...Disease in the News West Nile Virus Disease in the News – West Nile Virus The West Nile virus made its deadly debut in New York City September 27, 1999. The virus had never been seen in the Western Hemisphere of the United States. It is said to be usually found in Africa and Europe. When it made its debut, it was first believed to have been the St. Louis encephalitis. Experts at the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have confirmed the virus to be West Nile. Nearly twice as many people in the New York region have been stricken by the mosquito borne illness as earlier recognized (Fish, 1999). The outbreak of the West Nile had New Yorkers shocked that a mosquito bite could be so deadly. During the time of the outbreak, there were 37 confirmed cases of the West Nile virus in New Yorkers. Twenty-five of these New Yorkers were from New York City, eight from Westchester County, and four from Nassau County. Although there are confirmed cases, 162 cases were still under investigation and eight deaths had doctors still studying the tissue and blood of the victims (Albany Times Union, 1999). There are 70 types of mosquitoes living in New York, but only 30 of them carry the virus. The West Nile virus outbreak stemmed from prolonged drought, which produced a large supply of the northern house mosquito, Culex pipiens. The Culex pipiens lives near people but generally feeds on birds. This particular mosquito is efficient at transmitting certain viruses...
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...Taking a comprehensive look at the quality of healthcare for our senior citizens and answering the question why the United States has a epidemic of obesity and how we can stop it. Today, the health care systems have advanced by prolonging life expectancy and quality of life. Though, providing health care is not cheap and easy to do. Cost, accessibility, and quality is a challenge that they face in order to provide the people with healthcare. Learning and being aware of disease trends can provides us with invaluable knowledge in treating our elderly and preventing obesity in today's society.. The major tend that will influence healthcare in the future of the United States is when the generation known as the"baby boomers", who are the the fastest growing age groups and adults born between (1946 and 1964) will turn 65 in 2011.(1) This group of seniors will also have chronic health conditions as they age that will be the major cause of illness, disability, and death in the United States. The nations population is estimated to increase to to increase to 392 million by 2050 because life expectancy is projected to increase from 76.0 years in 1993 to 82.6 years in 2050. In 2050, life expectancy in the low assumption would be 75.3 years and in the high assumption would be 87.5 years. “About 30 percent of the population in 1994 were born during the Baby Boom. As this population ages, the median age will rise. People born during the Baby Boom will...
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...Article Critique: Sleeping Sickness Parasite Has a Weak Spot in Its Tail Name of student Name of institution Sickness Parasite Has a Weak Spot in Its Tail. Sleeping sickness parasite has a weak spot in its tail - SciDev.Net. (2006, March). Retrieved January 12, 2014, from http://www.scidev.net/global/health/news/sleeping-sickness-parasite-has-a-weak-spot-in-its.html The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of curtailing tsetse flies that are known to cause sleeping sickness. In March 2006, scientists discovered that the sleeping sickness parasite does not reproduce if its whip like tail called the flagellum stops working. Sleeping sickness affects about 500,000 people and kills about 50,000 every year in Sub-Saharan Africa. Caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma brucei, the scientists found out that the parasite’s long flagellum is used to sense or move things in their environment (and likened it to the human sperm flagellum that enables it to move towards the egg). Other scientists suggest that the structure aids the parasite to divide into two when it is multiplying in the human bloodstream. Scientists found out that the flagellum had about 300 proteins some of which were unique to the parasite. When the team selected a number of proteins and inactivated them, they found out that the cells could not divide or pull apart. They concluded that the tail is a good target in development of future drugs as long as they do not affect the patient. The...
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...One example of Mutualism is the orange Costus flower has glands that produce nectar, the Trap-jaw ants drink. The ant stays on the flower sipping nectar and scares away insects that could come to harm to the flower. An exmaple of Paratism the fungi attack carpenter ants and turn them into zombies,then when the ant dies the fungi can grow from the corpse. An exmaple of commensalism is the posion dart frog benefit by using the leaves of the vermiliad as shelter from rain and sun. The vermiliad is unaffect from the posion dart frogs. The environmental problems the Amazons faces is goverment programmes are pushing for consant development. THey often encourage clearanceof teh forest for cattle ranching,soybean production,and oil drilling. China...
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...I personally think working six hours a day well not help out with people who need the hours and money. It all comes out if they person who needs the hours that well except six hours of work. Personallyi i well not work for just six hours if i had a family to take care, or even if i just bought a new house. Also im a hard working men i love to make hours at my job, and recieveing extra money does not hurt. I personally would not work just for six hours. People with diffrent jobs well not like this idea because it depends where you work at if you work where you are recieveing minimum wage. People would not like just to work for six hours each day, they might not have enough money to take care of what they need to take care of. They would...
