affecting many. Surrounding this on-going controversy are many parents weighing the risks and benefits of vaccinating their children. Imposingly‚ many parents still fear the effects of preventable and deadly childhood diseases. For example‚ a study recently performed by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that America’s current population has seen the most measles cases since 1996‚ and the majority of these
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discovered and made by a french biologist‚ Louis Pasteur in Marnes-la-Coquette‚ France. -This vaccine came about after biologists created the smallpox vaccine through artificially generating a weaker version of the disease. This inspired Louis to do the same with the rabies disease and began to infect rabbits. -The Rabies vaccine was developed to prevent people from dying after being attacked by a rabies infected animal. All cases of rabies before the vaccine resulted
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with health problems. (ii) All basic necessary conditions to prevent diseases must be present. For example‚ proper garbage collection and disposal‚ clearing of drains‚ supply of healthy drinking water‚ etc. Question 2: State any two conditions essential for being free of disease. Answer: The twoconditions essential for being free of diseases are: (i) Personal hygiene and cleanliness are necessary to stay away from diseases. (ii) Individuals should take a balanced diet that contains carbohydrates
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responsibilities you need to follow. You all need to be aware of and report change in the health conditions of the individual that they support. You also have responsibilities to assist with keeping work areas and equipment clean‚ tidy and free from infectious hazards. You also need to maintain good personal hygiene for yourselves as well as the service users. Helping service users bathe‚ use the toilet and change and dispose of any soiled clothing. You are also accountable to preparing and maintaining
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bone marrow cells from a baboon into his body to bolster his immune system (baboons are immune to the AIDS virus). The loss of the donor baboon was tolerable because scientists and doctors should use all methods at hand when combating deadly human diseases. Like the many other treatments and medicines that have contributed to improved human health‚ the cure for AIDS will undoubtedly come through animal experimentation. (Editor’s
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The Elusive Prions and CJD: possible to treat? Introduction to Prion Disease Prion disease is an infectious neurodegenerative disease caused by a naturally occurring protein (PrPC) misfolding into an aberrant form (PrPSC) which aggregates and destroys neuronal tissue. PrPSC was originally posited by Stanley Prusiner to be the sole causative moiety in prion disease (Prion Theory)‚ however there is some evidence to suggest that unknown toxic intermediates‚ co-factors‚ and certain nucleic acids
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is not a genetic disease. It is an infectious disease caused by pathogens like: viruses‚ bacteria‚ and fungi.This disease can be inherited or passed down from someone in their environment. For someone to inherit whooping cough they have to get it from their parents or it has to run in their family. The inheritance of a disease depends on how important genetics are to the disease. Strong genetic diseases are inherited‚ partial genetic diseases are sometimes inherited‚ and disease that do not have
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Leptospirosis February 13‚ 2012 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Leptospirosis is an infectious disease caused by a type of bacteria called a spirochete. Leptospirosis can be transmitted by many animals such as rats‚ skunks‚ opossums‚ raccoons‚ foxes‚ and other vermin. It is transmitted though contact with infected soil or water. The soil or water is contaminated with the waste products of an infected animal. People contract the disease by either ingesting contaminated food or water or by broken skin and mucous
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vaccinations‚ vaccines have been around for nearly 200 years and are known to have saved millions of lives by preventing a person from infectious diseases through inoculation. The world’s first vaccine‚ the vaccination for smallpox was developed in 1796 by Edward Jenner‚ a doctor from England. Smallpox‚ which dates back to 1350 B.C.‚ is an infectious and contagious disease that plagued much of Europe and North American colonies during the 17th and 18th century. Smallpox claimed more than million deaths
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against harmful disease. It uses the body’s natural defence to build resistance to specific infections (Australia Government Department of Health‚ 2013). It was Edward Jenner who developed the first vaccine in 1976 against small pox. Centuries later the next vaccine was developed by Louis Pasteur. This was the anti-rabies vaccine (Lombard‚ Pastoret‚ & Moulin‚ 2007). It was these two men who gave hope to other scientist for the development and prevention of other infectious diseases for years to come
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