A country located in the Caribbean Sea with an uneven coastline‚ warm and humid tropical climate‚ population of mainly African origin‚ and one of the poorest locations can describe the Republic of Haiti. The Republic of Haiti and its location‚ economy‚ stability and political structure have all had effects on the spread of disease and the risk factors associated with it. The highest occurrence of HIV in Latin American and Caribbean countries has been seen in Haiti. This all started with the epidemic
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Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne arbovirus and a member of the genus Alphavirus and the family Togaviridae. The word ‘Chikungunya’ is derived from the Makonde language that translates the word in “that which bends up”. It is referred to the stooped posture associated with chronic and incapacitating arthralgia suffered by those infected patients (cited by Kondekar et al.‚ 2006 in Her & Kam & Lin & Ng‚ 2009). Chikungunya was discovered during analysis of isolated blood samples of a febrile patient in
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Introduction: Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease transmitted to humans and other vertebrate hosts by the bite of infected mosquitoes. The name “Yellow” is explained by jaundice that affect some patients with symptoms’ like yellow skin and yellow eyes(http://www.who.int/csr/disease/yellowfev/en/) The YF virus is the causative agent for Yellow fever and it belongs to the virus family Flaviviridae. Single stranded RNA (11kb) present in Flavi viruses .YF virus responsible for number
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SIR Model of Ebola On March 2014‚ the epidemic of Ebola virus disease was detected in West Africa. The outbreak began in Guinea on December 2013‚ but was not detected until just this March‚ when it had already spread to several other countries like Liberia‚ Nigeria and Senegal. The Ebola virus can cause a fatality rate up till 90%‚ however the fatality rate in the current outbreak is closer to 50%. On August 2014‚ the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the current outbreak of Ebola as a Public
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Chapter 1 – The Problem Introduction Dengue fever‚ also known as breakbone fever‚ is a mosquito-borne tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Dengue becomes a major international public health concern. Dengue is found in tropical and sub-tropical regions around the world‚ predominantly in urban and semi-urban area. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates there may be 50-100 million dengue infections globally every year‚ with two-fifths of the world population‚ or 2.5 billion people‚
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Placement: Co-nursing student and Clinical Instructor Ateneo de Zamboanga University Date: February 2 2013 General Objective: To gain more knowledge College of Nursing Clinical Area: City health office about Chikungunya. CHIKUNGUNYA
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Zika Virus Most people think that the Zika virus is a new virus that has just struck people out of nowhere‚ when in fact it has been around for nearly 70 years. The Zika virus was first discovered by a group of scientist in 1947‚ in east africa. Stated in ‘’Zika virus for Essential Hospitals’’‚ Zika virus‚ named for its East Africa point of origin‚ a Ugandan forest‚ was first identified in 1947 and did not appear in humans until 1952 (‘’Zika Virus’’8). This helps you to grasp a better understanding
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A. Trachoma This is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium “Chlamydia trachomatis”. The infection causes the inner surface of the eyelids to become rough leading to pain in the eye‚ breakdown of the cornea and possible blindness. Untreated‚ repeated trachoma infections result in entropion - a painful form of permanent blindness when the eyelids turn inward‚ causing the eyelashes to scratch the cornea. Children are the most susceptible to infection due to their tendency to easily get dirty
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Using the numbers language is the best way to estimate how threatening and common this virus can be. Epidemiological studies have reported a total of 44 countries which had Zika outbreaks from 2007 to 5 February 2016. This includes 33 countries that reported transmission in between 2015 and 2016. The most affected countries are Brazil with up to 1‚482‚701 cases reported since the outbreak began and Colombia with 20‚297 cases reported (up to 23 January 2016). Since the country’s first cases were
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Termites and other wood-boring bugs like carpenter ants do their dirty work behind the walls of our homes. Although we might see the swarmers‚ or reproductive termites‚ flying around during mating season‚ we rarely see the workers chomping away 24 hours a day‚ 7 days a week. Normally‚ we only know we have a termite problem when we see hollows or small‚ black holes in sheetrock or buckling wood in window or door frames. Aside from some preventative measures we can take to make our houses less appealing
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