other child. This includes disability‚ race‚ religion or gender. This me Health protection agency act (2004) This act is for the importance of health. This means that as a childminder have to make sure that you protect the children from infectious diseases and any other dangers to health. Care of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (2002) This act is for childminders who employ any staff. This means that you have to make sure that there are no dangers for the employers. And that the
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or PhD in epidemiology. With this degree they study the patterns of diseases or health risk within a population group‚ society‚ and or a culture. Their goal is to reduce public risk so they look at how a certain disease affects a certain population or how a virus is only in a certain geographical location. They may only track one kind of disease or virus or they may track many. Epidemiologist do not only track medical diseases or viruses they also research what health risk can occur from a person
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liberties of some. As such‚ where the use of isolation in the event of a novel human influenza outbreak may be helpful in preventing the spread of disease‚ I disagree with the use of quarantine seeing as it as a violation of the civil rights of those quarantined. Depending on the mode of transmission‚ isolation may be helpful in the spread of contagious disease‚ but quarantine may be isolating people who will never get ill and is very expensive. Decisions about quarantine and isolation are predicated
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Calderon‚ PhD 20 January 2016 Syphilis Syphilis is a systemic infectious disease that is the result of sexual or congenital transmission of a bacterium known as Treponema pallidum (Sutton‚ 2013). This bacteria‚ in spite of creating a strong immune response‚ is able to thrive and spread in the human host for many decades. Syphilis has been called “the great pretender‚” as its symptoms can look much like those of other infectious diseases and in the past‚ has been misdiagnosed (CDC SITATION). In this
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vaccines and that eradication of the dangerous disease is possible. The Smallpox virus was an infectious disease that was spread through the air in close proximity. Due to its contagious nature‚ many people were infected and many died due to this disease. Initially‚ treatment for this disease included inoculation. As stated in lecture‚ this was a process where active smallpox virus was inserted into a cut on the arm. This evidently only spread the disease. Edward Henner later created the vaccine derived
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After the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) required all local public health departments to create a mass vaccination plan in the event of an infectious disease outbreak such as smallpox (Aaby‚ et al. 2006). Even though the Montgomery County Public Health Services (PHS) of Maryland had experience with handling infectious diseases such as flu outbreaks and had previously executed mass-dispensing of vaccine during the October 2001 Anthrax attacks
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Leprosy Mike Wallis Leprosy or Hansen’s disease‚ is a chronic‚ infectious disease that mainly affects the skin‚ mucous membranes‚ and nerves. A rod shaped bacillus named Mycobacterium leprea‚ causes the virus. Mycobacterium leprea is very similar to the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. The reason Leprosy is also known as Hansen’s disease‚ is because it was first identified in 1874 by a Norwegian physician named Gerhard Henrik Armeur Hansen. Leprosy appears in both the Old and New Testaments
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Stacy ENG 111 Essay #4 Today‚ nearly 40% of American parents refuse to vaccinate their children due to a variety of unfounded fears. Vaccinations against diseases should be mandatory‚ without exception‚ for all children of the U.S. who wish to attend school. These vaccinations are critical to the control and eradication of deadly infectious diseases. In 1962‚ the year before measles vaccine was introduced‚ almost 500‚000 cases of measles were reported in the U.S. Ten years after we started vaccinating
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the whole body. (http://www.ukessays.co.uk/essays/biology/bubonic-plague.php) The bubonic plague is a disease most commonly carried by the fleas that live on rodents. A single bite from an infected flea is enough to transfer the deadly bacteria to a new host‚ invading its body systems. History of the plague The plague
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Bacteria exist everywhere‚ inside and on our bodies. Most of them are completely harmless and some of them are very useful. But some bacteria can cause diseases‚ either because they end up in the wrong place in the body or simply because they are ’designed’ to invade us. Bacteria can infect humans‚ plants or animals. B: Viruses: A virus is a small infectious agent‚ too small to be seen by the naked eye. They can’t multiply on their own‚ only inside the cells of other organisms. Viruses consist of genetic
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