Lassa fever

To fully comprehend the effect the yellow fever had on Pennsylvania in 1793, it is necessary to understand disease itself. This instance of widespread yellow fever in Philadelphia is known as an epidemic. An epidemic occurs when there is a pathogen present in the same area area as vulnerable a large number of people vulnerable to the said pathogen. Another common term for an epidemic is outbreak, but an outbreak usually occurs within a more limited area than an epidemic. An epidemic or outbreak can

Image result for Chikungunya The chicken gun is an infectious disease and is transmitted to humans through mosquito bites. Symptoms of the disease include high fever, joint pain, muscle pain, headache, nausea, fatigue, and rash. Arthritis is often undermined and causes can vary at each stage in this period. The disease can resemble the symptoms of dengue virus and disease in many parts of the disease can be diagnosed as wrong in theirs. There is no cure, but treatment reduces disease symptoms due

dengue fever. The thought of contracting this illness is not ideal for the perfect winter getaway but is beginning to become a somber reality with the dramatic increase of incidences in tropical climates globally. Dengue fever, also historically known as break-bone fever, is caused by the dengue virus and is endemic in tropical areas around the world. If severe, the illness can progress to more serious conditions, including dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. Dengue fever is emerging

nations to prevent it. Key Terms Defined Dengue- is defined by the Oxford Dictionary to be “a debilitating viral disease of the tropics, transmitted by mosquitoes, and causing sudden fever and acute pains in the joints”. Those most likely to have dengue are young children, the elderly

called Scarlet Fever. Scarlet fever is an infection caused by streptococcus. This caused a sore throat, fever, and a very red rough rash that started in the torso area and would soon spread over the entire body. Scarlet fever mainly targeted children from the age of four to the age of eight. But anyone can get Scarlet fever. It would almost look like the person infected had been badly sunburnt. The tongue and lymph nodes would also become very swollen after the person had caught Scarlet fever. Scarlet

tropical countries of the American, African and Asian region. As this has occurred, dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) has emerged and produced epidemics in many countries of the region. What is Dengue? The first reported epidemics of

Dengue Fever is a well-known arbovirus infection persistently affecting the tropical and subtropical areas sharing similar characteristics of overcrowding, clammy warm climate, poor economic and moving toward industrialization. (1) The incidence of dengue fever is escalating each year mostly in Southeast Asia, America and the Pacific’s adding to the world’s burden of the disease (1,2) Dengue virus is a member of flavivirus genus family that includes also West Nile virus, yellow fever, zika and Japanese

begin Segment 3 by drafting an outline of the main points that both compare and contrast “Typhoid Fever” and “The Education of Frank McCourt.” Please note, for this segment, you are not writing an entire essay. You are filling out the Compare and Contrast Organizer. Make sure to answer the following in your organizer, using complete sentences: • List two main points discussed in “Typhoid Fever.” What was the story about? What should a reader take from the story? • List two main

Dengue History Dengue fever is considered to be a viral illness in 1906. Its first signs were cited in Chinese Encyclopedia in Chin Dynasty (AD 265-420). Because of its association with airborne arthropods close to water, it was called as the water poison (Khanani, Arif, & Shaikh, 2011). The word dengue is derived from Swahili saying Ka-Dinga Pepo meaning cramp like seizures. Its first documented outbreak occurred concurrently in Asia, Africa and North America in 1780s and the first clinical case

Introduction to Environmental Health: Communicable Disease-Scarlet Fever Introduction: Scarlet fever, also known as scarlatina, is an infection caused by Group A Streptococcus bacteria (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). It is spread from human to human through inhalation of droplets from the sneezing and coughing, eating or drinking using the same cutlery or glass, or through direct skin contact of an infected person (Duncan, 2015). Group A Streptococcus bacteria are often found