Communicable Disease HCS/457- Public and Community Health Jeffrey Rhoades November 26‚ 2012 Communicable Disease Communicable disease is defined as an infectious disease transmissible (as from person to person) by direct contact with an affected individual or the individual’s discharge or by indirect means (Merriam Webster‚ m-w.com). A communicable disease can be transmitted through fluid exchange or by a vector. Hepatitis B is a known communicable disease still affecting the United States
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Heart disease‚ strokes and high blood pressure The heart: Our heart is a vital organ; it is a super muscle which constantly pumps our blood around our body at a rate of 40 to 100 beats per minute for a lifetime. It never tires. The heart has two sides which are separated and each side has two chambers. Valves make sure blood can only flow in one direction. The right side receives de-oxygenated blood from the body through the vena cava and pumps it through the pulmonary artery to the lungs‚ and the
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Huntington’s Disease Huntington’s Disease (HD) is a hereditary neurological disorder of the central nervous system that causes progressive degeneration of cells in the brain. This degeneration causes the affected person to slowly loose the ability to move‚ communicate and think. People are born with this disease‚ but won’t develop symptoms until between the ages of 30 – 50. Although Huntington’s disease can be traced back to the Middle Ages‚ it was first described by American physician George
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and Rubella vaccine‚ the World Health Organization has plans for worldwide eradication of the diseases. The World Health Organization has come up with a strategic plan to eradicate measles and rubella by implementing a plan to use the forced immunizations like the US has done. The lack of education‚ and more importantly‚ financing has slowed the process of eradicating these completely preventable diseases.(World Health Organization‚2012)Retrieved from: http://www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/Measles_Rubella_StrategicPlan_2012_2020
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of deaths in the world due to an antivirus for the new Rhinovirus C. I thought that this article was very interesting. It caught my attention because I always like learning new things about diseases. It is also very helpful to the human diseases industry‚ and it is always good to reduce the amount of diseases in the world. Works Cited
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Lyme Disease Introduction & Symptoms | Causes & Treatments | Recommended Web Sites Lyme disease is transmitted by tiny ticks of the Ixodidae family and afflicts about 10‚000 people yearly. Initially identified in a group of children in Lyme‚ Conn.‚ the disease has now been found in nearly all states and 18 other countries. About 90 percent of cases are reported in three areas: the northeast and mid-Atlantic states (Massachusetts to Maryland)‚ the upper Midwest (Minnesota and
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Informative Speech So who here loves to travel? I personally love to travel and see new places‚ I have yet to travel overseas into Europe‚ but it’s definitely on my list of new adventures. I have been to parts of Mexico countless times‚(like Cancun and Cabo San Lucas) and to the Virgin Islands a couple of times‚( St. Croix was the island I visited)‚ and then I went to Costa Rica for about a month a couple of summers ago‚ and stayed in Ocotal‚ which is the very western side of Costa Rica‚
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is a disease that affects one in three members of the American population. Obesity is when excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health‚ leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems. People are considered obese when their body mass index (BMI)‚ a measurement obtained by dividing a person’s weight in kilograms by the square of the person’s height in meters exceeds 30 kg/m2. Obesity increases the likelihood of several diseases particularly
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January‚ 2013 H.S.B Project: DISEASES Teacher: ………………………………….. INTRODUCTION The difference between good health and disease is that health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans‚ it is the general condition of a person’s mind‚ body and spirit‚ usually meaning to be free from illness‚ injury or pain (as in “good health” or “healthy”) whiles a disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of
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Abstract Human diseases such as Lyme disease (borreliosis)‚ Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Ehrlichiosis continually affect the population of Tamaulipan Biotic Providence‚ area shared between Texas and Mexico. The tick Ixodes scapularis tends to be the main carrier for Borrelia bacteria‚ which causes borreliosis. Nonetheless‚ its absence in the area studied gave cue to the analysis of another tick‚ Amblyomma inornatum. It is important to characterize the disease potential of the latter tick in
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