The smallpox virus was once one of the most feared diseases in the world‚ and for good reason. Variola was a contagious virus that caused fever and painful‚ pus filled blisters all over the body. Victims had about a one fourth chance of survival‚ and survivors were covered with small‚ pitted scars and sometimes blinded or arthritic. Popping sporadically up in various civilizations‚ smallpox left a trail of destruction through two thousand plus years of mankind’s history. The story of smallpox is
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Conceptual Frameworks In chapter 1 some of the sections that mainly stood out to me were the concept of identity‚ dominant and subordinate groups‚ and the concept of privilege. The readings in this chapter took me through several steps as I read. I first thought about identity and how I view myself. Then I thought on how others view me. Identity then led into dominant and subordinate groups. The way I identify myself places me in a dominant or subordinate group
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Joseph Cornell Artist This internationally renowned modern artist never had professional training. He was first and foremost a collector. He loved to scour old book shops and secondhand stores of new York looking for souvenirs‚ theatrical memorabilia‚ old prints and photographs‚ music scores‚ and French literature. Joseph Cornell was born on Christmas Eve 1903. He was the oldest of four children born to Helen and Joseph Cornell. He had two sisters‚ Betty and Helen‚ and a brother‚ Robert. Cornell
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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK Concept - A concept is a generalized idea of a thing or class of things. Concept vs. Idea It is roughly synonymous with the word ’idea’ but it is a little more specific. An idea can just spring to mind out of nowhere but generally a ’concept’ is based on observation of real phenomena. I say ’a little more specific’ because both the word ’idea’ and ’concept’ cover a lot of ground and are used in many ways. An example of a concept in Biology would be evolution Concept vs.
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Periodicals El Renacimiento-founded in Manila by Rafael Palma in 1901 Philippines Free Press-established in Manila in 1905 by R. McCollugh Dick and Dr. Theo Rogers Poetry Sursum Corda (lift up your hearts) Written by Justo Juliano in 1907‚ was the first work to be published in English‚ appeared in Renacimiento My Mother and her Air Castles Written by Jan F. Salazar in 1909 Also published in Renacimiento To my Lady in Laoag By Proceso Sebastian in 1909 Drama -R.I.P (1902) -Walang Sugat (Zarsuela)
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Introduction According to NCBI articles Papilloma virus is not known to be a single virus and proved it is not a single virus; it is only related to closely related viruses. Typing is based on nucleic acid sequencing 100 HPV types are known to east. HPV types associated with malignancies and they are thus referred to as high-risk types and these who are associated with condylomas are rarely found in cancers thus their called low-risk types. Moreover‚ Cervical Cancer is the most common HPV –related
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Ebola Virus Ebola virus (EBOV) is considered to be one of the most belligerent contagious agents and has an ability to cause highly fatal hemorrhagic fever syndrome that results in human and non-human primate’s death (NHPs) during the days of exposure. The first notification of the virus was mentioned in the Ebola River valley in Zaire for the time of an outburst in 1976. Moreover‚ the outbursts have appeared in Africa over the following 27 years‚ with death rates that differ from 50 to 90%. In
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The Variola virus otherwise known as the Small pox is an enveloped protected DNA containing virus that causes severe illness. Small pox has a history dating back to prehistory times. It is believed to have appeared around 10‚000 BC in northeast Africa. Evidence was suggested by medical examination of mummies ; their skin appeared have contain skin lesions resembling those ones that have had small pox. The infection of the variola virus seemed uncontainable during the prehistory times and even during
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A person can spread the hepatitis A virus if their feces come into contact with someone else‚ since the virus lives and can be found in the infecteds stool/feces. This is why the hepatitis A virus is mainly transmitted through contaminated food‚ water‚ sanitation‚ or even lack of personal hygiene. If a person consumes contaminated food or comes into contact with the virus‚ the person will then begin to receive the disease and ultimately become infected
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Norwalk Virus As the summer season is in full gear now a particular virus is looming in the horizon. This virus is an important cause of acute gastroenteritis in humans and is the most frequently implicated cause of outbreaks of viral gastroenteritis worldwide. Noroviruses are a group of single-stranded RNA viruses in the family Caliciviridae that cause acute gastroenteritis in humans.(1) Norwalk virus is the prototypical strain in the genus. Noroviruses cause an estimated
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