...Lyme disease is caused by a bacteria known as borrelia burgdorferi and is one of the most common vector-born diseases. It is commonly transmitted through bites from infected black legged ticks. Some of the more common symptoms are fever, headache, fatigue and a rash that almost everyone who gets Lyme disease has called erythema migrans. Lyme disease is diagnosed through looking at the symptoms as well as possible exposure to infected ticks and if it goes untreated it can often spread to the heart and the nervous system as well as through your joints. It contains three stages, the first being a rash at the site of the bite, the second being cardiac and neurologic involvement, and the third being arthritis in large and important joints such as...
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...Introduction Lyme disease is a bacterial disease that is caused by the bite of a tick, these ticks carry the spiral shaped bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi. A human will contract this disease if they are bitten by an eight-legged tick that is in the middle stage of its life, called nymphs. If the tick is attached to the body for 36 hours than it can transfer the Borrelia burgdorferi to the person which it is attached to. Which is why it is important to check for ticks if you have been in an wooded area. Lyme disease has varying symptoms and “It can affect any organ of the body, including the brain and nervous system, muscles and joints, and the heart” (Lyme Disease.org). Lyme disease has three different stages of the disease that each have their own symptoms involved with the stage. It can be hard to diagnosis this disease based off the fact that is has many symptoms like other many diseases or other health problems so patients are frequently misdiagnosed. Lyme disease may not get diagnosed on time before it becomes chronic Lyme disease which is much harder and can take much longer to treat. Without diagnosis and proper treatment, the bacteria will continue to move throughout the body and will start to affect many other organs causing way worse effects than if they...
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...Lyme’s Disease Lyme disease is a bacterial disease caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. The organism is a rod-like spirochete. Spirochetes are a group of bacteria unique in the way they move about the organism. This group of bacteria moves in a spiral motion. There are three stages in the clinical signs for Lyme’s Disease. Primary signs will begin after the first or second day of feeding on the animal and tend to develop in 90% of cases. Erythema will develop which is often accompanied by a mild to moderate fever. Generalized lymphadenopathy develops as well which in some cases may lead to the animal displaying signs of lameness. Secondary signs will develop in about 10% of cases. These signs include glomerulonephritis which results in a protein losing nephropathy and is usually fatal. The extremely rare third stage of Lyme disease include attacks...
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...and human being infected with lyme disease, associated with the commonly known deer tick or its scientific name, Ixodes scapularis. This organism carries a bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, commonly known as lyme disease. Lyme disease is a result of a deer tick bite. The deer tick feeds on blood. Therefore, the tick inserts its head and punctures the skin giving it an access way to blood. It can take 24-48 hours for a tick to actual transmit Lyme disease into the human body. According...
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...Lyme disease, like some ailments, affect humans and animals, this means humans and animals can be influenced by it. Any animal that can be bitten by a tick can receive Lyme disease, this includes horses, cats, dogs, and more. Similar to a large percentage of diseases Lyme disease is affected by the biodiversity of the area and the biosphere. But how does the amount of biodiversity affect the rate of Lyme disease? Biodiversity improves the overall health of an ecosystem. Lyme disease is an illness caused by the spiral shaped bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi and it is transmitted to humans by the bite of a tick. Usually a blacklegged tick or a deer tick, blacklegged on the west coast and Deer ticks on the east coast. Lyme disease can infect all organs in your body and the symptoms of Lyme disease are similar to the symptoms of other common illnesses. Because of this it is difficult to correctly identify Lyme disease therefore the estimates of people with Lyme disease are not entirely correct. However, thanks to the research of scientists we are becoming excellent at identifying it. Let me bring you back to 1975, when the first case of Lyme disease was discovered. Back then, there were more forests and biodiversity was higher,...
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...Lyme disease is a bacterial disease. It was first seen in 1975 when there was an unknown outbreak of arthritis near Old Lyme, Connecticut, giving it the name Lyme disease. Since 1975 the number of cases have greatly increased. It impacts approximately 25,000 US residents every year. It is usually found in the northeastern United States, northern California, and north central states, like Minnesota and Wisconsin. There are however, cases in every state and various countries around the world. It is interesting that this disease mostly impacts the United States. Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted through the bite of an infected deer tick. They cannot fly or jump and thus often attach in the grass or weeds. When the tick finds a feeding spot, it grasps the skin and cuts into the surface. The tick then inserts its feeding tube. The feeding tube can have barbs, which help keep the tick in place. The tick must usually be attached for 36 to 48 hours or more before the Lyme disease bacterium can be transmitted. There is no evidence showing Lymes disease can transmit through...
