Europe’s journal on infectious disease epidemiolog y, prevention and control Special edition: Chikungunya and Zika virus October 2014 Featuring • Spread of chikungunya from the Caribbean to mainland Central and South America: a greater risk of spillover in Europe? • Aspects of Zika virus transmission • Cases of chikungunya virus infection in travellers returning to Spain from Haiti or Dominican Republic, April-June 2014 www.eurosurveillance.org Editorial team Editorial advisors
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Societies Control of communicable diseases 7 This measles 'jab' will help prevent this child from the consequences of measles such as pneumonia, malnutrition, blindness and brain disease. Photo:Marko Kokic,Canadian Red Cross Control of communicable diseases in emergencies Description This chapter gives an overview of common and emerging communicable disease threats among displaced populations because of natural and human-made disasters. General and disease-specific strategies for monitoring
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• Diseases of affluence Less strenuous physical exercise, often through increased use of a car Easy accessibility in society to large amounts of low-cost food (relative to the much-lower caloric food availability in a subsistence economy) More food generally, with much less physical exertion expended to obtain a moderate amount of food More high fat and high sugar foods in the diet are common in the affluent developed economies of the late-twentieth century More foods which are processed, cooked
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Alzheimer's disease (AD), also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease, is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death. It was first described by German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer in 1906 and was named after him.[1] Most often, AD is diagnosed in people over 65 years of age,[2] although the less-prevalentearly-onset Alzheimer's can occur much earlier. In 2006, there were 26.6 million sufferers
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A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism. It is often construed to be a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs.[1] It may be caused by external factors, such as infectious disease, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as autoimmune diseases. In humans, "disease" is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems, or death to the person afflicted, or similar problems for those
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Respiratory Disease Paper There are various types of respiratory diseases that are currently prevalent in the United States. These diseases not only affect, but also claim the lives of many people annually. Asthma, Lung Disease, COPD, and Pneumonia are a few of the most common respiratory disease that are prevalent in our country. I chose to focus on Asthma because it is a controversial issue due to being both extremely common as well as it not having a cure. This disease has not only made a significant
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Eastern Equine Encephalitis An Overview of the Disease Kelly Cammiso Public Health 101 Professor Brown May 10, 2013 Abstract In recent years, Eastern Equine Encephalitis has made national headlines in the media. Although it is rare, the disease has devastating effects, especially the encephalitic form of the disease. The purpose of this literature is to provide an overview of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus. History, geographical data, epidemiology, etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
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main problem with bilharzia is that there is no way to properly prevent it, over the last 3 decades many governments have tried administrating mass medication to try and minimize the distribution and spreading of this disease but one person in an area who still remains with the disease can infect a whole water source, therefore infecting a whole community. Another problem with mass medication is that, although the medicine is cheap, when funding for medication dries up, the bilharzia outbreak starts
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Dementia. After witnessing, first hand, the effects of this debilitating disease, I became interested in learning more about it. Lewy body dementia, what is this? According to the Mayo Clinic, Lewy body dementia consists of "protein deposits that develop in nerve cells in the brain regions that involves thinking, memory and movement (motor control)." “It is the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer’s disease dementia.” The patient we assisted was extremely unsteady and was placed
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3.1 in the stands next to you. You tell him that you are a paramedic and will walk him to your car where you have your medical equipment. He reports that he has had a headache off and on since he had a tooth extracted four days ago. This evening he is feeling very weak. His blood pressure is normal. When you listen to his heart you 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
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