(Cessu) has only recorded 1,623 cases from January to November 2011 compared to 2,871 cases in the same period last 2010, or 43.46 percent lower. Dengue fever also known as breakbone fever, is an infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Dengue viruses are mosquitos-borne viruses which exist in nature as four separate serotypes. Dengue fever is a disease caused by a family of viruses that are transmitted by mosquitoes. The most efficient vector is the female Aedes aegypti. This mosquito
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Website Review Find national, state, and local governmental health agency websites that address the issue you selected in your Week One assignment. Follow the example to document your findings in the table. Health issue: __West Nile Virus_ Website Website Information Type Type of Surveillance: survey, self report, statistics, case report, and so forth Data changes over time: Has the incidence increased or decreased? Identify two interventions that affect the issue. Example: http://www.cdc
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note that he has a pronounced murmur. He reports having had rheumatic fever 15 years ago. You examine his fingernails and find one that has tiny petechial hemorrhages under it. 1. Name the most likely causative agent of this man's signs and symptoms. 2. Name the most likely infection this man has. 3. What type of culture would a physician most likely order, and why? 4. What is the treatment? 5. What is rheumatic fever? What causes it. Can it be prevented? 1) Streptococcus viridans
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Toxicity tests of different plant crude extract on Mosquito Larvae by Martinez, Jose Djairus Mari C. Oclarit, Jaymee Navora, Jane Andrea Baquiran, Sushmica Cruz, Krystian Wilson Lee A special problem submitted to Ma’am Teodora Ballancod University of the Philippines Baguio in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Botany 109: Plant Taxonomy Department of Biology October 2011 Contents Abstract………………………………………………………………………… 3 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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are typically caused by genetic disorder or fatal diseases. This condition may result from thromboembolic or hemorrhagic complications caused by heparin as well as from various diseases states such as chronic liver disease and dengue hemorrhagic fever. In most rural areas a health care institution is often inaccessible and most patients cannot afford high cost medication. Henceforth, herbal medicines are often used as an alternative treatment. Inadequacy of providing supportive treatment to correct
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Larvicidal Potency of Marigold (Tagetes erecta) Stem and Leaf Extract against Mosquito Larvae Table of Contents Page Title Page 1 Approval Sheet 2 Acknowledgment 3 Table of Contents 4 List of Tables 5 Abstract 6 Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTINGS
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Mosquito-Borne Viral Infection, ‘Dengue.' Name Institution Tutor Course Introduction Dengue fever is considered as the fastest emerging viral infection which is spread by the female mosquito “Aedes aegypti.” ( Fever,2011). The disease has caused major health effects in many tropical and sub-tropical countries in Asia, Western Pacific and Central and South America ( Fever,2011).The disease causes flu-like illness which develops into serious complication which is called dengue haemorrhagic ( DHF)
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affected areas. There was not a locally transmitted case in the United States. A total of 202 cases were reported from U.S. territories. All those cases were locally transmitted in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgen Islands. The most common symptoms are fever and joint paint, but can also include headaches, muscle pain, joint swelling or rash. There are not specific treatments for chikungunya, and is treated symptomatically,
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This was case of Mary Mallon. To her, quarantine meant a life of isolation and imprisonment for a disease that she was asymptomatic for. As a "healthy carrier", Mary was considered by the health officials in Manhattan to be too dangerous to be allowed to continue having exposure to society even though she was only infectious when she was cooking. She was presented to the public as a dirty immigrant from Ireland that was heavy in stature, ugly in appearance, and someone who carried and spread the
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Mary Mallon was born in Ireland in 1869 and relocated to the United States in 1884. Mary was the first case in the United States that was blamed for being an asymptomatic carrier of a pathogen that connected to the typhoid fever. Hence why she received the name Typhoid Mary. When Mary arrive in America at 15 years old there weren’t many good paying jobs other then being a cook which is exactly what she pursued doing. Mary began working as a personal cook for Charles Henry Warren who was a very wealthy
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