This disease is a member of the herpes virus family and can lead to other infectious diseases such as “viral pneumonia, infection of the brain (encephalitis) and bleeding problems” according to the csg.org (2007). Early symptoms can range from a low grade fever, dizziness, fatigue, dehydration, and the worsening of asthma. This disease is most commonly exposed and passed among children, but can be even more dangerous if contracted by adults. It is noted that if you have had chicken pox, the shingle virus is embedded and lying dormant in your nervous system which can cause chronic pain syndrome at the site of the original shingles eruption also known as (post-herpetic neuralgia). Describe the disease, how it is transmitted, and the environmental factors that may make someone vulnerable to it.
It’s common in adults, adolescents, and even infants; but can be potentially fatal for infants (March). Leukocytosis, particularly WBC counts of more than 100,000, has been associated with fatalities from Pertussis. According to Arthur Allen, “Toxins released by the bacteria cripple white blood cells and cilia, the tiny hairs in the upper respiratory passages, and the cilia, through genetic programming, actually promote the growth and production of toxins by the bacteria (267). Whooping cough is the second most deadly respiratory tract pathogen. It ranges from being moderately to highly durable in the external environment (Edward, 75).
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,
The medical and scientific communities began developing new theories and applied them to prevention, diagnoses, and treatments of diseases (5). Vaccines are difficult to develop for the influenza virus because all flu viruses mutate constantly. The flu virus mutates too quickly for the body’s immune system to keep up. When the flu virus infects a cell, it reproduces inside it until the cell erupts. Each time a cell erupts, a swarm of 100,000-1 million new viruses escape.
They are still with us, and circulation in many parts of the world.” Measles is a highly contagious and is spread through the air. Before the vaccine almost every child was infected with measles by the time they were 15 years old. Unfortunately, measles have yet to be eradicated. Many of the cases are due to vaccination noncompliance (Cuneta). Mumps virus attacks the salivary glands causing edema and life threatening complications.
It starts off by giving you high fevers, deep rasher, oozing pustules and has a really bad odor. It looked like severe scarring of the skin with deep pock marks that looks almost like chicken pox just worst. Whoever gets it dies from internal as well as external bleeding. Small pox is airborne, if you spend a lot of time with someone you can get it. You can also get it by sharing body fluids or bedding and clothing.
Chicken pox is a different virus it is a herpes virus and isn't related to small pox. It is spread probably by inhalation, the virus is found throughout the patient's body. All the lesions grow until they grow together, and the under skin is killed off and you skin can fall apart. It kills by loss of skin and fluid, while 20% died around another 20% were scarred for life. It can grow not just the outer skin but inside the body, it can grow on the surface of the eye inside the throat and other places.
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).
Ebola…even the name sounds sinister. This virus, part of a quartet of filoviruses, is considered more dangerous, and more infectious, than the HIV virus. So why don’t we hear more about Ebola? Its death rate is far higher than any other virus, but most of the world’s population doesn’t even know it exists. Yellow fever is considered a highly infectious disease, yet its death rate of 1/20 is nothing compared to Marburg’s ¼.
Know the virus is very common from a single Mosquito bite during the summer season. However, not all mosquitos carry WNV. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) tell us that “West Nile Virus is an"arbovirus" that causes encephalitis (inflammation to the brain)” (CDC (2006). The virus can infect humans, birds, mosquitoes, horses and some other mammals. Buckley (2011)explains the process that occurs when a Blood-feeding insects such as mosquitoes become infected when they feed on infected birds, which leaves the virus in their blood for a few days ( para.2).