The worst and final symptom of progressed MRSA infection is death Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/05/08/mrsa-antibiotic-resistant-bug-that-has-health-officials-worried/#ixzz2UnSQcGzS When MRSA infects skin, a swollen, red area develops, and it is usually painful. MRSA skin infections may develop pus or weep other fluids. If left untreated, a MRSA skin infection can go progressively deeper into the body,
What is it? 4. Scientists suspect that the humans infected during this outbreak acquired the disease from eating meat from diseased animals. Even when meat is well cooked, it transmits the infection. What does this say about the infectious agent?
Finally, avoid contact with people who show signs of sore throat. There are a couple of treatments, also; they are surgery that removes infected tissues, antibiotics and intravenous immunoglobulin, treat complications, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. This “flesh-eating bacteria” is something that will ruin patients’ lives if they catch
• Gastrointestinal (GI) anthrax, as its name suggests, occurs when the bacteria is ingested. If an animal is infected with anthrax and is then slaughtered for its meat, and the infected meat is not cooked properly, the meat will leave the consumer with chronic stomach pains, bloody diarrhea or vomiting, loss of appetite and/or nausea. GI anthrax is significantly more serious than cutaneous anthrax and has a higher mortality rate of 25-60% (BHC, 2012). • Pulmonary anthrax is the least common, yet most deadly form of anthrax; this form of anthrax can be used as a weapon in bioterrorism. Bacteria spores are inhaled by victims, causing influenza like symptoms and eventually death to 70-80% of victims in spite of treatment (BHC, 2012).
To Vaccinate Cathy Albano Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted on July 12, 2014, for Dr. Laura Cleveland’s M232/MEA2203 Pathophysiology Summer Quarter 2014. To Vaccinate A battle against rabies in humans, in order to prevent this, animals must be vaccinated along with humans, over ninety-nine percent of all rabies infections in humans are from an animal bites. Rabies breaks down the immune system and spreads to the brain stem causing a dangerous affect which leads to death. It is imperative to have animals vaccinated to prevent them from getting the rabies virus, which in turn can be contracted to a human through a bite. It is estimated that nearly 55,000 human deaths occur from rabies, due to not being
KENNETH T. WRIGHT World Civilizations I HIS 103 Impact of the Black Death Stuart Collins 21 November 2011 Impact of the Black Death Black Death is often fatal without prompt and appropriate treatment. It affects mainly poor and remote populations. Late diagnosis is one of the major causes of human death and spread of the disease, since it limits the effectiveness of control measures. The bacterial agent for the disease is Yersinia Pestis. It is considered to have permanent reservoirs in central Asia, Siberia, the Yunan region of China, and areas of Iran, Libya, the Arabian Peninsula, and East Africa.
In general, both children and adults with sickle cell anemia are more vulnerable to infections. This vulnerability is the result of spleen, the organ that filters blood, damage from sickled erythrocytes. Spleen damage prevents the organ from destroying bacteria in the blood. All individuals with the disease, especially young children, are susceptible to bacterial infections such as sepsis, pneumonia and meningitis (Bindon, 2004). Pneumococcal infections was the principal cause of death in children with sickle cell anemia until physicians began routinely giving penicillin on a preventive basis to those who are diagnosed at birth or in early infancy (Bownas, 2000).
TSE’s are rare brain diseases where abnormal proteins accumulate in the brain of the infected being. Science doesn't really know what actually causes these proteins to go haywire, but this is what they believe happens in Mad Cow Disease. What happens is the prions, or abnormal proteins, build up in the central nervous system tissues of the cow, for example, the brain, spinal cord, and retinas. The abnormal proteins in the brain cells result in altered functions of the cow and the death of the central nervous system cells, which kill the cow (www.bseinfo.org). To make things more complicated the lethal dose is unknown.
We vaccinate against measles, mumps and rubella because they are very unpleasant illnesses and either one of them could cause a death. Measles an cause ear infections, pneumonia, eye infections, fits and encephalitis (inflammation of your brain). Sometimes it can be fatal. Mumps can cause meningitis and result in deafness. It may also cause inflammation of the pancreas.
Diseases of the Immune System Multiple Sclerosis Multiple Sclerosis is a disease in which the immune system attacks the myelin, which is a sheath that protects your nerves. This damage disrupts the communication between your brain and the rest of your body. Eventually the nerves themselves may deteriorate and this is currently irreversible. The cause of multiple sclerosis is unknown. It's believed to be an autoimmune disease, in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues (mayoclinic.org).