Syphilis Women’s Health Overview • Syphilis is an STD that can cause long-term complications if not treated correctly. Symptoms in adults are divided into stages. These stages are primary‚ secondary‚ latent‚ and late syphilis. Transmission • You can get syphilis by direct contact with a syphilis sore during vaginal‚ anal‚ or oral sex. Sores can be found on the penis‚ vagina‚ anus‚ in the rectum‚ or on the lips and in the mouth. Syphilis can also be spread from an infected mother to her unborn
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Dorothy Crowfoot (later called Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin) was born on May 12‚ 1910 in Cairo‚ Egypt to John Winter Crowfoot and Grace Mary Hood Crowfoot. John was a school inspector that worked for the Egyptian Education Service and later became the Director of Education and Director of Antiquities in Sudan. He retired in 1926 and focused on archaeology and later became the Director of Jerusalem’s British School of Archaeology. Grace Mary was botanist and illustrated the different flora found in Sudan
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Bacterial Meningitis is a horribly life shacking disease. Bacterial Meningitis can be a very destructive disease it can leave people with horrible and lasting aftermath if survived but if not it could destroy the brain leaving it black and rotting. Bacterial Meningitis has many symptoms‚ ways of spreading‚ treatments and prevention for this horrible disease‚ and it’s very interesting history and how things about it changed. The History of Bacterial meningitis is full of breakthroughs and outbreaks
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Running Head: INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS Epidemiology Paper Infectious Mononucleosis By: Nuala Nowicki‚ RN NRS427V Concepts in Community and Public Health Grand Canyon University Due: November 9‚ 2014 1 Running Head: INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS 2 DESCRIPTION “Infectious mononucleosis is named for the large numbers of white blood cells (mononuclear cells) in the bloodstream.” (Merck). Infectious Mononucleosis is more
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The reason was that many men died who could have been saved. Even when penicillin was available‚ the doctors neglected the men real treatment. The experimenters deceived the test subjects‚ by not telling them the truth of their condition in the first place. In addition‚ because of the lack of oversight and formal protocol‚ nothing
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Pfizer and Charles Erhart founded Charles Pfizer and Company in Brooklyn‚ New York. In 1928‚ Dr. Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin started the expansion of modern medicine and offered hope in the battle against infection. But penicillin couldn’t be manufactured in large quantities to help people until Pfizer pioneered its mass production. "The success of penicillin lead to the company’s initial public offering in June 1942. In 1950‚ Terramycin (oxytetracycline)‚ a broad-spectrum antibiotic
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Bacterial Biology █ BRIAN D. HOYLE An understanding of the fundamentals of bacterial biology is critical to bacteriologists and other forensic investigators attempting to identify potential biogenic pathogens that may be exploited as agents in biological warfare or by bioterrorists. Fundamentals of Bacterial Biology Bacteria are one-celled prokaryotic organisms that lack a true nucleus (i.e.‚ a nucleus defined by a membrane). Bacteria maintain their genetic material‚ deoxyribonucleic
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1. A few examples of things that can affect our growth and change throughout our lifetime are: telomeres‚ mutations‚ DNA and epigenetics. DNA is short for deoxyribonucleic acid‚ the building block of life that provides the hereditary material that is a blueprint for living organisms. It determines our physical features which are passed on to us from our parents through 23 chromosomes. Genes determine height‚ hair color‚ eye color and many other traits. Genetic disorders occur because of
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Anthrax is an infectious disease and it is caused by Bacillus anthracis. It is also called Splenic Fever‚ or Charbon. There are three types of Anthrax‚ there is cutaneous (anthrax of the skin‚) inhalation anthrax‚ and gastrointestinal anthrax. Anthrax is a large‚ rod shaped bacterium. It mostly affects animals but also can be transmitted to humans. Anthrax’s first incident was in 1500 B.C. in the early writings of Mesopotamia and the Book of Genesis. The Old Testament description of the 5th
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1. In London in 1814‚ at least 8 people were killed when a container burst and they were flooded with 1‚470‚000 litres of a/ Molasses b/ Beer c/ Vinegar 2. When engineers drilled for natural gas near Derweze in Turkmenistan in 1971‚ the ground collapsed beneath the drilling rig‚ forming a crater 70 meters in diameter. Worried about the consequences of a poisonous gas discharge‚ the engineers set fire to the crater‚ thinking the gas would burn off in a few days. When did the fire burn out? a/ 1991
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