Dengue fever is a disease caused by a family of viruses that are transmitted by mosquitoes. It is an acute illness of sudden onset that usually follows a benign course with symptoms such as headache‚fever‚ exhaustion‚ severe muscle and joint pain‚ swollen glands(lymphadenopathy)‚ and rash. The presence of these symptoms is particularly characteristic of dengue. Other signs of dengue fever include bleeding gums‚ severe pain behind the eyes‚ and red palms and soles. Dengue can affect anyone but tends
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Background of the Study We have chosen this investigatory project because of our main purpose to help our country regarding the insects that brings deceases and causes death to our fellow Filipinos. It is important to prevent insects especially the mosquitoes that bring dengue and one of the causes of death of some people in our community. There are others who done this studies but we applied some innovations to the materials that we used. From the previous studies that we found‚ we changed some of the
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Devin Schoellkopf Mid Term Exam Part 5 Africa in the mid to late 1800s was still uncharted territory according to European countries. They all wanted the resources Africa had to offer‚ and were willing to do whatever it took to get them. Eventually after thousands upon thousands of deaths‚ Africa would be divided up into different colonies. There were many different causes of death in Africa‚ from diseases to people killing each other. Many countries wanted in‚ more people wanted them out. Africa
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way. Finding Eliza‚ Matilda recuperates with her family for a while. Eliza’s two nephews and Nell become infected with yellow fever. Matilda and Eliza take them to the Cook Coffeehouse‚ but available medicines have little effect. Frost kills the mosquitoes and ends the epidemic. Near the end of the book‚ Lucille comes back with the President. She is well but needs to take naps and take care of her health. At the end of the book‚ Matilda decides to take up a new job‚ as owner of the coffeehouse with
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The Panama Canal The Panama Canal is a canal that joins the two largest oceans in the world‚ the Atlantic ocean and the Pacific Oceans together. Canals are an artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation that is man made. How did they manage to construct this? They used science‚ they had to measure sea level‚ which required science. They used engineering to construct their route. They used several steam shovels to get the dirt out
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knows how to live in the wilds. They escape under cover of a snowstorm: a cynical American‚ a Russian thug‚ a comic accountant‚ a pastry chef who draws‚ a priest‚ and a Pole with night blindness. They face freezing nights‚ lack of food and water‚ mosquitoes‚ an
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Dengue survival rate dependency on income level‚ awareness‚ access to hospitals . Humans are the major hosts of the dengue virus and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes represent the principal vector .A aegypti is closely associated with human habitation and its larvae are often found in artificial water containers such as discarded tires‚ buckets and water storage facilities. Dengue is a mosquito borne disease that has recently become a public health concern. The WHO has estimated that 40% of the world’s
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Water Quality Raychel Rizzo 1/26/2013 Trent Sorensen SCI/275 Pollution is a world-wide spread problem that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. Water pollution is a big worry considering that water is essential to all living and nonliving things. As Adrian Armstrong (2006) says in his article Ethical issues in water use and sustainability‚ “...water is valuable‚ because we need it‚ and so we protect it in so far as it benefits us” (p. 10) The main problems
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yellow fever which was an epidemic that spread panic through our entire country. When it first broke out in Philadelphia unsanitary city conditions and dirty water were thought by some to be the cause. This disease turned out to be carried through mosquitoes. I enjoyed both these books in their own separate ways and they weren’t as boring a read as I thought they were going to be. The major difference I noticed about The Fever is that it was a made up story. The story follows a girl named Matilda
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SPEECH You are the president of the robotic Club in your school. You would like to present a speech entitled: ‘Keeping Robot Pet Is More Practical than Raising Real Pets’ at school assembly and compare the two types of pets. Good Morning to the Principal ‚ teachers and fellow students. My name is Rose Benitar and as the president of the Robotics Club‚ I would like to present a speech entitled ‘Keeping Robot Pets Is More Practical than Raising Real Pets’. I am sure many
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