Log on to the web site for the Centers for Disease Control Flu site. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/ On the right side of the page of‚ there is a USA map. Click on the USA maps to answer the following questions. List a few states that currently have only local activity? District of Columbia and Alaska What states if any have widespread activity? Widespread influenza activity was reported by Guam and 46 states (Arizona‚ Arkansas‚ California‚ Colorado‚ Connecticut‚ Delaware‚ Florida‚ Idaho‚ Illinois
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A.‚ and Lyons‚ K. J. (Ed). Allied health: practice issues and trends in the new millennium. New York: The Hawthorne Press. First human heart transplant (1996-2013). In History. Retrieved December 22‚ 2013 Levine‚ N. (2012‚ April 18). Understanding MRSA infection. In WebMD. Retrieved December 20‚ 2013
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death. Some of the skin infections include folliculitis‚ impetigo‚ cellulitis‚ boils. Once the bacteria has entered the bloodstream‚ it could result to endocarditis‚ septic arthritis‚ and osteomyelitis which usually affects infants and old people. MRSA is a bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the bacteria will be more virulent and will cause a more intense infection. It will just make it more difficult to treat. Epidemiology The most effective way of
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1. Explain the difference between signs and symptoms and give one example of each. A sign is an abnormal‚ objective finding‚ by the patient and can be found by physical examination. A symptom is a negative characteristic and can be described subjectively by the patient. An example of a sign would be a painless tumor‚ and an example of a symptom would be pain in the part of the body experienced by the patient. 2. What are some changeable predisposing factors to disease? What is the single greatest
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1796Present * 1796 Edward Jenner pioneered vaccination Edward Jenner‚ an English doctor‚ tested his theory that milkmaids who suffered minor cowpox never contracted smallpox by inserting pus from a cowpox pustule into a young boy. He was later proven to be immune and this became the first recorded vaccination. * 1799 Humphry Davy discovered laughing gas for pain relief Humphry Davy recognized the analgesic (pain-relieving) properties of nitrous oxide when he inhaled it while he had
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‘Superbugs’ Bacteria Bacteria are living organisms that can help the body and also cause infectious diseases. They are microscopic organisms and the largest is only 10 micrometres long (the same size as the world’s smallest guitar) the only living thing smaller than them is viruses. They can come in lots of different shapes and sizes. They grow and multiply every 20 minutes and are the same as the bacteria they came from‚ however they can sometimes mutate to adapt to their surroundings One
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Name _______________________ Period _________ Chapter 22: Descent with Modification: A Darwinian View of Life As you study this chapter‚ read several paragraphs at a time to catch the flow of ideas and understand the reasoning that is being described. In some places‚ the text describes a narrative or story of events that led to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Therefore‚ first read the narrative to absorb the big picture and then return to answer the few questions that accompany this material
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Well the scientific name for it is MRSA. You can get it from raw meat or even the touching of someone else’s skin. More that 90‚000 people get it a year and 20‚000 die from it. Most of the cases are MRSA causes more deaths than many dieses in the U. S. An antibiotic can treat it but the cure doesn’t work for everybody. So everyone has a risk of getting this problem
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Annotated bibliography Dasenbrook‚ EC.”Greater Risk of Death in People with Cystic Fibrosis and MRSA.” Journal of American Medical Association 303 (2010):2386-2392. Clinical Digest. Web. November 11‚ 2010. This Journal contains information on patients with Cystic Fibrosis with MRSA.It also shows association between respiratory tract MRSA and survival in Cystic Fibrosis. I feel like the author did a great job getting this information out to the public. Capron‚ Wayne. Surviving Childhood and Achieving
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and toxic shock syndrome. (Microbiology‚ 2005) Some strains produce an enterotoxin that causes staphylococcus aureus gastroenteritis‚ also known as food poisoning. The most harmful species of S. aureus is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); this bacterium has developed antibiotic resistance. (Microbiology‚ 2005) Each year‚ approximately half a million people are admitted to a hospital in the U.S. due to a staphylococcal infection. • How is this infectious agent transmitted through
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