In this article review Alan Blinder discusses an outbreak of tuberculosis in rural Alabama. In a small town about 80 miles west of Montgomery, Marion, Alabama there has been a case of tuberculosis so severe that an incidence rate of about 100 times greater than the state’s and worse than in many developing countries. City officials and medical experts believe that the outbreak could be traced back to generations of very limited health care, poverty and mistrust. Problems that Blinder states are common
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The varicella-zoster virus (VZV), a DNA virus that causes chickenpox, is one of eight herpesviruses that can infect humans (Arvin 2008). Chickenpox is a contagious disease with symptoms of itchy red rashes (which can lead to skin infections) fatigue, and a fever (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011). VZV causes chickenpox by entering into the respiratory tract and multiplying in the lungs and in regional lymph nodes. After the primary infection of the chickenpox, the virus goes dormant
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We are living in a sea of germs. They are in the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink and swim in. Many of the viruses are no longer bothering humans because humans have developed more advanced immune system to counter the teeming viruses that exist in the world. However, some brute viruses such as Variola Virus, causes smallpox, once was a threatening virus to the world. The virus was spread through the air and the smallpox infection resulted people in high fever, serve aches
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On May 14, 1796 Edward Jenner tested his vaccine. Edward Jenner was known as the “Father of Immunology” due to his discovery of the smallpox vaccine. Edward Anthony Jenner was an english scientist(www.famousscientist.org). Jenner was able to use his observation skills, notice a small detail and create a vaccine for a disease that killed almost 300 million people. Therefore, Edward Jenner is remembered to save more lives than any other medical doctors. Edward Jenner was born to Stephen Jenner and
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restlessness, but on the day following he was perfectly well” (James Phipps). Explaining how James was progressing over the next couple of days. After about six weeks, James was injected with smallpox and there were no indication of James becoming ill (Vaccination). Edwards ran this test on twenty-three other patients before publishing his findings, including his son
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In 1796, Edward Jenner created the 1st vaccine by injecting material from a cowpox virus into an 8-year-old, hoping that it would keep him from getting the measles, and this vaccine was successful. You might have heard of a vaccine, but what does it do exactly? A vaccine is a small dose of a killed microbe injected in the body sent to strengthen the immune system of that particular disease for the future. Many people have different opinions on whether or not vaccines are beneficial. They are, in
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with a variola major virus which is more deadly than the variola minor virus. There were many attempts at vaccination, once incident where they would extract the puss from one victim, and insert into a healthy person for them to become immune. However, all this would do is spread the disease further. Then Edward Jenner tested his theory of injecting cow pox into a volunteer. This vaccination proved to be effective. In 1948, with the creation of the World Health Organization people believed it was
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pros to the break-though are discussed, but one of the main positives is the fact that society will start understanding how addiction is a disease that changes the way the brain functions. Although, there are a few limitations to how far these vaccinations can help users with their addiction such as; users not being able to get the high they crave, treatment may take too long for users to handle and many
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One scientific discovery that changed the field of microbiology, sanitation, and disease prevention forever was Carlos Juan Finlay’s discovery that the tropical disease yellow fever was spread by mosquitoes, especially the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Finlay was born in Camagüey, Cuba on December 3, 1833. He had a diverse education, studying in both France and America. During his time, yellow fever was ravaging and decimating the population of tropical areas, including his home country of Cuba. It is
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I Swear You Don’t Have Ebola---Just Small Pox Smallpox is a disease that was reportedly found in humans around ten thousand years ago. Smallpox is said to be one of the most catastrophic and deadly diseases to ever attack humanity because of its fatal and infectious symptoms. The chance of death of a patient with Smallpox was up to 30% in the past. A virus similar to smallpox has been found in animals, leading experts to believe that the disease was passed from humans to animals. Once this similar
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