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...Communication During and After Hurricane Andrew The largest natural disaster ever recorded in the history of the United States was hurricane Andrew, which struck South Dade County, Florida, as midnight turned the clock into August 24, 1992. Contrary to what the American news media broadcast across the United States and throughout Europe, the first outer wall of the hurricane unexpectedly slammed into South Dade, packing 214+ mph winds which quickly escalated to 350+ mph. Most of the 414,151 residents living in the danger zone were asleep when the outer wall struck. Thousands of them lost their lives, for no one in South Dade had been evacuated or even advised to evacuate. (Frankovich, 2001) Hurricane Andrew was a powerful category 4 hurricane, which made landfall in Dade County, Florida on August 24, 1992. The hurricane was later upgraded to a category 5 due to the storms extremely strong and damaging winds. When the storm made landfall it reportedly had sustained winds of 145 mph and wind gusts of 175 mph. In Dade County alone, the storm left 15 dead and approximately 250,000 residents homeless. According to (Rappaport, 1992) an additional 25 lives were lost due the after effects of the storm. No one knew exactly how big the storm would be and how much it would impact the southern part of Florida. Damage caused by the storm was estimated at $25 billion dollars. In Dade County alone, some 25,000 homes were destroyed and over 101,000 were damaged. In Homestead...
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...Another Route to Treating DND Jagged 1 rescues the Dunchenne Muscular Dystropy Phenotype Golden Retirever Muscular Dystropy -mutaiton in the same gene -found out that these escape routs have a mutation in the second genge -if you make a lot of that protein made in jagged one ? -for some reason, overexpression of jagged one prevents the tearing down of the muscles. -Correction of a genetic disease by CRISPR-CAS 9 mediated gene editing in mouse spermatogonial stem cells -went into the disease mouse. -cataract disease (Genetic disease) -they did with spermanigal cells (exists within the sperm cells?) mice like males can produce sperm throughout most of their lives. The stem cells have to constantly regenerate. They generate stem cells first. They have the mutation. They can go through manipulation and once they can go through the protein. Once they do that they can pick single colonies they can check for off target affects (when you program a nucleaus to a certain site but it is also possible it will cut at a related site) -not possible with humans. QUESTIONS Current laws surrounding the manipulations of germlines? -considered unethical (we don’t have enough intelligence to do that kind of manipulations). We are making decisions for people who haven’t been born yet. Prohibigted by law (laws against it in the US) much of the research is funded by NIH which has strict regulations that you can’t intentionally modify the germline. You can’t get NIH funding. Can you get any...
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...Disease Control, cognitive impairment is when a person has trouble remembering, learning new things, concentrating, or making decisions that affect their everyday life (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2011). Non-white Hispanics suffer from cognitive impairment at an alarming rate. The rise in cognitive impairments is the result of several factors including the prevalence of certain medical conditions and socioeconomic status. The term cognitive impairment is classified under several axis I mental alterations. These alterations include delirium, dementia and amnestic disorders (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [DSM-IV-TR], 2000). Many internal and external factors can lead to the development or exacerbation of these mental alterations. Internal factors, such as hypertension, diabetes, neurodegenerative disorders, nutritional, metabolic and endocrine disorders and infectious disorders are all examples of medical conditions that can contribute to cognitive impairment (Round, 2010). External factors include educational background and socioeconomic factors. Already the largest minority, Hispanics are also the fastest growing ethnic population in the United States (The Americano, 2011). The rise in the population of Hispanics also makes the prevalence of certain conditions, such as cognitive impairment, much more visible. That is especially true in large cities such as New York City. Although the term “Nuyoricans” pertains to those persons of 2nd generation...
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...differnet countries. They came for change, better jobs, better optunities for there children and simply live the american dream. But Its not easy adjusting to a different enviroment, and most immgrants struggle with that. Challeneges like Language, religion, racism, culture and facing this new world are crucial. In this essay I will show examples how immgrants face the trancition to America. So what are the challeneges every Immgrant faces while they are in America? In the article, Biggest challenges faced by immgrants in the U.S shows how the culture is hard to adjust. Cultural barriers hits Immagrants...
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...The Social Impact Of Social Policies In Human Services Kimberly Covington Walden University Human Services Theory HUMN-8151-2 November 02, 2014 The Social Impact Of Social Policies In Human Services Poverty and Homelessness has become a constant contribution to the economic crisis which continues to plague society. There are several factors which can contribute to the homeless population such as alcohol usage, drug usage, education, mental health issues, criminality, and the unfortunate employability of armed forces personnel. A major cause of homelessness is health related issues which contribute to economic instability, which can affect an individual’s ability and accessibility to work in certain capacities. Adequate health, nutrition, and education effects the individual’s ability to work and function in secondary and vocational schooling. Debilitating and chronic diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension; all which can be directly related to poor nutrition due to limited availability to healthy food choices. Poor nutrition can also be a big contributor to recovery time necessary to get back to work from illnesses. This lack of health care affordability and the ability for individuals to recover from illness exacerbates the effect the financial deficit of the economy. The affordability of healthcare has contributed to working families’ deciding whether it is important to pay healthcare premiums or pay household bills such as food, shelter,...
