Lassa fever

of people and animals from Europe to America at the end of the 15th Century brought with them infectious diseases,“to which native populations had never been exposed. Which included cholera, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and yellow fever”. That lead to the drastic decrease of population and development. “...several smallpox and measles epidemics devastated much of eastern North America between 1620 to 1630... Scholars estimate that as much as 90% of the

CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE Overview Cat scratch fever is also called cat scratch disease (CSD), it is a bacterial infection. The infection takes its name because most of the people get from cats infected with Bartonella Hensel ae, which is one of the most common bacteria in the world that mostly spread by the cat. Causes CSD is a bacterial infection spread which occurs by the bite and scratch by the cat but sometimes Dog and monkey bites also have been implicated, as well as thorns, pins, and splinters

to the hospital between May 2013 and July 2015 who met the study criteria were approached for participation. The study’s inclusion criteria were: (1) patients at least 15 years old; (2) presenting with clinical criteria for dengue defined as acute fever with at least two of the following symptoms: headache, retro-orbital or ocular pain, myalgia, arthralgia, rash, a positive tourniquet test (defined as the presence of ≥20 petechiae per 1 square inch), or leukopenia (defined as a white blood cell count

caused by getting shot or etc. Roughly 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Two thirds of the soldiers died of diseases, not from wounds. What kind of diseases did most soldiers get? Well the most common ones were Dysentery, Typhoid Fever, Ague, Yellow Fever, Malaria because the camps were not clean, the water got infected because they either dug there bathroom hole to close and it got in the water, and the camps were crowded with so many soldiers that the disease just got passed around really

Name: _________Mishana Sturdivant___ Date: _09/03/2012______ 1.3.1.2 - Human Homeostasis Vocabulary: dehydration, heat stroke, homeostasis, hypothermia, involuntary, thermoregulation, voluntary Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) A thermostat is a device that regulates the temperature inside a building. 1. What does a thermostat do if it gets too cool? __It would turn on the heater or turn off the A/C___________ 2. What does a thermostat do if it gets

Fever is one of the most shared symptoms among hospitalized patients. Studies have found that fever is a symptom found in approximately 29% of patients currently hospitalized (Aiyagari et al 2007). Healthcare practitioners, especially the doctors and the nurses that are caring for these patients choose to treat fever and are usually vague about when to start treatment. It is a common for a hospitalized patient with fever to obtain antipyretic therapy. Antipyretic medication for children with fever

Emerging Infectious Diseases Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are the third leading cause of death in the United States and the first leading cause of death worldwide (3). Thus, should EID's be considered an oncoming threat to human existence or is it God's response to our unbiblical stewardship of the Earth or is it nature's practical solution to overpopulation. Past EIDs Since the beginning of time, human existence has been overwhelmed by threatening diseases. To begin

Dengue fever is actually a very old disease and it started spreading worldwide in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was during this time where commerce and the shipping industry were expanding and it was becoming more often that goods were being transported via ships. “Both the principal mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti, and the viruses responsible for Dengue Fever were spread via sailing ships . . . Mosquitos used the stored water on the ships as a breeding site and could maintain the transmission.

Salmonella enterica typhi Introduction: Worldwide, typhoid fever affects roughly 17 million people annually, causing nearly 600,000 deaths. The causative agent, Salmonella enterica typhi (referred to as Salmonella typhi from now on), is an obligate parasite that has no known natural reservoir outside of humans. Little is known about the historical emergence of human S. typhi infections, however it is thought to have caused the deaths of many famous figures such as British author and poet

The Yellow Fever virus came from Central or East Africa. With transmission between primates and humans, the virus has been spread from there to West Africa. The virus was probably brought to the Americas with the slave trade ships from 1492 after the first European exploration. The first case of Yellow fever was recorded in Mexico by Spanish colonists in 1648. Consequently, the virus started to spread also in North America. In Philadelphia in 1793, more than the 9% of the population die. The American