XI. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY Medical Diagnosis T/C Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever/ Pleural Effusion‚ T/C Liver Pathology Definition Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever - is a severe‚ potentially deadly infection spread by certain species of mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti). Pleural Effusion - is excess fluid that accumulates in the pleural cavity‚ the fluid-filled space that surrounds the lungs. Excessive amounts of such fluid can impair breathing by limiting the expansion of the lungs during inhalation. Liver
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How has the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793 change history? An appalling contagious outbreak impacted the colossal city of America and its country’s capital. In the summer of 1793 the weather was brutally humid and mild. Therefore‚ this infectious disease has initiated in August and is known to be terminated approximately few months later in November. This disease has commenced by mosquitoes and caused a massive amount of deaths. Not only has this epidemic dispatched numerous people it
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Defn:Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever(DHF) are acute febrile diseases transmitted by mosquitoes‚ which occur in the tropics‚ can be life-threatening‚ and are caused by four closely related virus serotypes of the genus Flavivirus‚ family Flaviviridae.It was identified and named in 1779. It is also known as breakbone fever‚ since it can be extremely painful. Causative Agent: . Dengue is transmitted to humans by the Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti or more rarely the Aedes albopictus mosquito. The mosquitoes that
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Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer’s Day? William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ And oft’ is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d: But
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Typhoid fever mostly preys upon people from the United States who visit other countries‚ because in a foreign country food and drink may have been handled by a person who is shedding Salmonella Typhi or if the bacteria gets into the water you use for washing or drinking. Salmomella Typhi hides in beverages‚ most commonly milk or water. It also hides in food that is usually a foreign delicacy of some sort that has been contaminated by Salmonella Typhi in some way. Typhoid fever usually causes
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The next image‚ a famous image‚ is of Anne Frank‚ and it may question people as to what the relation is between Anne Frank and typhus fever. According to the Anne Frank Museum Amsterdam‚ “Margot and Anne Frank remain in Bergen-Belsen for over three months‚ until they succumb to the effects of typhus and other hardships of the camp” (“The last days of Margot and Anne Frank”‚ 1). The story of Anne Frank was one of happiness and sorrow; leading a short life and in that life‚ she succumbed to the harsh
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The harrowing accounts of people that suffered through the yellow fever epidemic of 1885 presented the devastation caused by communicable diseases to an uninformed society. It is disheartening to read about the chain of events that lead to the death of thousands of people who were victims of both the disease and their time period. They were fighting a disease with an unknown etiology‚ unknown mode of transmission‚ and no clear treatment. They fought a losing battle with winter as their only saving
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caused by members of the Brucella genus that can infect humans but primarily infects livestock. Symptoms of the disease include intermittent fever‚ sweating‚ chills‚ aches‚ and mental depression. The disease can become chronic and recur‚ particularly if untreated. Also known as undulant fever‚ Malta fever‚ Gibralter fever‚ Bang’s disease‚ or Mediterranean fever‚ brucellosis is most likely to occur among those individuals who regularly work with livestock. The disease originated in domestic livestock
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I have recently finished the book "Fever 1789" by Laurie Halse Anderson. It was filled with a roller coaster of emotion leaving the reader on the edge before every chapter. The description in the book fills my mind of how it was back in the 1700’s. This book demostrats a good understanding of the environment and tone in the book. At the end of the book it shows real life sections of how Anderson used history into a fictional story. The other book i’m reading is "Night" by Ellie Wiesel. It shows a
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1140811408What is dengue? Dengue is a viral infection transmitted by the bite of an infected female Aedes mosquito. Estimated 100 million cases of dengue fever occurring throughout the world annually. Virulence factors Dengue fever (Fever Dengue) Dengue haemorrhagic fever ((Fever Hemorrhagic The virus that causes dengue fever has four different serotypes DEN-1‚ DEN-2‚ DEN-3‚ and DEN-4. These serotypes have the same genome and morphology but different antigens. Morphology and life cycle
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