Essays on Epidemiology

Recently, Asthma prevalence has been on the rise because of the lifestyle risk associated with the disease. The disease is also influenced by genetics. It causes a significant health problem across the world, and also it is an economical burden. According to the report by…

D. A Henderson, a prominent epidemiologist, stated that “Dropping anatomic bomb could cause casualties in a specific area, but dropping smallpox could engulf the world.’ Epidemics are so powerful and could wipe out an entire population in a matter of months. In the 1300s, around…

The nature and number of people living in cities have been affected by infectious diseases. Over the course of history, illnesses have always been big epidemics. Many infectious diseases have played an important role in our lives, our economies, our culture and our daily lives….

With the invention of science and modern medical science technology the very term “Epidemics” has bagged its impact of from our society. Though it did spread it deadly effect in 1000 years ago. Our primitive society was in a state of heterogeneous obstacles. There was…

In the current study, PCR was employed on vaginal swab to diagnose Q fever as one of the routes of discharge of C. burnetii is the vaginal mucus. Infected ticks are playing a major part in the transmission of C. burnetii among livestock. Camels are…

John Snow studied the cholera outbreak in London in the mid-1840s. Snow had hypothesized that cholera was transmitted by water. He realized that deaths occurred around the pumps from the downstream company. He created a map of locations of deaths from cholera and saw the…

Environmental Epidemiology The key understanding between the epidemiologic triangle and Hill’s criteria of causality is indeed the fact that there is a correlation revealing a cause and effect mechanism of exposures and health outcomes within the environment of a population. Therefore, the epidemiologic triangle consists…

The Invisible Foe The United States has faced many epidemics within its life time. The first epidemic Americans faced was in 1633. When European settlers arrived at current day United States they not only brought new technology and religions, they also brought smallpox. Smallpox was…

It begins as minor flu symptoms: chills, fever, fatigue, runny nose. Nothing to worry about, just minor symptoms that should go away within the next week or so. The week passes and things seem to never get any better. Complications develop. The symptoms become more…

The World Health Organization defines epidemiology as “the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems. Epidemiology is a huge field containing several sub-fields such…