What Is Protozoa? Protozoa are one of the three main classes of parasites that cause diseases in humans. They are single-celled organism‚ and can only be seen under a microscope. When they invade a human they are able to multiply easily‚ which causes them to be at a great advantage and puts humans at a disadvantage. This helps them survive in the human body and causes a serious infection even with the arrival of a single protozoon. Infections caused by protozoa are contagious. Those protozoa
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Belonging to the B-complex vitamin family‚ an optimal amount of vitamin B5 should be included in a healthy diet to ensure good health and proper functioning of all the organ systems. This vitamin serves a wide range of functions in the body‚ from the production neurotransmitters in the brain‚ the fabrication of steroids‚ enhancing the immune system to the extraction of fats‚ proteins and other important nutrients from food. Vitamin B5 is also found in blood plasma and is sometimes called panthenoic
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MALARIA Symptoms: These symptoms can include but are not limited to: -Headaches -Vomiting -Diarrhoea -Shivering -Joint pains -Jaundice -Muscle pains -Sweats and even the general feeling of just being unwell. Life cycle: ----First‚ malaria is transported by the female Anopheles mosquito by feeding on the its victim( ideally humans now) and while it does this it transmits the sporozoites form of the parasites into the body. -When the mosquito bites‚ some sporozoites are transmitted with
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Chapter 9: Patterns of Inheritance What pattern will inheritance follow? Why is it important? Always follow patterns? Rule of Probability In tossing a coin the odds of either a head or tail is always 50%. The outcome is unaffected by the previous attempt. If 2 coins are tossed‚ each will be dependent of the other HH‚ HT‚ TH‚ TT (Probability is 25% or ¼) The rules also hold true for genetics due to the law of independent assortment. Each alternative type of outcome in a gene acts independently
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Global Warming A common topic known worldwide as controversial and challenging is global warming. Many people do not know the cause and effect between man-made activities‚ practices‚ and behaviors that have contributed significantly to global warming. All nations should be required by law to curtail‚ modify‚ or stop such activity. A great difference in climate change will occur if people around the world became aware of their actions to achieve a more stable and safer environment. Scientists
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more than the number killed in the natural or man-made catastrophes that make headlines. AIDS/HIV has spread rapidly: 33.4 million people are living with HIV. Tuberculosis kills 1.7 million people each year‚ with 9.4 million new cases a year. Malaria causes some 225 million acute illnesses and over 780‚000 deaths‚ annually. 164‚000 people‚ mostly children under 5‚ died from measles in 2008 even though effective immunization costs less than 1 US dollars and has been available for more than 40
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recovering from malaria. (b) When she has recovered from malaria and is taking care of someone suffering from chicken-pox. (c) When she is on a four-day fast after recovering from malaria and is taking care of someone suffering from chicken-pox. Why? Answer A person is most likely to fall sick when she is on a four-day fast after recovering from malaria and is taking care of someone suffering from chiken-pox. This is because immediately after suffering from malaria‚ the body is
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these social goals less attainable. This essay will take to following formate. Firstly it will discuss the correlation between health policies and other policies. Then the essay will explain the relationship between critical health issues; HIV/AIDS‚ Malaria‚ other tropical diseases and malnutrition and there affect on other governmental policies. Finally in the secondly half of the essay the possible solutions available to governments of LDCs will be examined. Firstly it is necessary to understand the
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The Household Income and Expenditure Survey of 1993 carried out by the Government Statistical Bureau estimated that the Amerindian population of Guyana counted 50‚222 upon an overall population of 707‚458 people. With other words‚ the Amerindian population is good for approximately 7 % of the Guyanese population. The majority of the Amerindian communities are located in the hinterland regions‚ where the Amerindians form up to 90 % of the population‚ in hilly and mountainous areas that aren’t easily
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England where Malaria was a common occurrence. When these particular colonists arrived to North America they brought their resistance to Malaria with them. Although this was a good thing for those colonists‚ it turned out fatal to the rest of the continent. Once bitten‚ the Malaria could be transferred to the mosquito from the human‚ “it would only take one such carrier to arrive at Jamestown and get bitten by one of the mosquito species that inhabit the East Coast to establish malaria in the entire
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