Typhoid fever

collapses, typhus is the result. This paper will explore the cause of typhus, treatment, and how typhus has impacted the course of history. Typhus is a rickettsial disease, relating to other disease such as Anaplasmosis and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. There are three different types of typhus, murine typhus, scrub typhus, and the notorious epidemic typhus (Walker). Epidemic typhus is caused by an organism named Rickettsia prowazekii. R. prowazekii was first identified by Howard Taylor Ricketts

symptoms and side effects include extremely high fevers, inflammation of the eyes, tongue, and throat, and severe cough before causing rashes, throwing up, extreme thirst, and finally, if the patient has survived this long, he starts to experience diarrhea and severe ulcerations, as well as possible loss of the genitals,

sick with a high fever, the pulse rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure are typically elevated above normal ranges. It is very common for diseases that cause a fever to also present with an increase in blood pressure, and pulse rate. When there is a high fever, but a person’s heart rate is below the expected value it is known as relative bradycardia. This is clinically important because there are a few diseases that often present with such a condition, one of them is typhoid fever.  What is your

It has been said by many scholars that the true victor of the First World War was disease and illness. Statistics show that over one third of military related deaths were caused by a disease/illness of some sort. To put that in more of a numerical visual, there were about ten million casualties in the span of World War I, this is excluding civilians, only military personnel. Of that ten million, about two million deaths were caused by disease/illness (Nadège Mougel, 2009). This number could me more

25-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with two days of fever, chills, and sweats. These symptoms began abruptly, and were accompanied by malaise, headache, dry cough, myalgias, and decreased appetite. She denied photophobia, neck stiffness, chest pain, dyspnea, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, or dysuria. While the symptoms are non-specific, an infectious cause is most likely given the relatively abrupt onset of fever, chills, sweats, malaise, and myalgias. Further details of her past

this time period life in large cities was characterized by many deaths due to infectious disease. According to the death records collected from the year 1902 to 1904 by the city of Toronto, 8.1% of the total population died from gastroenteritis or typhoid. For the purposes of comparison, it is important to note that the mortality burden of all infectious diseases at this time period was extremely high, with these cases making up to 41.3% of the total population mortality. There were numerous social

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 • Tetanus • Tuberculosis • Typhus • Viral hemorrhagic fever • Whooping cough • Yellow fever • Acute Encephalitis- is caused by a viral

Typhus Fever and its Effects on Humans The purpose of this paper is to discuss a disease called Typhus fever, it is caused mainly by bacteria called Rickettsia typhi or R. prowazekii, in an article from AJN online website, James A. Dolce, M.D. writes about the American scientist, Howars T. Ricketts, who identified them and who also died of typhus fever while he investigated the way in which the infection spreads, hence the name Rickettsia, in his honor. The disease is transmitted by ectoparasites

Medical Assistants Travel Guide to Madagascar Officially known as the Republic Of Madagascar, this island is the fourth largest island in the world being referred to by some travelers as the “sixth continent”. The island is located in the southern hemisphere, three hundred miles off of the lower east coast of Africa. This country experiences only two seasons consisting of a hot and rainy season and a cool and dry season. The hot and rainy season runs from November through April and the cool

on the surrounding ecosystem. First , A tsunami can lead to deadly diseases .The diseases that can be caused by a tsunami are cholera , Typhoid fever , skin diseases , Malaria fever , and Dengue fever. The disease that is spread usually depends where the natural disaster occurred . The most dangerous disease that can be caught is Malaria fever . Malaria is one of the top 10 deadliest diseases in the world .Malaria is a disease caused by getting bitten by an infected mosquito that transfers