lives which increases the ability to being exposed to them like within on water or used on our food. Even though not all hazardous materials are toxins some can be flammable or irritate without actually killing organisms. Spooner, A.M.(2012). Disease causing agents would be toxins, that when you are exposed to over a certain amount of time can affect your overall health. One of these agents would be Perfluorooctanoic sulfonate which is found in cooking pans, used in the creation of Teflon. Studies
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Tuberculosis and Cancer Over the times people made various comments about the secretive diseases we know as tuberculosis and cancer. These were the kind of diseases have very in common and at the same time they are very different. People mostly comment on these diseases not as what they are but using them as metaphors on their selves or loved ones. Tuberculosis used as the sneaky thief that steal the person’s life years ago. After sometime, as in present, cancer
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In the article clinical epidemipology of Alzheimer’s disease the author is trying to assess the sex and gender differences observed in the incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment. The author is also trying to research on the protective factors and gender-specific risk of Alzheimer disease. Both sex and gender play crucial roles in the development and progression of the Alzheimer disease. Researchers have a required to understand both sex and gender precise risk
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I honestly believe that I shouldn't be alive. It was exactly 2 years ago. It was the year 3022. The world was being taken over by a deadly virus. It was called the Z virus. There are three stages of the virus. First one is denying you have the virus. The second is getting the symptoms, and the third is the virus takes over. It started by by a mutation in flu virus was spread by any form of contact between two humans. One human had to have the virus. The symptoms are food cravings, discolored skin
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Kalemba ITT-Technical Institute Elephantiasis is the abnormal enlargement of any part of the body. The most common is the lower limbs and genital area. According to the health Ministry, elephantiasis is one of the oldest and most paralyzing diseases in the world. It is the second biggest cause of disability after mental disorders. There are two main types of elephantiasis. These two are lymphatic filariasis and non- filarial. Lymphatic filariasis is the most common form. It is caused by the
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Equation 1: dS/dt= 〖- βIS〗^( 3) dS/dt is representative of the instantaneous rate of change for the number of people susceptible to the disease over time, a negative number as susceptible individuals will become infected. Firstly, dS/dt must decrease proportionally to I because individuals that are infected are no longer susceptible to the disease; to maintain a relative rate of change for infected and susceptible individuals, the value for I must also decrease.3 The only way people can leave
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Diseases on the Oregon Trail “You have died of cholera.” Children growing up while playing the Oregon Trail video game are familiar with these words. The Oregon Trail was extremely dangerous, and difficult to survive. Although you have probably heard of the diseases travelers faced on the famous trail, do you really know what they are, their effects, and how doctors ‘treated’ them? Travelers expanding westward not only had to avoid harsh weather, injury, and Native American attacks, but they also
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Diseases and illnesses are everywhere. No one can be safe from an infectious disease; however, there is such a fear of those with an infectious disease. People want those with an infectious disease to stay far away from their family as possible, without realizing they are seeking for help. Everyone in the United States is born from an immigrant, if not, is an immigrant, yet for years, immigrants have been stigmatized to cause infectious diseases. They are feared and looked down upon for carrying
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go to the doctor’s office for treatment. However, if a child gets sick in a poor country, there are no preventative measures because it is difficult to provide the proper treatment needed. For instance, tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious bacterial disease that can be spread through the air. Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is when the bacteria is resistant to two or more of anti-TB medications. MDR-TB is caused by incorrect prescription, developing TB again, missing a dose, etc. In order
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affects the skin, peripheral nerves in the hands and feet, upper respiratory tract, and mucous membranes of the nose, throat, and eyes” (Cherath 2966). I chose this topic because I am a Christian and I heard about this disease in the Bible. I thought it sounded like a dreadful disease that I wanted to learn more about. I had no knowledge of what it really was so I wanted to learn more. “It disables young and old from South America right across to South-East Asia, with at least a quarter of a million
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