Vaccinations that act through different mechanisms provide methods of best containing viral spread. The significance that comes with vaccinations is understanding the herd mentality that medicine follows. In order to best protect a large population‚ it is not necessary‚ and is nearly impossible‚ to vaccinate all members of that community. However‚ vaccinations still prove to be effective methods of preventing diseases. This occurs by ensuring that an infected person is most likely to come into contact
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asthmatic and wheezing. For many children this means losing sleep‚ restricted physical activity‚ and missing school. Effects of overcrowding include meningitis‚ tuberculosis‚ heart disease‚ stomach cancer‚ respiratory disease. Children in overcrowded housing are up to 10 times more likely to contract meningitis than children in general. Meningitis can be life threatening. Long-term effects of the disease include deafness‚ blindness and behavioural problems. Children in unfit and overcrowded homes
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a major role in the binding process.19 After binding‚ through endocytosis the virus enters basal epithelial cells‚ and endosome/lysosome cause capsid disassembly. Next‚ the L2 protein facilitates transfer of the viral genome to nuclei of keratinocytes‚20 and with the help of early viral proteins (E1 and E2)‚ the virus maintains its episomal form and replicates in synchrony with host
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2.1Identify the signs and symptoms of common childhood illness2.1 The signs and symptoms of five childhood illnesses:Chickenpox • Feeling sick‚ aching and painful muscles‚ headache‚ generally feeling unwell and loss of appetite• Slight temperature‚ over 38ºc‚ before rash develops• Rash usually first appears on body‚ face and scalp‚ it then spreads to limbs• Rash begins as small‚ red‚ flat spots that develop into itchy‚ fluid filled blisters• Blisters are usually ¼“ wide and have a red base• After
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TD2.2 Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people 1. 1.1 legislation‚ guidelines and policies place duty on all those working in schools to ensure health‚ safety and security of children in their care. The current legislation for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people starts with all agencies working together. The UN convention on the rights of the child (1989) has set out the rights and freedoms of all children in a set of 54 articles included in those rights are
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I [felt] like I’m on a tight schedule and [had] lost a lot of years. Amy Purdy in Woman of Action also developed her confidence in pursuing her goal as a snowboarder from her obsession of snowboarding again. After surviving from a bacterial meningitis disease that nearly took her life on the summer night of July 1999‚ Amy realized that she was not going to snowboard again due to her two legs being amputated and did not want to waste her life at the hospital doing anything without helping other
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suppression Decreased (monopenia): Some forms of leukemia‚ bone marrow failure or suppression Increased (monocytosis): Monocytic leukemia‚ ulcerative colitis‚ viral diseases (mononucleosis and herpes zoster)‚ parasitic diseases (Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever) Increased (monocytosis): Monocytic leukemia‚ ulcerative colitis‚ viral diseases (mononucleosis and herpes zoster)‚ parasitic diseases (Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever) B Lymphocytes (B Cells): humoral immunity T Lymphocytes (T Cells): cell-mediated
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causes warts is circulized. Furthermore‚ viral nucleic acids range in molecular weight from less than 2million to more than 200million. The smallest virus is estimated to have fewer than five genes‚ whereas the largest possess several hundred. Lastly‚ the nucleic acid of some viruses is packed into the capsid similar to a box‚ while for others‚ the nucleic acid is assembled together with the capsomeres and is integrated into the structure of the
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Surgical Tech Valley Fever Joseph Ramoz Brookline College Monica Cervi-Instructor November 15‚ 2010 A disease also called coccidioidomycosis or (CM) due to a fungus called Coccidioides immitis. About 40% of people infected with this fungus develop symptoms. Most often they have an influenza-like illness with fever‚ cough‚ headaches‚ rash‚ and myalgias. Usually‚ those people with symptoms‚ 8% have severe lung disease requiring hospitalization and about 7% develop disseminated
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Kenisha Pinckney October 10‚ 2012 Biology 101 Synopsis “The Race to Create the Best Anti-Viral Drugs” What is the difference between an anti-biotic and an anti-viral drug? First it is important to find out what’s the difference between a bacteria and a virus. A bacterium is one of the three living domains of life. It is a prokaryote which means it does not house a nucleus or membrane-bounded organelles. However‚ it does have a nucleoid region where the DNA is stored. It can be said that bacteria
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