoid fever is a dangerous bacterial infection. The only source of the causative agent of typhoid fever is a person sick or carrier. You can get typhoid fever if you eat food or drink water that have been handled by a person who is shedding Salmonella Typhi or if sewage contaminated with Salmonella Typhi bacteria gets into the water you use to drink or washing fruit. The danger of the patient varies through the disease and this explains of the features of the typhoid fever. Infected often spread pathogen into the environment within fourteen days,

In Quarantine, David , a former jock turned outsider shows that anyone can rise up to lead when times are hard. After David and his brother, Will are at the first day of high school for Will, a sudden twist happens in the story, when there is an explosion on the left side of the school. After that every teacher mysteriously starts dying out of nowhere. This means every high school kid at McKinley High is stuck in the school with no adults and barely any food. It turns out that every kid has a disease that is lethal to everyone except teenagers, so at a certain point the kids will be able to leave. Soon every kid at school will have to join a group of kids to help survive in a quarantined high school.

Q Fever is an infection caused by Coxiella burnetii. This infection commonly infects livestock such as sheep, goats and cattle. Infection can be transmitted to human from animal waste, infected animals’ birth products or direct contact with an infected animal. Infection in humans usually occurs via inhalation of infected droplets or infected barnyard dust.

Q-fever is an illness caused by the bacterium, Coxiella Burnetti, a type of bacterium found worldwide except for New Zealand. Transmission to humans is almost always from livestock such as cattle, sheep and goats as well as their attendant ticks. In Australia, Q-fever was first identified as a human disease in 1935. This occurred when large numbers of workers at a Brisbane abattoir became sick with an unknown illness, this illness was then referred to as query-fever due to it’s unknown cause, therefore coining the name Q-fever.

Typhoid fever is caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi, a member of the genus Salmonella, which is included in the Enterobacteriaceae family. Salmonella typhi cells are aerobic, gram negative rods that

Our first thought of fever is the association with a common cold, but in some cases fever can be symptoms of other types of infections. The human body is a complex and sophisticated machine, in which all of the components must maintain a complex balance in order to ensure optimal function. This is known as homeostasis and there are various homeostatic variables in which temperature is one of them. Homeostasis ensures that the body’s internal environment is kept at fairly constant/stable core properties. A fever is usually triggered by an infection and is a natural inflammatory response. Fever is an elevation in the body temperature that is caused by cytokine-induced upward displacement of the hypothalamic thermoregulatory center (Mattson-Potth,2014). A fever is caused by numerous types of microorganisms and substances called pyrogen. When these pyrogens release chemicals into the bloodstream, the human resets the hemostat to a higher temperature. The following paper will explain how fever is often related to a bacterial infection, clinical manifestations of localized inflammation, blood work order when there is a suspected bacterial infection and manifestation of a systematic response to an infection.