Communicable Disease Paper Tuberculosis Communicable diseases rely on fluid exchange‚ contaminated substance‚ or close contact to travel from an infected carrier to a healthy individual. Many people have never heard of a disease called tuberculosis (TB) or not fully aware how serious this disease really is. I will briefly summarize the research that was conducted on tuberculosis by describing the disease in details and discussing efforts to control it‚ indentify environmental factors related
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Monday February 24 of 2014 The Huntington’s disease The issues involving Huntingtons disease has been a popular topic amongst scholars for many years. It has recently come to my attention that not enough people understand how Huntingtons disease has been up to our lives. Huntington’s Disease (HD) is a dominant genetic disorder‚ is inherited. affects muscles coordination and leads to cognitive decline and psychiatric problems. Symptoms of Huntingtons disease include uncontrolled movements‚ swings‚
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Legionnaires’ Disease is pneumonia that’s caused by bacteria (Center For Disease Control and Prevention‚ 2015). The name of the bacteria that causes Legionnaire’s is Legionella pneumophila. Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs; this specific type of pneumonia is serious and can threaten one’s life. The body system that is affected is the respiratory system. Another body system that can be affected is the digestive system. This disease can lead to complications such as respiratory failure‚ septic
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such as viruses and bacteria. Also‚ the disease affects the human life by influencing the people who are related to the patient. One of these dangerous illnesses is tuberculosis‚ which has one cause that leads the patient to a fatal condition. According to the American Lung Association‚ "not everyone who is infected with the TB germ develops TB disease." [1] Therefore‚ tuberculosis has many risk factors that help the process of developing the disease. TB disease has one cause‚ a strong effect on the
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Communicable Disease * Keep in mind all have fever‚ swollen LN‚ rash etc. Scarlet Fever: * Cause: Group A beta Hemolytic Streptococcus * Spread via direct contact/droplet * May lead to RF * Uvula/pharynx beefy red; tonsils have white exudate‚ pinpoint lesions on palate * Sandpaper rash * Pastina Sign: hyperpigmentation at joints * TONGUE (white furry white strawberry strawberry ) * So throat culture if they have strept/sore throat *** Anybody with a sore throat
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Project Periodontitis and Heart Disease Andrea Wilson University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Abstract According to the American Heart Association‚ cardiovascular disease and heart disease are used interchangeably. Cardiovascular disease is a disease that is associated with the heart and blood vessels. There are many different types of heart diseases and they all include a variety of problems. Periodontal disease is a complex chronic inflammatory disease that results in the loss of connective
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease/ Crohn’s Disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic disorders that cause inflammation or ulceration in the small and large intestines. Most often IBD is classified as ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease but may be referred to as colitis‚ enteritis‚ ileitis‚ and proctitis. Ulcerative colitis causes ulceration and inflammation of the inner lining of a couple of really bad places‚ while Crohn’s disease is an inflammation that extends into the deeper
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Obesity Is A Disease Obesity is a disease that affects one in three members of the American population. The trend of obese Americans has continually increased since 1960‚ and is not showing signs of slowing down. More than half of the adults in America are considered overweight or obese‚ and about thirty-four percent of the total population in the U.S is either overweight or obese. One is considered “overweight” if the body mass index‚ or BMI‚ is twenty-five to twenty-nine kilograms. “Obese”
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and Health Care of Japanese-American Elders‚ Tanabe). Individuals at high risk for this disease would include those who are overweight and/or obesity‚ smokers‚ and those who are physically inactive (Gelber‚ Petrovitch‚ Masaki‚ Abbott‚ Webster Ross‚ Launer‚ White‚ 2011). Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and healthy behaviors at a young age has shown to be of great importance in prevention of this degenerative disease. The Japanese religion of Shintoism emphasizes purity and cleanliness (Gelber et al
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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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