...“Fever 1793” is a fiction novel, written by Laurie Halse Anderson. The action of the book takes place in 1793, Philadelphia. It features Mattie, a middle class girl living with her single mother and grandfather. A disease known as yellow fever, enters town and starts taking over the city. Before they know it, thousands are already dead. The streets are stranded and people of higher class are all fleeing to their country estates. After Mattie’s mother gets sick, she insists that she and her grandfather leave too, to avoid the disease. On the journey they are mistaken for fever victims and get stranded on the road, trying to get back to their family and escape the fever, before it gets to them. In the novel “Fever 1793”, the subject of social...
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...Homeostasis Homeostasis can be defined as the body's ability to maintain a regular internal environment. This is done by maintaining a body temperature within a certain field. An internal environment means the environment inside an organism. Negative feedback ensures that, in any control system, changes are reversed and returned back to the set level. The negative feedback keeps our body temperature at a constant 37°C. If we get too hot, blood vessels in our skin vasodilate (become larger) and we lose heat and cool down. If we get too cold blood vessels in our skin vasoconstrict (become smaller), we lose less heat and our body warms up. Negative feedback makes sure this happens. The other factors also controlled in the body by negative feedback are: blood oxygen levels and salt levels. The body loses heat through: * Evaporation of water from your skin if it is wet (sweating). If your clothing is wet, you will also lose some body heat through evaporation and through respiration (breathing) when the body temperature is higher than 99°F (37°C). During intense exercise, the body loses 85% of its heat through sweating. * Radiation (similar to heat leaving a woodstove). This normal process of heat moving away from the body usually occurs in air temperatures lower than 68°F (20°C). The body loses 65% of its heat through radiation. * Conduction (such as heat loss from sleeping on the cold ground). Heat is lost in air temperatures lower than 68°F (20°C). The body loses about...
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...Heatstroke is the result of untreated heat exhaustion and extremely high temperatures internally. Athletes get heatstroke caused by strenuous activity for a prolonged period of time in high temperatures. Once the internal temperature of the body is well above the ideal range important enzymes stop working and start to destabilise and cell membranes start to dissolve as a result of this important organs in torso are unable to carry out important metabolic reactions. If temperature continues to rise tissue damage can occur which can be extremely severe which in turn can cause disabilities. This severely breaks down the control system of thermoregulation which means the body can no longer control the the core temperature and cooling systems have been shut down due to lack of water. Heatstroke is very intense and could lead to the person ending up in a coma or even dead. So athletes don't get heatstroke they need to make sure they are wearing clothing that is breathable, they need to keep hydrated and restore electrolytes...
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...Homeostasis Homeostasis can be defined as the body's ability to maintain a regular internal environment. This is done by maintaining a body temperature within a certain field. An internal environment means the environment inside an organism. Negative feedback ensures that, in any control system, changes are reversed and returned back to the set level. The negative feedback keeps our body temperature at a constant 37°C. If we get too hot, blood vessels in our skin vasodilate (become larger) and we lose heat and cool down. If we get too cold blood vessels in our skin vasoconstrict (become smaller), we lose less heat and our body warms up. Negative feedback makes sure this happens. The other factors also controlled in the body by negative feedback are: blood oxygen levels and salt levels. The body loses heat through: * Evaporation of water from your skin if it is wet (sweating). If your clothing is wet, you will also lose some body heat through evaporation and through respiration (breathing) when the body temperature is higher than 99°F (37°C). During intense exercise, the body loses 85% of its heat through sweating. * Radiation (similar to heat leaving a woodstove). This normal process of heat moving away from the body usually occurs in air temperatures lower than 68°F (20°C). The body loses 65% of its heat through radiation. * Conduction (such as heat loss from sleeping on the cold ground). Heat is lost in air temperatures lower than 68°F (20°C). The body loses...
