Essays on Fever

Sunshine it may seem but yellow for once had been a scary colour, for in the past it sent people running away from their homes while fire still burning in their chimneys and with doors unlocked in fear. Because who would not when someone turned frighteningly yellow, and, who would not be alarmed when numerous people around went sick for undetermined reasons.It was 3000 B.C when the disease was first spotted in the remote place of Africa, which sooner spread in the American continent in 1680s ...

The book I read was Fever 1793. It is a nonfictional book that describes what happens during a girl’s life when the Yellow Fever strikes Philadelphia. Once I started reading this book it seemed as if the author made it so that after each chapter you would have to keep reading. The book Fever 1793 is written by Laurie Anderson and if anyone is considering a book to read I suggest this one. It was very easy to understand and I couldn’t believe that it was a true story. The story has many major ...

Fever 1793 portrays a young fourteen year old girl, Matilda Cook, who lives in Philadelphia, as an epidemic sweeps through know as, Yellow Fever. Yellow fever is a disease that starts with a fever and muscle ache. Then, targets often become jaundiced; this is where “Yellow” fever comes from. Although Fever 1793 is historical fiction, Anderson achieved massive amounts of research to create the intriguing story of what happens to Matilda and her family. Using the appendix of Fever 1793 by Laurie ...

What is fever? Body temperature is regulated by the hypothalamus, a specialised group of neurones which act to control the bodies “set point”. It can modulate various body mechanisms in order to maintain this physiological set point e. g behavioural and physiological responses. Fever is a regulated increase in body temperature above the normal temperature. It is initiated by an increase in the thermoregulatory set point. A person with a fever may feel chills and shiver as the hyptothalamus ...

It all starts with the Fever and chills Extreme weakness Abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting Bleeding from your mouth, nose or rectum, or under your skin and the Blackening and death of tissue in your extremities, most commonly your fingers, toes and nose. This is how you know you have the bubonic plague or more commonly now as the black death there is also the Pneumonic Plague and Septicaemic Plague usually if have contracted these diseases you will die within 5 or less days. The black ...

It’s simply known as typhoid, it is a bacterial infection due to a specific type of Salmonella particularly, Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhi growing in the intestines and blood. Typhoid can be spread by eating or drinking food or water contaminated with the faeces of an infected person. The risk factors include poor sanitation and poor hygiene and only humans can be infected with typhoid disease. Moreover other people may carry the bacterium without being affected; however, ...

A fever is the body's reaction to infection. A fever is a rise in temperature that will make your child feel sick and uncomfortable. If the fever is left untreated he may eventually suffer from a convulsion. Here are some tips to help you bring down your child's temperature. A temperature of 38 degrees celsius or above is a fever. Take your child's temperature with a temperature strip, digal thermometer or with a aural thermometer, which measures the body's temperature through the ear canal. ...

Anybody who prepares food for many others, especially those who do on a commercial basis, has a duty of care to create and serve food that is both mutually acceptable, in addition to regarded as healthy for human consumption. Any food that is infected in anyway like with glass or metallic contaminants, or together with vermin stool or components, or food that has been contested or improperly preserved or ready is harmful to the health of anybody who'd swallow it, and is categorized as not ...

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is one of a health problem worldwide, which severe dengue is a leading cause of serious illness and death among children in some Asian and Latin American Countries . Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever is communicable disease caused by dengue virus that is transmitted by Aedes aegypti . Before 1970, only 9 countries had experience severe dengue epidemic. However, the disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries in Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, ...