days he graduated‚ got married and enrolled in the residency program at Mount Sinai. After working as a doctor for some years he moved to Ann Arbor‚ Michigan to work on finding a vaccine for the influenza virus. Eventually Salk and Dr. Francis were successful and discovered and administered an influenza vaccine for thousands of US Army recruits. In 1947 Salk got an exciting offer to work in his first independent lab in Pittsburg. Here he would join the fight against Polio. Salk formed a team of
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Contents Introduction General Precautions Wildlife Diseases of Public Health Concern Directly Transmitted Diseases Rabies Hantavirus Trichinosis Mosquito-borne Diseases Protozoa Helminthiasis Virus Tick-borne Diseases Colorado Tick Fever Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Tick-borne Typhus) Lyme Disease Tularemia Relapsing Fever Other Tick-borne Diseases Flea-borne Diseases Plague Murine Typhus Fever Commensal Rodent-borne Diseases Rat-bite Fever Leptospirosis (Weil’s
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breath. While all this is happening‚ you can’t see what is going on with you because your eyes are infected. This is what will happen to you if you are infected by the bird flu. Today‚ I am going to inform you about the Bird flu also known as the Avian Flu. I am going to explain where it comes from‚ how it affects us‚ and how the government and health officials are trying to stop the virus from spreading. The social significance of the bird flu is how much it has spread and how it threats our lives
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Harmful Habits & Infectious Disease Prevention Managing health and wellness is largely dependent upon our knowledge of controllable and uncontrollable risk factors that exist amongst people and within our environment. Our overall ability to maximize our level of wellness revolves around the choices made on a daily basis including our actions and our diets. In order to take our health seriously‚ we must learn to come to terms with the harmful effects of our decisions as well as the occasion of factors
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of staying active Staying active is important. It keeps one healthy‚ prevent one from falling ill easily and it also let one to look good and feel better. Staying active also helps to strengthen bones and muscle of one’s body. As viruses such as avian flu or swine flu are appearing‚ one should keep themselves healthy and not take the risk of having the illness. There are other benefits for staying active as well. Being active means that one will exercise regularly‚ with exercising regularly one
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local to national to global. An example of interdependency between a few programs would be how Dr. Margaret Hamburg (2011) discusses the interaction between the FDA‚ the CDC and other agencies. They all cooperated with each other during the H1N1 influenza virus breakout in 2010.The organizations and agencies devoted to public health at these different levels share many of the same functions including disease surveillance‚ policy development‚ and provision of access to health care. References
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and Emergency (A&E) with chief complaint of shortness of breath‚ productive cough and pleuritic chest pain. A nose and throat swab for swine flu was done. Swine flu is a “respiratory illness caused by a new strain of influenza virus which has been named pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza by the WHO” (Health Protection Agency (HPA)‚ 2009‚ p.01). The swab was required by the Trust’s “Practical advice for investigating individuals with possible swine flu infection” (Hospital Policy‚ 2009‚ p. 01). Initially
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Hayden (2009) suggest that with the study of swine flu‚ we can study these so called novel diseases‚ and prime the population for the disease with prepandemic immunization. Thus it is ideal to study swine flu as it is similar in structure to other influenza strains. This paper investigates the characteristics‚ prevention‚ and treatment of swine flu. While most organisms can be readily organized in the taxonomic system with roots in Carolus Linnaeus’ work‚ viruses like swine flu‚ sadly can not. Not
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Hazards Biological hazards are hazards that are simply passed from one person to another. Viruses that are air born or passed on by touching infected items and the putting our hands in our mouth. An example of theses hazards are the flu (Influenza)‚ staff infections (Staphylococcus aureus)‚ the common cold & strep throat (Streptococcal pharyngitis) Physical Hazards Physical hazards are hazards that we have absolutely no control over. They are usually devitalizing natural disasters
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modify the IPMOE. A pilot test can be carried in acute hospital such as PMH for one year. Project view and system review can be carried afterwards for half a year (Cheung‚ (n.d)). Until now the contract of TUNS is mostly 2 months during seasonal influenza period. Department operation manager (DOM) can discuss with ward manager about extending the contract period of TUNS to half a year or one year so that the TUNS can be more familiar with the medication in ward and be more confident to the usual correct
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