AIDS is the modern leprosy, and like leprosy in the past, we have a communicable disease the cure of which is unknown. Lepers were shunned by their communities, although in many respects they received quite a bit of sympathy from others as well. While HIV carriers do not need to put up with the overt shaming due to the physical marring that comes with a disease like leprosy, they still face the same issues of it being communicable and incurable, and thus are justifiably quarantined for similar reasons
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Tuberculosis _ Epidemiology and Nursing Research. November14, 2013 Tuberculosis _Epidemiology and Nursing Research. Communicable diseases occurs in every country regardless of urban, rural, or with socio economical diversities. In order to help in prevention and control of communicable diseases, locally, nationally and globally, nurses who are working with the public health system , must have basic understanding of epidemiology, microbiology, treatments
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promoting and protecting public health Intro Communicable diseases are diseases that can be spread and it can be passed from one person to another through communication, food and through contaminated water. When a person has the fluby them covering their mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing, can minimise the rate of spreading the diseases. The communicable disease I have chosen to explain is STD which stands for ‘Sexually Transmitted Disease’. STD is an infection that happens through sexual
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smoking is a dangerous bad habit.it contains nicotine.it causes different diseases and damages our brain and lungs.most of the people are addicted it by someone ,specially our teenagers are affect by their friends.every year the number of people are death for this reason and sometimes they are avoided their family,which really shock-able. smoking has a lot of disadvantage .it causes different diseases such as cancer of different part of the body and brain stoke which makes para lashed our body
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because it will benefits all people involved. In the next paragraphs, I will talk about what are the advantages about assisted suicide. First, assisted suicide can release the pain of the dying patient who suffers terribly from the incurable disease. The most well-known method of assisted suicide is Euthanasia. The word “Euthanasia” comes from Greek words, means dying with happiness. In China, Euthanasia means, when the incurable patient nearly dying, suffering with extremely pain for both spiritual
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hope and unwilling to live in this state she has decided to end her life with an overdose of her prescription medication. Marit choose to die with dignity, right which people should have when they figure enough is enough. Exhausted by deadly disease she finds that daily tasks, once done without any effort, are becoming more and more difficult. She complains to her husband that having no energy is the most terrible part of her condition. She is no longer able “to get up and walk around”. Her energy
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Parsons HCA/210 September 10, 2012 Cathy Wilburn Abstract In this paper, I will inform you of the ways that Reptile blood has been tested in hopes of finding cures for different diseases. There are several people testing the reptilian blood in experiments to help find a cure for a number of diseases. The thought of using a reptile’s blood to cure someone is a strange one. However, it was brought to the attention of Dr. Mark Merchant, of McNeese State University, that crocodiles,
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Aase Syndrome is a rare genetic disease that causes anemia and poor development of bone marrow. There’s less than two dozen cases reported. One main trait that stands out from others to diagnose this disease is the triphalangeal thumb. Carriers of Aase syndrome are diagnosed during their baby years. Doctors perform a blood transfusion the first year of life, and continue treatment by using steroids. There’s another anemia disease called Blackfan-Diamond syndrome that has similar symptoms such as
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way that they handled he Tuskegee Syphilis. I read in the chapter, that Human experimentation is considered necessary for medical progress. Both animal testing and human testing have been used successfully to further medical knowledge and conquer disease. Medical research almost always carries with it some degree in risk. Human beings cannot be used for testing purposes unless they consent to participate. Obtaining informed consent is particularly important in nontherapeutic research, or research
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took 2 pills after meals 3 times a day. D - So everything should have been all right then. You told me you had no serious diseases and allergies. What's wrong then? P - Just a few days ago I had thyroid enlargement (увеличение щитовидной железы) but I went on taking hat drug. D - As far as this drug is concerned, it mustn't be taken if a person has thyroid disease. So using that drug caused terrible side effects. P - Oh, I'd better read all cautions and warnings concerning any drug. Could
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