Essays on Infectious Disease

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…

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…

Infection control strategies are procedures or plans which are aimed in minimizing the risk of obtaining hospital acquired infections, also known as nosocomial infections. Health professionals should always keep up with latest research and findings in order to provide better care for their patients and…

Infection control is important in dental hygiene to protect the health and safety of patients and dental personnel. It is the responsibility of the dental hygienist to follow proper infection control standards to prevent direct or indirect cross-contamination. According to the Clayton State dental hygiene…

When one hears the word “plague”, they likely picture the Black Death, the bubonic plague epidemic most often taught about in schools; compared to this familiarity, the plague epidemic that killed 100% of its victims, the Manchurian Plague, is far less familiar. This epidemic, which…

This assignment will talk about the origins and effects of Ebola. Plus the characteristics of Ebola and what makes it so dangerous to human life. Also this assignment will talk about what will happen when Ebola enters the human body such as the physical effects,…

Ebola is a zoonotic disease, meaning that the disease can spread within, and infect across, both human and animal populations. In Ebola’s case the virus has been seen to spread through non-human primate populations with similar levels of devastation to that of humans (1), however…

Introduction My family and I have been planning for a family trip and picnic to visit Theodore Roosevelt National Park, located in Badlands, western North Dakota, USA (Nps.gov, 2019). The National Park is ideal for hiking trails, scenic drives, and ranger-led programs. The collection of…

History is much more than what just happened and to whom it happened to but how we as humans understand and ascribe to these events. A great plague swept over Europe where one third of Europe’s population died. In the book “In the Wake of…

Summary or Abstract: Zika is compacted as ZIKV is an arthropod virus that includes flaviviridae. It was initially selected from non-human living body. ZIKV got spread by stinging of mosquitoe. Since half a century ZIKV remain occasional later on it got fame in America. ZIKV…

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….

Being the nurse manager of a 36-bed orthopedic unit, it has come to my attention that there has been a significant increase in postoperative nosocomial urinary tract infections. This orthopedic unit holds a high percentage of postoperative total hip replacement patients that have sustained these…

Introduction Middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS) emerged with the death of a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia in 2012, and the causative agent was subsequently identified as a novel coronavirus (MERS-CoV), which belongs to lineage C Betacoronaviruses. As a zoonoses, with dromedary camels as…

The immune system is what keeps animals healthy and is essential for survival. The immune system fights against bacteria, viruses, parasites, and without it the body would just be open for attack. The immune system involves many types of cells, organs, proteins and tissues which…

Salmonella spp The Salmonella bacterium is a rod-shaped motile bacterium that posesses a flagellum. A flagellum is a long thin tail that helps the bacterium to move Salmonella reproduces asexually with binary fission. Binary fission has four steps: First the cell elongates and makes a…