10/9/13 On October 9th I attended the colloquium “Charity Water‚” by Cubby Graham. In this colloquium‚ Graham talked about 800 million people who didn’t have access to clean‚ safe drinking water. Diseases such as e. Coli‚ Salmonella typhi‚ and schistosoma were found in the water that they were drinking from. They shared the same water with the animals as well. People were also battling with leaches stuck in their throat from drinking the water. Graham talked about this one
Premium Drinking water Bottled water United States Environmental Protection Agency
MeganEgg – protection for commercial layers against Salmonella enteritidis infection for consumer protection Karen E. BurnsA‚ Sandra M. Kelly-AehleB‚ Julie A. LawrenceC A D.V.M.‚ M.A.M‚ diplomate A.C.P.V‚ Technical Services Veterinarian‚ Lohmann Animal Health International‚ Inc.‚ 1146 Airport Parkway‚ Gainesville‚ GA 30501 B Biologicals Development Director‚ AVANT Immunotherapeutics‚ Inc. dba Megan Health‚ Inc.‚ 8620 Pennell Drive‚ St. Louis‚ MO 63114 CResearch Scientist‚ AVANT Immunotherapeutics
Premium Vaccine Vaccination Chicken
ordinary. Rumors of several cases of Salmonella had been going around but nobody really took it serious because medical professionals never confirmed it. Everyone knows that around fall time the seasonal flu and common colds go around but they’re not that serious because they have vaccines. Over the next 2 weeks more and more cases started popping up and were confirmed by doctors. Salmonella doesn’t have a vaccine‚ so the city of new york declared an outbreak. When things started to get progressively
Premium
The first set of data is from the EcN WT vs STm and the second set of data is from the EcN mchDEF vs the STm. The STm is the diarrheal pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. The x-axis depicts day 1‚ day 4‚ and day 7. The y-axis depicts the ratio in the faecal content post-inoculation. There are error bars over each of the bars in the graph. Day 1 shows that the graphs being compared are
Premium Pie chart Escherichia coli Scientific method
members of the genus Vibrio are Gram-negative‚ motile and most of the members have a single polar flagellum‚ when grown in liquid medium (Kaysner & DePaola‚ 2004). Vibrio cholerae lives naturally in riverine and is the causative agent of cholera outbreaks and epidemics. Vibrio cholerae is comma-shaped. Initial isolates are slightly curved‚ whereas they can appear as straight rods upon laboratory culturing. Vibrio cholerae is a facultative anaerobe and can undergo respiratory and fermentative metabolism
Premium Bacteria Microbiology Escherichia coli
The SARS Outbreak of 2003 Western Governors University January 15‚ 2013 The SARS Outbreak of 2003 Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory caused by a coronavirus. Coronavirus is in the same virus family as the common cold. Most commonly spread through person to person contact and droplets when a person coughs or sneezes. It can also be spread when a person touches a surface or object contaminated with the virus then touch their nose‚ mouth or eyes. Characterized
Premium
Managing Outbreaks of an Infection M1: Explain how to manage an outbreak of infection in health or social care setting NICE and Department of Health Guidelines NICEandDepartment of Health guidelines set the standards for high quality healthcare. It encourages a healthy lifestyle for people. The NICE and Department of Health guidelines are also used by the NHS‚ Local Authorities‚ employers‚ voluntary groups and anyone else involved in delivering care and promoting wellbeing. The recommendations that
Premium Tuberculosis
best way to estimate how threatening and common this virus can be. Epidemiological studies have reported a total of 44 countries which had Zika outbreaks from 2007 to 5 February 2016. This includes 33 countries that reported transmission in between 2015 and 2016. The most affected countries are Brazil with up to 1‚482‚701 cases reported since the outbreak began and Colombia with 20‚297 cases reported (up to 23 January 2016). Since the country’s first cases were detected in October 2015‚ there has
Premium Infectious disease Immune system HIV
chose to learn more about was Oklahoma NW Oklahoma Wildfire Outbreak. My family’s home burned down when I was a junior in high school so I can readily relate to fire disasters. Our home fire‚ however‚ was electrical and not a natural disaster. Our house had to be completely redone and we were out of our home for six months. I cannot imagine having the stress of knowing that your house was in the path of the fire. The Oklahoma Wildfire Outbreak occurred on March 6‚ 2017 and was declared on the disaster
Premium United States Hurricane Katrina Great Depression
How does an individual get cholera? "A person can get cholera by drinking water or eating food contaminated with the cholera bacterium". With further research into the mapping of the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak‚
Premium Cholera Epidemiology