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    Huntington’s Disease

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    about Huntington’s disease. After reading this paper and the subsequent ones to come‚ you surely will. According to PudMedHealth.com‚ “Huntington’s disease is a disorder passed down through families in which nerve cells in certain parts of the brain waste away or degenerate.” This can lead to many different complications to a person’s health. In most cases‚ the disease’s symptoms develop later in life during a person’s mid thirties-forties. There are also instances where the disease becomes on-set in

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    Minamata Disease

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    Minamata Disease Masazumi Harada‚ M.D.‚ Ph.D. http://www.einap.org/envdis/Minamata.html Minamata Disease was discovered for the first time in the world at Minamata City‚ Kumamoto Prefecture‚ Japan‚ in 1956 (Minamata Disease Research Group; 1968‚ Harada M; 1995)‚ and for the next time at Niigata City‚ Niigata Prefecture‚ Japan‚ in 1965 (Tsubaki T & Irukayama K; 1977). The both cases were attributed to the methyl mercury that was generated in the process for producing acetaldehyde using

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    Alzheimers Disease

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    ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE -aka Dementia: a syndrome with progressive deterioration in intellectual functioning secondary to structural or functional changes. - Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia -Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible form of senile dementia caused by nerve cell deterioration. -Individuals with Alzheimer’s disease experience cognitive deterioration & progressive loss of ability to carry out ADL’s. -The pt experiences a steady decline in physical & mental

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    1964-65 infected 12½ million Americans‚ killed 2‚000 babies‚ and caused 11‚000 miscarriages. In 2012‚ 9 cases of rubella were reported to CDC.” These are statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. Vaccines have protected and saved millions of people from deadly infectious diseases over the past century yet there is an anti-vaccine movement going on that threatens the population. Spoken Link/Transition: In the same way you would

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    they were broken" (Rowse 156). As long as people lived in small groups‚ isolated from each other‚ there were not many incidents of widespread disease. But as civilization progressed‚ people began clustering into cities. As the cities grew and became crowded‚ they also became the nesting places of water-borne‚ insect-borne‚ and skin-to-skin infectious diseases. The Elizabethans shared communal water‚ handled unwashed food‚ stepped in excrement from casual discharge of manure‚ and used urine for dyes

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    Lyme Disease

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    Etiology Lyme disease is an illness that is caused by a spirochete bacterium‚ Borrelia burgdorferi‚ which is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected ticks. Ixodes dammini‚ which is the deer tick‚ is located in the northwest and Midwest region of the united states‚ are commonly known to infect humans. They are found in grassy areas (including lawns)‚ and in brushy‚ shrubby and woodland sites‚ even on warm winter days. They prefer areas where some moisture is present. The tick has

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    Celiac Disease

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    containing products that people without coleiac disease‚ take for granted. Although deemed as normal for most‚ these simple foods are not as nutritious or beneficial to people who have Coeliac disease. Coeliac disease pronounced (see-liac) is intolerance to wheat products‚ whereby gluten fights against the immune system causing damage to the lining of the intestines. According to (Coeliac UK 2001)‚ 125‚000 in the UK are faced with this condition. The disease is fatal in most cases and can have an

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    Resident physicians are usually the first to see patients in most teaching institutions‚ and should protect themselves against infectious agents. Their knowledge of infectious agents and disease process is critical. Knowledge of EVD is not only important to residents‚ but to the general public as a whole. Although the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic was prevalent in the news‚ only 6.7% of the residents identified all of the early symptoms of EVD. Residents exhibited poor knowledge of good hygiene

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    Flu is an acute infectious disease. It is most often observed in the autumn-winter period. A special kind of viruses that transmits through airborne droplets can induce it. Influenza is a dangerous disease. It can lead to serious consequences in the case of improper treatment. That is why medicine has developed many ways to prevent the flu. And the most effective of them is vaccination. In the modern world‚ flu vaccines become available. Still‚ there are concerns about the quality of these vaccines

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    Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that affects the lungs. It can start out like a normal flu‚ with coughing being the number one symptom. After a while‚ the virus attacks the lungs with more vehemence‚ causing internal bleeding. This internal bleeding is visible when the infected coughs. If left untreated‚ the infected will literally cough themselves to death. Today I will talk about the history of Tuberculosis in the United States. During my speech I will discuss Consumption in the early 19th

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