CSEC BIOLOGY SUMMER RESEARCH PAPER DISEASE & ITS IMPACT ON HUMANS This research is aimed at informing the reader on different types of diseases and the impact it has on humans. Enclosed herein are details on the types‚ treatments‚ transmissions and descriptions of different diseases in the region and around the world.
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source has unimproved to a percentage of 31 in 2010. Haiti is a country that has a high degree of a risk of disease. Food and or waterborne diseases include: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea‚ hepatitis A and E‚ and typhoid fever. As well as vectorborne diseases‚ which include dengue fever and malaria (2013). Haiti is a free market economy. They have advantages of low labor costs and tariff-free access to the US for many of its exports. Serious economic growth throughout the country include: poverty
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I. Introduction Dengue is one of the major problem of the Philippines‚ According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Dengue is found in tropical and sub-tropical regions around the world‚ predominantly in urban and semi-urban areas. Furthermore‚ The Philippines ranks among the top 10 countries with the most recorded dengue cases. Dengue is an acute infectious disease and severe‚ flu like illness that affects infants‚ young children and adults but seldom to death‚ virus are transmitted to humans
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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 Disease) Salmonellosis Rickettsialpox Bird-borne Diseases Histoplasmosis Ornithosis (Chlamydia psittaci
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INTRODUCTION Dengue Fever is caused by one of the four closely related‚ but antigenically distinct‚ virus serotypes Dengue type 1‚ Dengue type 2‚ Dengue type 3‚ and Dengue type 4 of the genus Flavivirus and Chikungunya virus. Infection with one of these serotype provides immunity to only that serotype of life‚ to a person living in a Dengue-endemic area can have more than one Dengue infection during their lifetime. Dengue fever through the four different Dengue serotypes are maintained in the
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What would you do if‚ for example‚ you had a lot of money? Never mind your chances of having lots of money are just slightly better than the chances of being abducted by aliens. Even so‚ having a lot of money is a favourite daydream for a lot of us. If had a lot of money‚ I would like to buy a bungalow for my family to live as my current house is quite small. I will provide a luxurious life for my parents as they had taken care of me since birth. I will also provide enough money for my siblings
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for much ill health as well as many deaths. Symptoms If you start to develop cold symptoms but starting more rapidly and rather more violently‚ with higher fever and severe aches and pains‚ often in the back and muscles‚ then you may well be developing influenza. This may be associated with severe headache‚ cough‚ and‚ as a result of the fever‚ intermittent sweating and shivering. Sometimes there is a gastrointestinal element‚ with vomiting and/or diarrhoea. Many people think they have had "flu" when
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Chronic & Communicable Diseases Objectives Discuss & give examples of chronic diseases. Define communicable diseases & explain their significance. Discuss disease transmission. Explain how communicable disease is transmitted by: a. intestinal discharges. b. nose & throat discharges. c. zoonoses (animals) Discuss the disease spread by vectors and their control measures. Environmental Impacts Paradigm: Exposure-Response (EIA : EHIA) Exposure - def: any condition
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Danger Signs • Main Symptoms • Nutritional Status • Immunization Status • Other Problems ❖ Cough or difficult breathing ❖ Diarrhea ❖ Fever ❖ Ear problems History-taking General Danger Signs Main Symptoms - Cough or difficult breathing - Diarrhea - Fever - Ear problems Nutritional Status Immunization Status Other Problems Assess for: • Respiratory rate • Lower chest wall in-drawing
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relation to Alexander ’s death. According to Plutarch‚ in a period of roughly 11-12 days before Alexander ’s death‚ his fever started as minor and progressed until he eventually died2. During this period he would bath during the day‚ and in the evening he would also bath and sacrificed and ate freely. During the night he had the fever. He would then send orders from his bedside. The fever eventually became violent and continued to grow. He soon became speechless. His army presumed he was dead after he
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