Biology Assessment: Influenza Structure: Viruses are non-cellular obligate intracellular parasites‚ requiring a living host cell in order to reproduce. A developed viral particle (virion) lacks the metabolic machinery of cells‚ containing just a single type of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) encased in a protein coat or capsid. Viruses can be distinguished by their structure and by the nature of their genetic material (single or double stranded DNA or RNA). Viruses that affect humans are more difficult
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(Morillon and Garnotel 2004). This bacterium had caused seven serious global pandemic. The longest period of pandemic and the most widespread of cholera geographically is the seventh pandemic (Claire et al. 2004). It lasted from year 1961 to 1991 affecting countries like America‚ Indonesia and Africa (Claire et al. 2004). Underdeveloped countries like Africa‚ Bangladesh and India have higher possibility of having pandemic of cholera due to the lack of sanitary problem and health education (Claire
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disinfection autoclave pandemic epidemic Diseases affecting many people at the same time antigen antibody vaccine A weakened bacteria or virus given to a person to build immunity against a disease. 1. What ancient culture was the first to organize medical care? (physicians with armies‚ beginning of hospitals and public health) Romans 2. What contribution did ancient China make to medicine? Acupuncture 3. What disease is an ancient example of a pandemic? ‚a modern pandemic? 4. What period
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using everyday. Butler shows in this story the importance of speech and how it can have a detrimental affect on society. It shows feminism‚ Rye is the only female that can speak. This gives her a sense of power that females today do not have. This pandemic can destroy a whole population and greatly impact how people go about lives. Being able to have a voice as a certain gender and as a person in general would significantly impact the way society
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Robert Neville is the apparent sole survivor of a pandemic whose symptoms resemble vampirism. It is implied that the pandemic was caused by a war‚ and that it was spread by dust storms in the cities and an explosion in the mosquito population. The narrative details Neville’s daily life in Los Angeles as he attempts to comprehend‚ research‚ and possibly cure the disease‚ to which he is immune. Neville’s past is revealed through flashbacks: The disease claimed his wife and daughter‚ and he was forced
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Joey Peixoto Professor Colchico Health & Wellness 9 May 2016 Infectious Disease Influenza‚ generally known as "the flu virus"‚ is an irresistible illness brought on by a flu virus.Symptoms can be gentle to severe.The most regular indications include: a high fever‚ runny nose‚ sore throat‚ muscle torments‚ cerebral pain‚ hacking‚ and feeling tired. These indications regularly start two days after introduction to the infection and most last not exactly a week. The hack‚ nonetheless‚ may keep going
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assignment‚ we hope to understand the effects the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak in the year 2003 had on Singapore and by determining how successful Singapore had managed the pandemic‚ we will then find ways in which Singapore could improve on in the area of being able to handle future pandemic outbreaks more efficiently and to minimize the negative impacts it might have on Singapore. We will be focusing on mainly 3 effects‚ namely the tourism industry‚ Singapore’s manpower and Singaporean’s
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LAHORE‚ PUNJAB‚ PAKISTAN‚ October 01‚ 2014 /PressReleasePing/ - The first situation report on ‘Post-Disaster’s Epidemiological Susceptibility & Pandemic Outbreaks (PostDESPO) assessment has been prepared by UNESCO Adjoined Monitoring Cell for floods 2014. DESPO report entails the technical aspects of the aftermath consequences of the raging floods pandemic proneness‚ contagion predispositions and epidemiological vulnerabilities‚ and puts ‘high-spot’ emphasis with a necessitating focus on the analysis
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Veronicah The implication of HIV/ AIDS on African Society Introduction Studies on human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) prevalence have indicated that HIV/AIDS continues to ravage the African countries. According to a report by the UNAIDS‚ it is estimated that 69% of all the people living with HIV finds their home in Africa (78). This is a relatively high prevalence considering that Africa accounts for only 14.5% of the world population. Although some
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epidemic b) endemic c) pandemic 3. Which of the following statements is true concerning epidemic diseases? a) They are usually not very contagious. b) At the end of an epidemic‚ a disease spreads at an increasing rate and then abruptly disappears. c) They usually appear and disappear seasonally. 4. An epidemic that becomes unusually widespread and even global in its reach is referred to as a _________________ . a) pandemic b) hyperendemic c)
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