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...Microbiology 3 September 2017 Lyme Disease Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in the United States. A lot of people think that Lyme disease is caused by a virus. It is spread to humans mainly through tick bites, but some species of flies, fleas and mosquitoes can transmit it as well (Kurnatowski). Blacklegged ticks that are infected with a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorderi are the culprits of the spread of Lyme disease. According to the CDC, ticks usually must be attached for 36 to 48 hours to successfully transmit the disease. Since most people who contract Lyme disease are infected by nymphs, immature ticks, it’s difficult to discover the tick. If you do discover a tick, removing it correctly is vital. Tweezers can be used to pinch the tick as closely to the skin as possible. Next, you should pull upward. If you twist or jerk when removing the tick, you could leave the head of the tick...
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...Personal Impact Paper The personal impact that chronic disease has on patients, is extremely devastating. "Mention of chronic Lyme disease raises temperatures, not only among patients, but also among the experts who are trying to untangle exactly what chronic Lyme disease is" (Rowe, 2000 pg1). With a chronic disease, such as Lyme disease LD patients are faced with many challenges. Some that will be outlined in this paper. Which are social, financial and personal effects that this disease can have on a person. As well as what a patient has to go through when learning about their disease and living through the experience. Lastly, this paper will touch on the motivators that can be used when maintaining a positive outlook on the patient's life. When discussing what is Lyme disease many thoughts come to head because Lyme's disease is a complex yet very silent disease. This disease is known as "The great Imitator" (Lymedisease.org 2013) this is because the symptoms that arise are like other well known diseases. Some examples of these diseases are; Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, Depression and Rheumatoid Arthritis (Lymedisease.org 2013). By the time that Lyme's disease is diagnosis the symptoms and the disease process have become chronic. When someone gets infected this disease with the Lyme spirochetes, which is a poppy like size tick (Lymedisease.org 2013). The most common forms of testing are the Elisa and the Western Blot. These test are...
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...Culture and Disease HCS/245 March 22, 2012 Michael Coker Culture and Disease Winter has ended and spring is here, and it has everyone running to enjoy the warm air and to embrace the outdoors of the hot summer sun rays. However, there is something lurking within the bushes and in the back yard which, they cannot wait for their next victims to attack. There is a small insect that crawls and is ready to take over Mother Nature because of the warm environment. This type of ticks can create a disease called Lyme disease. Within this paper, information will be pertaining to the culture and disease within a particular populated area of the knowledge of describing the disease, factors that make this particular population vulnerable, environmental factors, modes for disease transmission, methods are used to control the spread of alternative methods, role of social influences and benefits and values of treatment, and identify community health promotion and wellness strategies to help prevent the disease. According to Webster’s New World Medical Dictionary (2003) Lyme disease is an inflammatory disease caused by the bacterium Bornelia Burgdorferi that is transmitted to human by the deer tick. An infected tick can transmit the spirochete to humans and animal it bites. The first sign of Lyme disease is a red, circular, expanding rash usually radiating from the tick bite. After the Burgdorferi has entered the bloodstream, it can infect and inflame many types of tissues...
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...surgeon and medical researcher, published a paper claiming that the MMR vaccine could cause autism and bowel disease, based on a study of twelve young children. The vaccine was developed in the 1960’s and protects against Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (German Measles). Although his claims have been proven false, the supposed link between MMR vaccine (or, in some cases, vaccines in general) and autism is still believed by many parents, and is commonly used as an anti-vaccination argument. Vaccines have also been linked to ADHD, severe allergies, and asthma, with the claim that vaccination increases the risk of a child developing...
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...Argument Paper The use of technology to further develop medicine has become an increasingly bigger idea in labs. In the past year, President Obama spent $215 million to develop a research initiative that sequence the DNA of about a million volunteers. The process of genome sequencing is complex, but to put it in simpler terms it’s determining the precise number of nucleotides inside of a DNA molecule. Successful DNA sequencing has also lead to a huge increase in biological/medical research and discovery, which is why Obama has put so much money into researching it. Because of all these great promises of mass genome sequencing, there has also been much hype that comes along with it. which leads to the question, is it safe? Another question often brought up in the subject of genome sequencing is how well the laboratories are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Some argue that the...
