Preventing HIV and Other Blood Borne Diseases Brennan Welty Kaplan University Outline Thesis: Ending the spread of HIV and blood borne diseases will be hard‚ but if everyone knows the right steps to prevent it‚ these diseases can be stopped. I. Introduction II. 1st body paragraph III. 2nd body paragraph IV. 3rd body paragraph V. Conclusion I. Introduction a. Explain what HIV and Blood borne diseases are b. How these diseases relate to the medical field c. Talk about how to prevent
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1. What is the infectious agent (pathogen) that causes this infectious disease? For example the name of the bacteria‚ virus‚ or parasite. Giardia is protozoan and also flagellated. Flagellated means using appendages in a whip-like movement to propel. Giardia attaches to the host through the lining of the upper intestines. Once it attaches itself‚ it begins to feed and reproduce causing the giardiasis to commence. Giardia reproduces by dividing itself‚ which defines it as a trophozoite. This process
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Hepatitis A · Giardia or amoeba parasites Students write a 75-150 word response to each of the following questions: · What is the infectious agent (pathogen) that causes this infectious disease? For example‚ the name of the bacteria‚ virus‚ or parasite. Hint: identify the pathogen then state if it is a bacteria‚ virus or parasite. Hepatitis A is an infectious agent. Hepatitis A is also a liver disease. Hepatitis means inflammation of the liver. Inflammation can be very painful. It becomes red
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1. What is the infectious agent (pathogen) that causes this infectious disease? Hepatitis A is cause by the Hepatitis A virus. The Hepatitis A virus causes an inflammation of the liver. 2. How is the infectious agent transmitted through food or water? The Hepatitis A virus is found most commonly in the stools and blood of an infected person about 15 to 45 days before symptoms occur and during the first week of illness. Hepatitis A is transmitted through eating or drinking water that has been
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Jane Ventura Dr. John Schillinger HSCI 132 November 10‚ 2012 Climate Change and Food Borne Illness Climate has always played a significant role in placing food on the tables of millions of families. It seems that we have regressed judging from the way that our ancestors have lived their lives to the way that we have become dependent on mass production of food. We have managed to sabotage our health as well as that of the Earth’s. The changes in weather patterns have gradually impacted agriculture
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Kerala‚ coastal Karnataka and Maharashtra. The jackfruit tree is well suited to tropical lowlands‚ and its fruit is the largest tree-borne fruit‚[7] reaching as much as 80 pounds (36 kg) in weight and up to 36 inches (90 cm) long and 20 inches (50 cm) in diameter.[8] The jackfruit tree is well suited to tropical lowlands‚ and its fruit is the largest tree-borne fruit‚[7] reaching as much as 80 pounds (36 kg) in weight and up to 36 inches (90 cm) long and 20 inches (50 cm) in diameter.[8] The flesh
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Food Borne Illness Doneisha Jones October 1‚ 2012 SCI/220 Dr. Angela Branch Food that is mishandled can lead to foodborne illness. While the United States has one of the safest food supplies in the world‚ preventing foodborne illness remains a major public health challenge. Often when you purchase foods from the grocery store or the food market‚ you have to check all the expiration dates. When a food is expired‚ they tend to give you a sign that the food is no good. For example‚ when you
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Escherichia coli O157:H7(E-Coli) is an emerging cause of food borne illness. An estimated 73‚000 cases of infection and 61 deaths occur in the United States each year. Infection often leads to bloody diarrhea‚ and occasionally to kidney failure. Most illness has been associated with eating undercooked‚ contaminated ground beef. Person-to-person contact in families and child care centers is also an important mode of transmission. Infection can also occur after drinking raw milk and after swimming
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Salmonella is one of the most commonly reported types of food-borne illness. Salmonella is caused by a variety of different bacteria. The ensuing illness is treatable‚ but in some cases‚ fatal. Most of the time people aren’t even aware they have salmonella‚ they think something they ate didn’t agree with them and the symptoms are mild and disappear quickly. I believe no one really takes any action of going to a hospital or to their doctor until the symptoms worsen and become unbearable or scary for
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In the documentary Food Inc.‚ food-borne illness was one of the leading themes and also gave a story to go along with it. The director’s main argument was to show consumers where their food is coming from and the beginning stage of how it all begins‚ before getting on the table. “The Center for Disease Control estimated that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans get sick from foodborne diseases” (CDC‚ 2016). There are many types of food-borne illnesses‚ but the one thing that they all have in common
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