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...book Fever is a book about the struggle of a young girl named Mattie. She lives with her mother and grandfather,but her father died when she was 3. A bad plague breaks out in Pennsylvania killing many leaving few to survive and live. The food supplies are fading,there is no safe place. Mattie turns to other places to live,but there are limited places that will let them in. Her mother gets the plague and tells Mattie and her grandfather to leave to the Ludington's farm. But before they get there Mattie's grandfather suddenly comes down with the fever. They later are at Bush Hill,where Mattie gets over the fever and her grandfather turns out not to have the plague. After they recovered,they returned to the coffeehouse and see that it has been robbed. One night,Mattie gets too hot and opens a window,but in the middle of the night robbers come in and try to rob the place. After Mattie chases them,away she comes back and see's her grandfather died. She moves in with Eliza and her family,where she helps out with cooking and cleaning. Eliza's brother's kids get the fever and they take them to the coffeehouse and Eliza says that once the first frost comes the plague will be gone. When the first frost finally comes they take the kids outside to heal and within a few hours they are cured. Everybody comes back into town....
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...Jack FitzWilliam Mrs. Ruettgers English 9 October 2012 Yellow Fever Horrible sickness, awful violence, and sudden death are all experiences that no child should have to go through. However, these experiences can change a person’s character completely in a helpful way. The main character, Matilda Cook, in the book Fever, 1793 experiences all of these things as a teenager. This book follows her story of how she makes it through the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793, and how it changes her character and personality in a constructive way. This book was written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Simon & Schuster Books in 2000. Fever, 1793 is a horrifying, historical fiction book that is understood easily enough that anyone over the age of ten or eleven could read it, but the content can be graphic when scenes of sickness or death arise. Laurie Halse Anderson has also published popular books such as Speak and Wintergirls. The book Fever, 1793 is a powerful story of horrible sickness and death along with the transformation of a teenager into a mature, young adult. Stubborn Matilda lives in her family’s coffeehouse in Philadelphia with her mother, grandfather, a parrot, and a cat. Just like everyone else at the coffeehouse, Matilda must get up early and do her chores, but Matilda is your average teenager. No teenager enjoys getting up early, and Matilda is no exception. I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear and my mother screeching in the right....
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...Dengue (pronounced DENgee) fever is a painful, debilitating mosquito-borne disease caused by any one of four closely related dengue viruses. These viruses are related to the viruses that cause West Nile infection andyellow fever.An estimated 390 dengue infections occur worldwide each year, with about 96 million resulting in illness. Most cases occur in tropical areas of the world, with the greatest risk occurring in:*.The Indian subcontinent*.Southeast Asia*.Southern China*.Taiwan*.The Pacific Islands*.The Caribbean (except Cuba and the Cayman Islands)*.Mexico*.Africa*.Central and South America (except Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina)Most cases in the United States occur in people who contracted the infection while traveling abroad. But the risk is increasing for people living along the Texas-Mexico border and in other parts of the southern United States. In 2009, an outbreak of dengue fever was identified in Key West, Fla.Dengue fever is transmitted by the bite of an Aedes mosquito infected with a dengue virus. The mosquito becomes infected when it bites a person with dengue virus in theirblood. It can’t be spread directly fromone person to another person.Symptoms of Dengue FeverSymptoms, which usually begin four to six days after infection and last for up to 10 days, may include*.Sudden,high fever*.Severeheadaches*.Pain behind theeyes*.Severe joint andmuscle pain*.Fatigue*.Nausea*.Vomiting*.Skin rash, which appears two to five daysafter the onset of fever*.Mild bleeding (such a nose...
