Food-Borne Illness: Salmonella 1. What is the infectious agent that causes this infectious disease? For example, name of the bacteria, virus, or parasite. Salmonella is a bacterial infection of the intestines. It is also known as Salmonellosis. This bacterium is a shaped like a rod and takes on a reddish color. There are over 2,300 types of bacteria that make up the salmonella family. The bacterium that is the most common is Salmonella Enteritidis and Salmonella Typhimurium. Those types of
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aren’t exposed to their blood. Avoiding drug usage would help prevent the hepatitis C virus, especially illegal injection dugs. Handling and disposing of sharps properly is what commonly puts healthcare workers at risk for exposure. The risk of infection after a healthcare worker is exposed is 1.8%. Using proper safety precautions could prevent that 1.8% from getting HCV. In addition, safe sex is also a way to prevent HCV and other STDs. Using a condom during sexual intercourse could reduce the risk
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How c a n p eop le red uc e the c ha nc e of g etting infec ted ? Avoid Mosquito Bites Make sure windows and doors are ?bug tight.? Repair or replace screens. Stay indoors at dawn and dusk, if possible, when mosquitoes are most active. Wear a long sleeve shirt, long pants, and a hat when going into mosquito infested areas, such as wetlands or woods. Use mosquito repellent when necessary. Read the label and carefully follow the instructions. Take special care when using repellent on
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continue to get diseases that are vaccine preventable. Viral hepatitis, influenza, and tuberculosis (TB) remain among the leading causes of illness and death in the United States and account for substantial spending on the related consequences of infection.” Many health professionals have stated that during this past century a lot of the improvements to
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Travelers must avoid consumption of potentially contaminated food, drink and drinking-water. Oral rehydration salts should be carried to combat dehydration in case of severe diarrhea and seek proper information on the foods while practicing safe infection control. Vector-borne diseases on the other hand, account for 17% of the estimated global burden of all infectious diseases and the most deadly vector-borne disease is malaria (WHO, 2014). Malaria has caused an estimated 627 000 deaths in 2012.However
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Thomas, AlishaHSHA 23385 Public Health in the Middle Ages 1. Wars will always have an affect on the community in which the war is being fought between. It can be financially, socially, economically, etc. if we look back at Rome during the middle ages the war affected their aqueducts which is their water system, meaning the war had an affect on the hygiene up keep of the city, ultimately when poor hygiene is involved in any situation it usually has some correlation with poor health overall affecting
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Cystic echinococcosis represents an emerging illness found in humans and livestock that arises as a result of eating infective eggs of the cestode parasite Echinococcus granulosus – a small tapeworm of carnivorous animals. Also known as hydatid disease, this condition remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The ingestion of Echinococcus eggs results in the release of an early-stage larva (also known as the oncosphere) into the intestinal tract, with subsequent migration
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Throughout the centuries, there have been many scientific discoveries which have played an important role for the betterment of the world. Although there have also been some that have changed the world for the worse. Some are well-known and instantly come to mind when one is asked to name the most important scientific discoveries of all time, but there are other weighty discoveries that are more refined in nature - ones that are easily overlooked, regardless of the tremendous impact they may have
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to find that they even hijack software update services so that when machines are updated, instead of security patches and software updates, malware is downloaded and installed. New attack vectors are being developed for this “social” age like infection through social networking sites, attacks that are analogous with the past are still causing havoc in 2012. Traditional computer viruses are still secretly infecting files, causing computers to slow down and using our computers as hosts to infect
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Doctors don’t know exactly what causes eczema. They believe that eczema is caused by a combination of factors like: Genetics, abnormal function of the immune system, environment, activities that may cause skin to be more sensitive and defects in the skin barrier that allow moisture out and germs in. Eczema is not contagious, you can’t catch it by coming in contact with someone who has it. A major risk factor is having relatives who have had eczema, asthma and seasonal allergies. Doctors don’t know
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