Species found in the genus Cryptosporidium are protozoan parasites that cause diarrheal disease with a global distribution. They mainly affect children‚ causing a self-limited diarrhea in healthy individuals; nevertheless‚ in people with acquired immunodeficiency disorder or AIDS‚ the disease can be quite severe and result in weight loss or malnutrition. Intestinal cryptosporidiosis continues to be an important public health concern worldwide‚ most notably through outbreaks caused by contaminated food
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The Spread of AIDS Every day we read in newspapers that more people are getting a disease. But no a simple disease. Nowadays AIDS is one of the most lethal illness that every year kills thousands of people. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome‚ commonly referred to as AIDS‚ is a fatal disease as it attacks and destroy the immune system of the body. As per the reports of Indian Health Organization (IHO)‚ women and children are found to be more prone to the disease. The highest numbers of AIDS cases
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United States are living with HIV infection. One in five 20% of these people are unaware that they have the infection. The CDC estimates that 56‚000 people in the United States develop the HIV infection in 2006. Therefore‚ HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. This virus can lead to Acquired Immune Deficiency syndrome also called Aids. HIV damages a person’s body by destroying the blood cells that are called CD4 and T cells‚ which are crucial to helping the body to fight off diseases. Scientist
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases are infections that are passed during sexual intercourse with a person of the same sex and or of the opposite sex (Crooks et al.‚ 2011). For most with this infection they do not know that they may have them and unknowingly pass them on to their partners other factors could be risky sexual behavior such as having several sexual partners. The lack of proper resources or limited family planning clinics adds to the reason these disease continue to get passed from person
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Chapter 20: The Immune System The immune system has two intrinsic systems: 1. Innate (nonspecific) defense system 2. Adaptive (specific) defense system The immune system is a functional system rather than structural; there are no specific immune system organs Pathogen: a disease-causing agent; anything foreign in our body that causes disease Three lines of defense: 1st: external barriers 2nd: several non-specific defense mechanisms 3rd: immunity‚ specific resistance to disease
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aureus)SalmonellaClostridium difficile (pain and diarrhoea)Legionnaires disease (belong to the family Legionellaceae) | Viruses: Measles (rubeola virus)Common cold (caused by rhinoviruses or coronaviruses)Warts (human papilloma virus)HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)Chicken pox (caused by a virus called the varicella-zoster virus)Hepatitis B ( belongs in the genus Orthohepadnavirus and is part of Group VII-type
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order to try and reduce the risk of contracting the virus‚ you must first understand what AIDS is. According to Mayoclinic.com‚ AIDS is defined as the following: “AIDS is a chronic‚ potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By
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PREVALENCE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS FOR HIV AND TUBERCULOSIS CO INFECTION‚ DESSIE REFERRAL HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER‚ Getachew G/mariam‚ MSc‚ college of Dessie health sciences‚ Dessie‚ Fikre Enqusilasie ‚ PhD‚ school of public heath‚ Addis Ababa University‚ Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia. Abstract Background: tuberculosis is the most serious opportunistic infection for people infected with HIV in developing countries. A majority of co infected cases are in sub Saharan Africa‚ where up
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reliable and timely data. While some countries have made impressive gains in achieving health-related targets‚ others are falling behind. Often the countries making the least progress are those affected by high levels of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AID) economic hardship or conflict. In this presentation we will discuss in detail one of the eight MDGs which is‚ Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
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herpes-free life. Symptoms Herpes is one of the numerous sexual diseases that are caused by viruses. Aside from herpes‚ an individual who goes to have sex unprotected is also susceptible to acquiring genital warts‚ hepatitis‚ or worst‚ human immunodeficiency virus (HTD)‚ which could worsen
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