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...Yellow Fever Mersadez Polendo Medical Terminology – HLHS 101 April 9, 2015 Marleen Miller Abstract Fevers, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains and headaches; all of these symptoms just from a little bite by a female mosquito. Only affecting humans, other mammals, and even more species of mosquitoes. The disease is hard to point out from other flus, especially in the beginning stages. Some people get better within a week period. Some of those who improve in a day think it’s all over but then the fever returns as the pains do. Damage is caused to liver which can only mean the virus is getting worse. I choose this topic because it caught my attention and as I read about it I was intrigued more. I never knew about this virus so I thought about learning something new. Yellow Fever In the article Yellow Fever introduction explains at one time Yellow fever was the scariest diseases. A wide spread of vaccinations successfully making the virus under control for about 40 years and more in the mid-20s. Although late 1980s it returned putting risk in the West and Central Africa (The Yellow fever initative: an introduction, 2015). Yellow fever is transmitted from a bite of a mosquito in jungles and tropical rainforests. Another word for the Yellow fever is Yellow Jack or Black Vomit. The yellow that in the name is from jaundice which affects most patients. This disease is the first disease that which an insect is who vector carried this infectious disease. The virus...
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...response, is the response to a serious threat to the survival that is marked by physical changes that include nervous and endocrine changes that prepare body to react. The process of this is that the nervous impulses are sent to the brain. Then the hypothalamus sends increased signal down to sympathetic nerve to activate muscles and glands that also include adrenal glands. Then the adrenal glands produce adrenaline hormones, noradrenaline and cortisol that act on gland and muscles. Fight or flight response is produced when the hypothalamus activates adrenal-cortical glands system and sympathetic nervous system. Sympathetic nervous system use nerve pathway and the adrenal-cortical system use bloodstream to pledge reaction in body. Sympathetic nervous system send impulses to the smooth muscles and glands, it tells adrenal glands to release adrenaline and noradrenaline into blood streams. These are the stress hormones and they cause several changes in body that include the increased blood...
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...old when he came down with Potomac Fever. I slept at the barn for the past 2 weeks to make sure he stayed hydrated. Wulffe's starting to eat and drink water, so that's good, but, he can't put weight on his front feet. Hopefully it's just an abscess. Hopefully. The air mattress is wonderful! a push of a button each evening and the bed fills up with extra air. What a delight, but, the horses still wake me @5:30am every morning for feeding. As u know, the head of my bed is at the barn door. One morning I begged Rita to give me another hour of sleep as I'd been up all night getting Wulffe to eat a bit at a time. Ritakins gently lowered her head; put her forehead to my forehead and pushed me up onto my knees & out of bed.. What a Hoot! Even though I won the battle with Potomac Fever, Wulffe still foundered. The fever went to his feet causing swelling, allowing the bone to rotate and drop down.. this makes it painful to stand. if he had been much younger, we could do special shoes with thick pads to protect him from his bone feeling the ground.. but alas, he was a lot older then most horses .. and he had lost a lot of weight fighting Potomac Fever so he was weak. He had spent days standing leaning on the fence, wherever the fence met at a corner. The horses woke each morning @ 5:30am, which is nice, if you're already outside and the sun is shining}. This one morning I didn't see Wulffe. so I put my boots on and took off searching... found him stuck down in a ravine surrounded...
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...This incubation period averages about 12 to 14 days but can range from 7 to 17 days. People aren’t contagious during this period of time. Malaise, head and body aches, and sometimes vomiting, and fever are the first symptoms of smallpox. When you get this fever it’s usually very high at least in the range of 101 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit. At this time people are normally too sick to do or to carry on their daily routine. This lasts about 2 to 4 days and is called the prodrome phase. Over half of people with smallpox experience chills and vomiting. About 15% become confused. In the beginning a rash emerges as small red spots in the mouth and on the tongue. The red spots grow into sores which then open up and spread large amounts of the virus into the mouth and throat. This very person becomes most infectious, at this time. Sores in the mouth break down around this time. Then a rash appears on the face making its way to the other body parts. This usually happens within 24 hours. As the rash gets to increase, the fever starts to fall and the person starts to feel better. You get raised bumps by the third day of the rash. These bumps get filled with thick opaque fluid and often have a depression in the center that looks like a bellybutton, this all happens on the 4th day. The fever again will rise high and remain like that until scabs grow over the bumps filled with opaque. The virus is highly spreadable, as it moves into the mucous membranes right when the rash...