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...How Misdiagnosis Can Impact Lives Tamala L. Tibbs Texas Tech University Health Sciences For this assignment I chose to learn more about the sub topic “Misdiagnosis” from Chapter 10 titled Physicians Ethical and Legal Issues. This chapter explores how to understand how ethics and law impact physicians everyday professional lives. There are many misdiagnosed patients more and more every year. In this paper I will go over the background of Misdiagnosis and how it affects the patient, the legal mindset of the ever growing issue, and pick apart an actual case that was misdiagnosed and the outcome that came from it. Misdiagnosis is a medical error that is a preventable adverse effect of care. This usually includes an...
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...Instrucciones: Informe de caso en salud ambiental (20%) El propósito de este criterio de evaluación es brindarle a los estudiantes la oportunidad de poner en práctica conceptos y teorías de salud pública en el análisis de un estudio de caso en salud ambiental en una comunidad. El profesor dividirá la matrícula de la clase en grupos de aproximadamente el mismo tamaño (según las circunstancias lo permitan). A cada grupo se le asignará un caso en particular y distinto a los demás. Cada grupo trabajará su asignación durante el trimestre y al final del mismo entregará un informe escrito en la fecha que se asigne. Dicho informe tendrá un peso de 20% de la nota del curso. Criterios para la evaluación del informe escrito: El informe escrito tendrá la siguiente estructura: página de título, tabla de contenido, resumen, introducción, revisión de literatura, resultados y análisis, conclusiones, recomendaciones y lista de referencias. El proyecto debe presentarse de manera impresa en papel blanco de buena calidad (tamaño carta, 8.5 x 11) y encuadernado adecuadamente. El texto debe estar escrito a doble espacio en letra Arial de 12 puntos. La lista de referencias y las citas en el texto deben estar escritas siguiendo el formato APA. El informe será evaluado a base de los siguientes criterios: presentación; uso adecuado del lenguaje escrito; cantidad, calidad y actualidad de la información; calidad de las tablas, gráficas e ilustraciones; profundidad y calidad del análisis y de las...
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...Epidemiology Paper Epidemiology has become the method of choice for public health research. The patterns and trends and cause and effects of health affecting phenomena identified by epidemiology are instrumental in predicting risk factors e.g.; development of treatment strategies to prevent or contain diseases. Epidemiology estimates have changed over time related to changes in the definition and diagnosis of diseases. Epidemiology is practiced as a broad scientific discipline that addresses occurrences of diseases and distribution of health status of populations. Integration of casual concepts at the clinical, social and environmental levels will allow faculty to work to maintain an intellectual environment that will facilitate the integration of biological, social and, analytical approaches of epidemiology. This type of environment allows faculty and students to develop the knowledge to fully appreciate the complexities of biosocial system to understand, modify, and use this information to maximum potential. The focus of this paper will be on immigrant/migrants as a vulnerable population with emphasis on infectious disease a major health concern. The paper will define epidemiology and identify steps and methods of the type of epidemiology and examines relationships of illnesses and education related to infectious diseases. Epidemiology defined Stanhope & Lancaster (2008) defines epidemiology as “the study of the distribution and determination of health- related states...
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...Charlinne Rivera Professor Clark ENC 1101 Research Paper 7 August 2012 Work Count: 1,227 The Unexposed Dangers of Blood Transfusions Blood is not considered the “fluid of life” without valid reason. This essential liquid is circulated throughout the human body within veins, capillaries and arteries to our heart, where it is cleaned from contaminants and waste products, then replenished with nutrients and oxygen needed to maintain life. That is the way the human body system nourishes its cells. Blood provides the necessary nutrients to our cells to keep them alive. When this process is compromised by chronic blood loss, trauma, clotting abnormalities (hemophilia, anemia, etc.), the most common treatment is the use of blood transfusions. How wise would it be to consider all of the risk factors involved with blood transfusions before making a decision to utilize one? “There is increasing evidence that blood transfusions are dangerous and often unnecessary” (Hupston, “Quality Blood Transfusion Alternatives” 1). According to the article “Blood Transfusions- Risks”, published by the Mayo Foundation Medical Education and Research (MFMER), several risks are associated with blood transfusions. Included are the possibilities of getting an allergic reaction, even when the two blood types are compatible. Such reaction can cause from hives and itching to greater problems pertaining to breathing problems and blood pressure, tachycardia, vomiting, anxiety and fever. If a reaction of...
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