A Rhetoric Analysis of: “The Obligation to Endure” By Rachel Carson Abstract The following involves the second chapter of Carson’s book‚ Silent Spring that was written in 1962. In this chapter Carson argues persuasively the adverse impacts of pesticides upon the environment and the risks on human health and the environment associated with these “genetic invaders” (Carson‚ 1962). Many of the extremely diverse people from Carson’s audience targeted were under the impression that chemicals like DDT
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Desiree M Chubb Microbiology - R.Haneke Tuesday April 16th‚ 2013 ELEPHANTITIS Causitive agent & description Elephantitis or lymphatis filariasis infects many species of vertebrates and invertebrates including humans. This is a tropical disease caused by a parasitic round worms known as microfilariae that enter the blood. Genus involved include Wolbachia‚ Wuchereria and Brugia. For humans to get this disease they must usually get bitten by a mosquito‚ which acts as the host and vector
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Equine Encephalitis Equine encephalitis is a virus us humans in south texas are exposed to through the abundance of a common vector‚ mosquitos. Mosquitos are known to be the most obligatory biological vector for transmitting these viruses. Of the three different types of “Group A” arboviruses‚ the eastern equine encephalitis and western equine encephalitis are the ones native to our area and can also cause febrile disease in humans and horses. EEV also utilizes hosts in two different way. One being
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Black or Africa-American children from 4 years of age by 42% from 1999 through 2002. (www.cdc.gov). It is interesting to note that the areas with the highest frequency of sickle cell disease also have infection with Plasmodium falciparum that causes malaria in human. In the United States‚ there is an estimated population of 270 millions about 1‚000 babies are born with sickle cell disease each year. It means there are 1-2% of all babies having this disease in the total of 25% of people with sickle cell
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To what extent did medical advancements during world war two impact the lives of soldiers? One may argue that one of the most helpful drugs during word war two‚ penicillin‚ was discovered in 1960‚ prior to world war two. Although penicillin wasn’t discovered during world war two‚ it was improved on many levels during the time such as production on an industrial scale‚ it became much more readily available‚ and by 1945 it was 20 times stronger than the 1939 version of penicillin. Therefore‚ even
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attract mosquitos (Butler). Mosquitoes can smell their dinner from an impressive distance of 50 meters‚ explained by Edman from the website‚ http://www.webmd.com/allergies/features/are-you-mosquito-magnet. Diseases caused by Mosquitos such as dengue‚ malaria‚ encephalitis‚ etc.‚ can affect us in different ways especially to our health. According to the experts of www.scribd.com/-Mosquito-Facts-and-Trivia‚ female mosquitos may lay 100- 300 eggs at a time and may average 1‚000 to 3‚000 offspring during
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Course Name: Dengue Instructor’s Name: Fatima Eayesha S. Sali General Objective: The course deals with the concept of aspects of nursing management‚ treatments‚ preventions‚ clinical signs and symptoms of a patient experiencing Dengue Fever. This serves an additional knowledge for the patient having the said disease. Venue: Brent Hospital Placement: Patients/Watchers |Specific Objectives |Content
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Fatima Alizzi Mr. Benson Bio-116-001 21 October 2014 Yellow fever: An epidemiological and historical review Introduction Few diseases have attracted more attention from medical historians than yellow fever (YF). It was one of the most feared of epidemic diseases in the world from the 15th to 19th centuries‚ when large scale outbreaks in port cities of North and South America‚ Africa‚ and Europe caused devastating mortality and helped to shape the expansion of settlements and colonial powers (1)
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AP Biology/Pd. 2 11/13/13 “Silent Springs” Test Content Questions: 1. Carlson classifies modern insecticides into two groups of chemicals. The first group‚ represented by DDT‚ is known as the “chlorinated hydrocarbons” and the other group‚ represented by Malathion and parathion‚ consists of the organic phosphorus insecticides. Although both are organic‚ the organic phosphorous insecticides are more poisonous than the chlorinated hydrocarbons and have the ability to destroy enzymes. 2. When insecticides
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African Sleeping Sickness is an infectious disease caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei. The parasite is a eukaryote‚ as it has a fully functioning mitochondria and other membrane-bound organelles. An infection is caused from the infected bite of the tsetse fly (also known as genus Glossina)‚ which can inject harmful parasites that once in the body‚ they gradually invade it. Over the course of history‚ African Sleeping Sickness has only been known since the late 19th century and
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