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...Males and females of every culture and financial status are affected by sexual transmitted diseases. According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention "the United States has the topmost measures of sexual transmitted diseases in the industrialized world, with scales of sexual transmitted diseases forty to 100 times greater than those in other industrial lands (CDC,2006a). Sexual transmitted disease pertain to over 20 communicable agents that are spread mainly through sexual activity. "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rates that there are nearly nineteen million new STD cases every year (CDC, 2006a)." Nearly half of the sexual transmitted infections appears in young adults 15 to 24 years of age. Sexual transmitted diseases...
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...of weight gain and body fat thoughtout the life course. Describe the effect that obesity in a childhood has had on you personally. We have all heard the stories about the happy fat person, right? Being obese comes with emotional downfalls as a kid as well as an adult. For overweight children as well as their parents, living with excess pounds can be heartbreaking. In its own way, the social stigma attached to being overweight can be as damping to a child as the physical dieases and conditions that often accompany obesity. You can probably see it in the eyes and hear it in the words of you own children. In a society that puts a premium on thinness, studies show that children as young as 6 years may associate negative sterotypes with exess weight and believe that a heavy child is simply less likiable. A contributing factor of obesesi ny years ago protestors took to the streets to ensure that women can have career opportunities equal to men. With countless of hours of protesting and new laws changes in the 90’s gave push women closer to that goal, to finally be considered equal in the work field. Yet the moment she decided to become a mother and have a family inequalities between woman and the majority quickly became clear. There is so much can be done in the Corporate America world. The transition to parenthood is...
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...to be false after the Dalai Lama himself denied them. I think it is a very important factor that when choosing a religion or faith that no persons opinion but your own should decided what you decision may be. There are many violent attacks over this matter, which I can understand because it is very disrespectful to any practice. There is nothing wrong with spreading the word or practicing your own religion but once you start forcing opinion or beliefs on others it becomes unfair. God Save The Teens Wow, this was an extremely interesting article. As I read it I mentally made a pro’s and con’s list and I came out with mixed reviews. This article is about a large and growing group of teens from places from New York, south Bronx to Long Island. They have found a new way to practice religion, they do it in the from of rap contests freestyle frenzies and “hip” sermons. This can be a very positive and productive situation considering that it is actually attracting many teens. Yet with terms used like and slogans like “I WOULD DIE TONIGHT FOR MY BELIEFS” and starting sermon off with “yo, God Bless, brother” I find it kind of disrespectful and offensive. Another popular belief among the groups is the way you come looking and dressed to a gathering. Dirty hair and ratty clothes aren’t frowned upon “you don’t have to comb your hair and put on a suit, God will accept you for that.” That may be the case but have they ever heard of respect. John Paul’s Health Raises...
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...Scholar Essay Who am I to judge ones race, class or gender? , from the way they to look to the sway in their, who am I to judge what they should be called or what they shouldn’t be called. Just because the individual is a lighter color than me or from a different ethnicity, aren’t we all consider to be as an equal? The binary stereotyping and mixed cultural signals of African American and Latino females are identified in Mammies, Matriarch and Other Controlling Images and The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria examines the race, class, gender, and sexuality and how these representations speak to the African American and Latino women .Race, Class, and Gender are constructed categories that causes controlling images such as Mammy, Hot Tamale, Bad Black Woman, and Jezebels to become a natural way of thinking leading women to act and believe that is who they are and eventually they who will become. Patricia Collins article (Chap 4), “Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images” (2000), defines the oppression, objectification, and controlling images of African American women in the society, as well as the social acceptance of African American women. Collins supports her theories and hypothetical thinking with supporting statements from other black feminist that illustrate similar beliefs and theories that she asserts in her article. Collins purpose and objective is to point out the stereotypical condition of African American women in the society and...
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...Assignment #1 – Health Care Issues in the United States July 17, 2011 Because the United States spends the most on a health care system, one would think that most people in the U.S. would be healthy. This is not the case. Surprisingly, the United States does not have a particularly high life expectancy rate. Within this paper I will discuss heath issues in the United States including how heath effects behavior, economics, and social structure. I will also include key stages of medical technology development and population demographics. Explain how health is affected by behaviors, economics, and social structure. Statistical data and reports show social behavior, economic status, and social structure are important determinants of health. According to Williams and Torrens, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and illicit drug use are all examples of personal decision making and patterns of behavior that have a tremendous adverse effect on personal health and on the nation’s economy (Williams & Torrens, 2010) p.46. Individuals develop and live in social systems. People influence and are influenced by their families, social networks, the organizations in which they participate, their communities, and their society. Interventions to improve health or to influence health-related behavior can occur at any one or several of those levels. Several behaviors that exert a strong influence on health are tobacco use, alcohol abuse, physical activity, diet, and sexual practices.One example...
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