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    Assisted Suicide

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    psychological issues and in worst cases to suicide. As poverty takes its toll on the human health‚ it also affects environment in general: Poor areas are well known by the wide spread of infectious communicable diseases‚ such as typhoid fever and tuberculosis. Underprivileged people are also exposed to non-communicable diseases including Premature Births and Cancer. It also imposes obesity in poor regions since the poor have limited or no access to physical activities which improves their health. Families

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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 Intro

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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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    Edward Jenner and Smallpox

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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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    Epidemics

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    Infectious diseases have been around for centuries and they have destroyed‚ killed whole populations and wreaked havoc across the entire world. They’ve caused epidemics and/or pandemics. Epidemics are when an infectious disease affects a large population within a geographic region. Pandemics are epidemics on much larger scale‚ globally. Influenza‚ AIDS/HIV‚ yellow fever‚ and cholera are just a few examples of the worst epidemics known to the world. Cholera has been around since ancient times

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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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    Review of the Hot Zone

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    Sandra Alexander The Hot Zone: A Scary Truth Richard Preston weaves a true tale about a chilling story of an Ebola virus (A disease-causing agent smaller than a bacterium‚ consisting of a shell made of proteins and membranes and a core containing DNA or RNA. A virus depends on living cells in order to replicate.) outbreak that occurs in a suburban Washington‚ D.C. laboratory in 1989. In this laboratory‚ monkeys being used in scientific experiments quickly sicken and die due to a filovirus

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    West Nile virus is a disease transmitted by certain mosquitoes that carry a disease that can cause serious brain inflammation. West Nile Virus originated in Uganda‚ in 1937. The virus has now spread rapidly across Africa‚ Asia‚ the Middle East‚ and Europe. The virus is most commonly advanced through mosquitoes‚ particularly the Culex pipiens mosquito. Humans are most commonly affected‚ especially those over the age of 50‚ by this disease although some animals such as bats‚ horses‚ cats‚ dogs‚ skunks

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    University Concepts in Community and Public Health NRS-427V Colleen Darrow June 7‚ 2014 Chickenpox Communicable Diseases are transmitted from one person to the next. The transmission occurs via airborne viruses or bacteria‚ but may also be transmitted through bodily fluids or blood. Communicable diseases may also be referred to as contagious or infectious diseases. One communicable disease is Chickenpox‚ also known as Varicella-Zoster Virus. Chickenpox is extremely contagious. In fact‚ it had a 90

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    Universal Precautions

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    from coming in contact with diseases that are spread by blood and certain body fluids. The Laboratory Centre for Disease Control‚ U.S. Centers for Disease Control‚ Health Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada have come up with a policy of “Universal Precautions.” These are guidelines to prevent transmission of blood-borne pathogens in the health care setting. These precautions emphasize that all patients should be assumed to be infectious for blood-borne diseases‚ such as AIDS and Hepatitis

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