II 12/10/13 Malaria VS. The Black Plague In the fourteenth century‚ death and devastation swept from Asia to Europe in the form of the Black Plague‚ killing nearly one third of the world’s population. The Black Plague was one of the most horrid pandemics in history. Arguably‚ other modern day diseases such as Malaria‚ have‚ and continue to impact the world in many ways. While the medical responses‚ based off knowledge and economic results differ from the Black Death to Malaria‚ social classing
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DENGUE Dengue‚ which is an emerging public health problem worldwide‚ is a vector born disease‚ causing a severe influenza like illness in humans. The incidence of the disease is on the rise due to many factors such as climate change‚ urbanization‚ and uncontrolled population growth etc. The changing patterns of climate have provided a favorable environment for vectors to feed and breed. Urbanization and uncontrolled population growth in urban and peri–urban areas have also favored the breeding
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Page 1 of 6 Life Cycle of Malaria Page 2 of 6 Malaria is an ancient disease transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito that predates recorded history. Historically it was common in the swampy areas around Rome‚ and was believed that the tainted air in those locations made people very sick‚ the disease was therefore named malaria for the Latin root words bad air. Malaria is caused by small parasitic protozoa of the genus Plasmodium which infects both humans and mosquitoes in a cyclical process.
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Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is a serious‚ life threatening disease that is extremely prevalent throughout south East Asia. DHF has caused widespread epidemics and has claimed many lives. This paper will focus on educating individuals in the medical profession and patients that reside in the regions of Thailand‚ Laos‚ and Vietnam about this disease. DHF is a viral infection spread by the bite of mosquitoes‚ more specifically the female Aedes Mosquito (2). DHF is a virus that belongs to
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THE STUDY ABOUT DENGUE IN THE PHILIPPINES A Term Paper Presented to Prof. Ma. Alona L. Manzon Department of English OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for Basic Communication Skills 2 Second Semester 2014-2015 By: Valdez‚ Mylene L. Penoliar‚ Jecylene Q. BSN 1Y2-1 Chapter 1 Introduction Dengue also known as break bone fever is a mosquito to borne tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. It is an infectious disease caused viruses which are transmitted
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INTRODUCTION Dengue Fever is caused by one of the four closely related‚ but antigenically distinct‚ virus serotypes Dengue type 1‚ Dengue type 2‚ Dengue type 3‚ and Dengue type 4 of the genus Flavivirus and Chikungunya virus. Infection with one of these serotype provides immunity to only that serotype of life‚ to a person living in a Dengue-endemic area can have more than one Dengue infection during their lifetime. Dengue fever through the four different Dengue serotypes are maintained in the
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Dengue Fever Makes Inroads into the U.S. The mosquito-borne infection is cropping up in Florida‚ but mysteriously not in similar regions in the nation By Dina Fine Maron Most Americans lose little sleep over dengue fever. The mosquito-borne infection is a leading killer in the tropics and subtropics‚ but it’s been a long-held belief that ubiquitous air-conditioning‚ few open windows and limited time outdoors protects us from dengue. And in fact‚ for the past century most U.S. cases (except
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The term `Malaria ’ originates from Medieval Italian Mala aria which mean “bad air”; and the disease was formerly called Ague or Marsh fever due to its association with swamps and marshland‚ (Watkins‚ 2001). Scientific studies on Malaria made their first significant advance in 1880‚ when Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran a French army doctor working in the military hospital of Constantine in Algeria observed malaria plasmodium parasites inside the red blood cell of people suffering from Malaria. Documentation
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R&D THRUSTS ON DENGUE Department of Science and Technology PHILIPPINE COUNCIL FOR HEALTH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Dengue R&D Program DENGUE COMMUNITY VECTOR CONTROL and MANAGEMENT HOST DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT Addresses the disease determinant factors in the epidemiologic cycle of dengue causation VECTOR CONTROL and MANAGEMENT Vector Control_________________ include targeting the mosquito vector/s in the habitats of its larval and adult stages in households and
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XI. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY Medical Diagnosis T/C Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever/ Pleural Effusion‚ T/C Liver Pathology Definition Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever - is a severe‚ potentially deadly infection spread by certain species of mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti). Pleural Effusion - is excess fluid that accumulates in the pleural cavity‚ the fluid-filled space that surrounds the lungs. Excessive amounts of such fluid can impair breathing by limiting the expansion of the lungs during inhalation. Liver
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