Infectious Disease Natalie Rabess-Denis HCA 240 August 18‚ 2013 Professor Morse Infectious Disease We are faced and come in contact with various types of diseases‚ those that you can seek treatment for and those that are incurable. Research has been conducted for many years and is still being tested and studied in an attempt to find a cure for these diseases. Cancer‚ Hepatitis B‚ Tuberculosis‚ Influenza‚ and Chicken Pox are all forms of infectious disease‚ but one major one that
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Alzheimer ’s disease Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that causes problems with memory thinking and behavior. Symptoms usually develop slowly and get worse over time‚ becoming severe enough to interfere with daily life activities. Up to today there is no cure for Alzheimer how ever there is treatment for symptoms‚ but the research continues in search to one day find the cure to this deadly disease. Unfortunately it runs in my family my dad’s dad past away of Alzheimer at the
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own life was he had been recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. However‚ it was learned that it
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A signs and symptoms of a Parkinson’s disease differ from each individual. At the beginning‚ a sign will be mild and unobserved. Normally‚ a sign starts from one side individual’s body and it stays bad even though when it affect both sides. A tremor is one of the main symptoms‚ it starts to shakes in a hand or arm beside a slow motion and stiffness. An individual may be aware of their backwards and forward of the thumb and forefinger which is known as a pill- rolling tremor. The slowness of the movement
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Kawasaki disease‚ also known as Kawasaki syndrome is an inflammatory disease that is potentially fatal affecting the circulatory system‚ heart‚ skin‚ mucous membranes and the immune system generally in infants and children younger than five years of age. Aneurysms‚ due to the inflamed coronary arteries lead to stenosis or coronary artery thrombosis‚aneurysm rupture‚ myocardial infarction and sudden death. The cause of this condition is unknown‚ but there has been an hypothesis linking this condition
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The diseases that are characterized by an abnormal accumulation of α-synuclein (-Syn) aggregates within neurons‚ nerve fibers‚ or glial cells are collectively referred to as α-synucleinopathies [1]. The three main types of α-synucleinopathies are Parkinson’s disease (PD)‚ dementia with Lewy bodies‚ and multiple system atrophy. These disorders impact mainly the elderly population‚ therefore causing serious personal and economic burden in our aging societies. Among them the most common disease is PD
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Alzheimer’s Disease Central Carolina Community College Alzheimer’s disease is a form of dementia that affects the brain cells causing memory loss and behavior changes. According to the Alzheimer’s Association‚ about 200‚000 people that are younger that 65 have early symptoms of Alzheimer’s. Symptoms of Alzheimer’s include the decreasing ability to carry on conversations‚ lack of response to one’s environment‚ and declining cognitive abilities. Generally‚ Alzheimer’s begins with the person
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Heart disease Introduction What is heart disease? Heart disease or Cardiovascular disease is an abnormal function of the heart or blood vessels. It can cause an increase in risk for heart attack‚ heart failure‚ sudden death‚ stroke and cardiac rhythm problems‚ thus resulting in decreased quality of life and decreased life expectancy. The causes of cardiovascular disease range from structural defects‚ to infection‚ inflammation‚ environment and genetics. In order to help prevent cardiovascular
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Lyme disease Lyme Disease Lyme borreliosis‚ commonly known as Lyme diseases is an infectious bacterial disease transmitted through the bite of the blacklegged tick. It is named after the neighboring towns of Lyme and old Lyme‚ Connecticut. The first reported cases of Lyme disease came from these towns in 1975. Although‚ it was not discovered that the disease was a tick-born disease until 1978 by Allen Steere. Today it is the most common disease caused by ticks throughout the
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Lyme Disease Lyme disease is a disease that is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi‚ and is spread through the bite of infected ticks. In the United States‚ there are two coastal ticks that spread the disease in the east and west. The blacklegged tick‚ or deer tick‚ spreads it in the northeastern‚ north-atlantic. The western blacklegged tick spreads the disease on the west coast. Ticks can attach to any part of the human body but are often found in hard-to-see areas such as the groin‚ armpits
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