Typhoid fever

mom and dad rushed downstairs to see what was wrong with Tiny Tim. They tried to find the closest hospital. The closest one was 5 miles. They drove as fast as they can to save their son. By the time they got to the hospital, they predicted he had a fever of 105 degrees. The doctors let Tiny Tim get treated right away. They said that he had a very slim chance of still living. About a 10% chance to stay alive. The doctor tried their best to save him, but they said that his best chance would be to go

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

CSEC BIOLOGY SUMMER RESEARCH PAPER DISEASE & ITS IMPACT ON HUMANS This research is aimed at informing the reader on different types of diseases and the impact it has on humans. Enclosed herein are details on the types, treatments, transmissions and descriptions of different diseases in the region and around the world.

During the Civil War, medicine was an important aspect for every soldier due to the fact that many soldiers had to fight and ended up with injuries also there were many types of illnesses. In this essay, I will focus on the advance of medicine during the Civil War. Also how the soldiers and civilians were treated as well as how sanitize their location was, are questions I will try to answer. Also, I will like to include some of most known causes of deaths during the Civil War and the types of diseases

not 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

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

1. Introduction Mass casualty situations are common with most of the natural disasters like earth quake, tsunami, flood, avalanche, explosion, accidents, building collapse, military operations and terrorism. Injuries and wound infections are very common in such disasters that need immediate management; otherwise it may lead to morbidity and mortality. Medical management is very difficult at that situation as the access to hospital sector would be either not possible or difficult. Autoinjectors are

infected with a deadly virus know as yellow fever. The ship landed in the New World and thrived in the hot wet climate and on the white settlers. The New World has never come in contact with yellow fever and as a result no immunities have been built up. The virus obtained its name from the way it turns the victim’s skin and eyes a golden yellow. Victims also suffer from very high fevers, external and internal bleeding, and blackish vomit. In America yellow fever killed thousands of peoples, halted trade

the reason he had this seizure was because in just a short time he went from being a normal kid to having a such a high temperature that his body reacted in quite a frightening and scary way. They gave him a shot of Motrin and we waited until his fever started to come down. There have been other times that have been challenging in being a single parent, but we have gotten through them with the help of friends and family. As he got older he was diagnosed as having Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of

Do we really know what the “truth” is? How can we distinguish what the truth is in real life? Are you every completely sure of the truth? In the Question of the Truth Unit we read a variety of selections based off of people’s perception of the truth, though in many of these selections the truth wasn’t what people expected. These selections help develop a contrast between how things seem on the surface, and how they really are. A couple of these selections accept the surface appearance of things as