Author: Jake Date: 12/09/2010 Introduction This essay includes my findings from research on the disease, and explains the signs, symptoms, causes, cures and prevention of the pathogen Cholera. The Bacterium Cholera is a severe bacterial infection caused by the bacterium “Vibrio cholerae”, the most common symptoms of the infection are diarrhoea ,vomiting and muscle cramps, this can lead to rapid dehydration and sometimes death. You can transmit Cholera by water that is contaminated with infected faeces; and also transmit it due to poor food hygiene1. Cholera kills an estimated 120,000 people a year2. If the bacteria enter the small intestine, they use their flagella to propel themselves through the lining of the intestinal wall, they produce a toxic protein.
These fish pose a significant threat to the great lakes due to their large size and feeding habits. The bighead carp consume vast amounts of food and quickly dominate a water body. The Asian Carp were imported around the nineteen seventies and were used for aquaculture operations. Although some believe that the Asian Carp should be kept alive because they are rich in omega-3s and are now being served in restaurants, Asian carp should be removed or eliminated completely from the great lakes because they will decimate the billion dollar fishing industry in the Great Lakes, and permanently damage the ecosystem. Some believe that the Asian Carp should be kept alive because of their nutritional value and their recent emergence in restaurants.
Throughout the Civil War, medical knowledge was extremely basic. Many doctors didn’t understand infection, and those who did, did little or nothing to prevent it. Approximately two thirds of the soldiers died from infections as a result of unsound hygiene and sanitary conditions. Disease was extremely prominent in Civil War camps because of the disgusting conditions that the soldiers had to live in. Even though during the civil war, many medical advancements were being made, they were not being made quick enough to save approximately 400,000 soldiers who died from disease and infection.
Task D Stafford Hospital A report on the failings, poor management and standards of care. Over the years there have been a number of failings resulting in a great number of deaths, this resulted in the public becoming extremely concerned due to the amount of relatives that have died due to the abuse and neglect of the staff at Staffordshire hospital. Numerous reports were made by relatives all of which were ignored, one particular relative demanded a meeting with the head of staff after writing numerous reports on their findings of the failings outlining the bad practice and poor standards of care of a particular department and was given a meeting which lasted no more than 10 minutes. During this meeting the person was made to feel that they were a nuisance and the report they made was untrue. Patients also made formal complaints, due to contracting C-diff, E-coli, Mrsa and severe pressure sores.
These runoffs have contributed to the beach closures, and the unsustainable condition of biological life in the lake. Human health is at great risk due to the untreated waste that is dumped in Lake Huron each year. The untreated sewage contains many viruses, two being Giardia (an intestinal parasite), cryptosporidium, which causes intestinal illnesses and even death. E. coli a more familiar virus has elevated its concentrations in Lake Huron, found in either animal or human feces, which causes diarrhea, nausea, and stomach cramps. ("Testing the waters,"
Crisis Management: An Analysis of the 1947 Texas City Explosion Kevin K. Rice Columbia Southern University Abstract Texas City became the site of the worst industrial catastrophe in United States history when two merchant ships, the SS Grandcamp and SS High Flyer, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded on the 16 and 17 April 1947. The Texas City disaster remains the worst industrial accident in US history. This disaster occurred prior to the realization that government entities needed to have emergency management plans. Since this major accident, major improvements have been made in emergency management ;however, the possibility of a disaster is always relative to the seriousness of the threat. This paper is a recounting of the events surrounding the accident, both before, during, and after.
It soon became known as “Psittacosis”. The first sign of illness from these tropical birds were “puffy eyes, a drooping head, and feathers as ruffled as if it had flown through a squall” (Lepore 692). A week after being exposed to this infectious bird, people became dangerously ill. The symptoms of both were pneumonia and typhoid. On January 6, 1930 it
The first influence of the plague on the weakening was how many of the sick who were not killed overnight asked clergymen, who themselves often became ill, for answers, and the answers were usually not satisfactory and drove people to look for answers away from the church. Also playing into the church’s weakness was the clergy being drastically reduced in size with certain sects seeing a decrease of one third of the officials. Part of the reason for the exceptionally high mortality rate among the clergy was that they were often requested by the family of a sick person and were in close proximity to more of the sick than any other group. The deaths of many skilled clergymen caused not fully trained members to be cast into their shoes, which again caused much disillusionment amongst the churches followers because the untrained clergy was rarely the same quality of those who had deceased
She references death and dying several times which makes it seem as if it were a prevalent occurrence. During the civil rights movements of the 1960’s there were many riots and events as well as into the 70’s. Many people did not necessarily feel safe doing the things they used to because of the turmoil. Then back to Sherman Alexie’s poem where the speaker says, “If Don Henley’s brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers hadn’t come here in the first place then nothing would need to be saved”, the speaker expresses even deeper cultural concerns (6, 3-5). Not only does he not care about the history of the buildings and ponds, but he has resentment for the people who stole the land.
It often came down to hand to hand contact and quick thinking. This war scared almost all the soldiers for life, the ones who lived through it all at least. The total number of US casualties in the Vietnam War was 58,220. The ones who did live didn’t get a welcome home either. When the Vietnam Veterans returned back home they were treated worse than some of the terrorists now a days.