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...hardest one’s were she did not know how to do daily chores because she always had servants, the dust storm caused her mama to become sick with valley fever, and she and other mexicans faced discrimination in the U.S. First, one of Esperanza’s main challenges was she did not no how to do daily chores because she had always had servants. On page 116 it said, “In her entire life Esperanza had never held a broom in her hand”. In this time rich landowners did not no how to do daily chores because they always had servants, like Esperanza. She decides she needs to pull her weight by sweeping and cleaning. On page 116 it had said,” onion jackets flew into the air instead of gathering into a neat pile like...
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...essentials that increase blood platelets. Dengue viruses, mosquito-borne members of the Flaviviridae family, are the causative agents of dengue fever. Dengue is the most important emerging viral disease of humans that in recent decades has become a major international public health concern. There is a widespread of dengue cases in every corner of our country. Many people can’t afford to go to hospitals just to get medical assistance especially indigent families. Therefore because of the expensive disbursement in prestigious hospitals such as medicines needed to cure dengue, affected people die without being aided. Most people know about papayas but not many know about the amazing health benefits of Papaya Leaves. Papaya Leaves contain powerful healing compounds that are very important for great health and vitality... and for curing cancer and dengue fever. With the rising number of people catching dengue fever, the demand for papaya leaf juice has soared. The extract of raw papaya leaf helps boost platelets, also known as thrombocytes. Thus, they can formulate an alternative tea out of a simple leaf. Purpose of the Study The purpose of this study is to inform people that even they suffer from dengue fever, they don’t have to spend for their treatment and this study also inform people about the health benefits that they can get from simple leaves such as C. papaya leaves....
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...Leggett Dr. Marcellus Grace, R.Ph., Ph.D. HMLS 6150 October 21, 2013 Potential Exposure to Typhoid Fever on American Airlines Flight from Miami to New Orleans Introduction On October 15, 2012, an American Airlines flight from Miami to New Orleans was held for two hours on the tarmac at Louis Armstrong International Airport after a passenger suggested to the flight crew that she might have been exposed to typhoid fever. In my analysis and critique of this event, I will discuss the typhoid fever, its symptoms and effects, the response from both the Louis Armstrong International Airport emergency response personnel and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the “What if?” scenario if it actually was a legitimate typhoid fever diagnosis. Typhoid Fever Typhoid fever is a life-threatening illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi. In the United States, it is estimated that approximately 5,700 cases occur annually. Most cases (up to 75%) are acquired while traveling internationally. Typhoid fever is still common in the developing world, where it affects about 21.5 million persons each year. (CDC) You can get typhoid fever if you eat food or drink beverages that have been handled by a person who is shedding Salmonella Typhi or if sewage contaminated with Salmonella Typhi bacteria gets into the water you use for drinking or washing food. Therefore, typhoid fever is more common in areas of the world where handwashing is less frequent and water is likely to be contaminated...
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...Confined to the house | | It all began with a blister on my lower eyelid. I happened to rub it accidentally and it was painful.Soon after blisters appeared on my hands and neck. I suspected that I must be coming down with something. My mother examined me and immediately pronounced "chicken-pox". I had come down with chicken-pox.She took me to the doctor's to make sure. The doctor said that what I needed was rest. He gave me a two- week medical certificate and some pills to keep down the fever.Two weeks! I had to stay in the house for two weeks.Very quickly more blisters appeared all over my body. I even had some in the throat, which made swallowing difficult. To make matters worse, I began to get bouts of fever. At times when the fever was raging, I seemed to drift into a kind of limbo. Things became hazy and I was not sure whether I was dreaming or awake.I had a look in the mirror and saw that my face was grotesque. Red blisters covered the whole face. I wondered if I would be scarred permanently.So I stayed in the house and did nothing. It was not too unpleasant except for the fever and the extra care I had to take not to break the blisters accidentally. Nobody came to visit me. I was forbidden to visit others. It was customary to remain out of sight when one had chicken- pox. I had no choice but to comply.The days passed. Slowly the blisters dried into dark scabs which flaked off after a while, leaving behind little red scars. The flakes fell on the floor, on the bed...
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