Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Definition Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) are infectious disease that interferes with the blood’s natural ability to clot. These diseases can also damage the walls of tiny blood vessels‚ making them leaky. The internal bleeding that results can range from relatively minor to life-threatening. Causes of VHFs VHFs are caused by several distinct families of viruses‚ which include arenaviruses‚ filoviruses‚ bunyaviruses‚ and flaviviruses. These viruses can affect multiple
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INFORMATIVE SPEECH OUTLINE Healing the Whole World Speech #1: Informative Josephine Harscouet‚ Sheyla Rodriguez‚ Mallory Bridgman Dengue Fever in Colombia and India SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To inform my audience about Dengue Fever INTRODUCTION I. With more than one-third of the world’s population living in areas at risk for infection‚ dengue virus is a leading cause of illness and death in the tropics and subtropics. II. We would like to inform you of this disease because it affects so many populations
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“The Earth has a fever‚ and the fever is rising… We are what is wrong‚ and we must make it right” (Al Gore‚ 2007). In the context of global warming‚ discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement. For the last 2.5 million years‚ global temperature has shifted between cold glacial periods that last for around 100 000 years‚ and warmer interglacial periods that last for around 10 000 years. Right now we are in an interglacial period. 20 000 years ago the Earth was cold. Around 15000 years
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Virulent Dengue Viruses This is an in depth comparison between the 4 strains of Dengue Fever. The research documented here was designed to try to determine which strains are the most common‚ virulent and contagious‚ and their affects on humans. Dengue fever is the most common mosquito transmitted disease in humans and also potentially life threatening. With their being no current laboratory or animal models of this disease available for study‚ the pathology and growth of this disease has
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Sinclair‚ Upton. The Jungle. New York: The Penguin Book‚ 1906 Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is the story of an immigrant who came to America for a new beginning involving a “great” job. The immigrant‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ comes from a poor family in Lithuania and wants to now support his future wife‚ Ona Lukoszaite by working for a meatpacking factory in Chicago. Jurgis soon realizes that America and its’ people and opportunities are not all that he thought they would be. Sinclair exposes the horrors and
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Luckily‚ the prognosis of scarlet fever is good‚ (Davis‚ 2016) says that if a patient is treated with antibiotics‚ such as penicillin or amoxicillin‚ scarlet fever only has a mortality rate of 1%. The main risk of scarlet fever lies in the patients that do not get quickly diagnosed and thus do not receive treatment‚ because the mortality rate for those patients drastically increases to 15-20%. Overall‚ if identified and treated quickly‚ scarlet fever is not a very dangerous disease‚ even though it
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Jungle Juice “You heard Morgan might get suspended? She’s been in the principal’s office all day” says Marcus. “Marcus could you slide me one of the chocolate milks?” says Sam as he sits down with a tray of cheese pizza‚ fries‚ and an apple. “Yeah I gotta tell you this crazy story of what happened at her party last night.” Marcus sits down on the opposite end of the lunch table and gives Sam chocolate milk. “Those fries are so stale I don’t know why you eat them.” “I just use them to pick my teeth”
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Wharton‚ who experienced many complicated relationships‚ wrote many short stories with the subtle use of situational irony (“Roman Fever” 299). In the twentieth century short story “Roman Fever‚” Edith Wharton employs symbolism and irony to ascertain that the most open of friends often realize that they do not know everything about each other. The author of “Roman Fever‚” Edith Wharton‚ depicts two upper class friends who spent some time in Rome as little girls. The two women‚ while sitting on a restaurant
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What do you now know and understand about the historical events from your novel? A complex question because as well as the facts and the hard truths of the Yellow Fever epidemic‚ I also have learned to understand how to feel empathy and happiness for the people that had to go through the awful calamity of 1793. I have a deep respect for the people that were volunteers of the Free African Society because they were the real hero’s of the story. They were the people that did not flee when crisis arose
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Critical Care (GM6314) Neurogenic fever management following traumatic brain injury patients Word count: The measurement of body temperature and treatment of fever have long been considered to be within the domain of nursing practice. Intensive care unit (ITU) nurses are well positioned to lead the way to best practices for fever management ’ ’ grounded in current evidence for their vulnerable patients with TBI. Introduction On the other hand‚ fever in the early stage of TBI might be of
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