USA vaccines cover A, C, W-135, and Y but not B (Coffee, 2015). The incubation period of meningococcal disease ranges from 2 to 10 days. The disease is spread through saliva and respiratory droplets. The most common way people transfer the disease is through kissing, sharing drinks, sharing used silverware, sharing lip balm, and close contact with an infected person who may cough or sneeze within three feet of an individual. Meningococcal meningitis is a fast moving, deadly infection that kills 10 to 13% of its victims within a matter of hours or days (CDC, 2015).
Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing (C228) – Task #2 TUBERCULOSIS Stephanie Sanderson Western Governors University Mentor: Mikki Naught October 12, 2014 Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (or, “TB”) has existed throughout history. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (or, M. tuberculosis) is the causative bacterium in most cases of TB. M. tuberculosis was first described by Robert Koch in March of 1882. Presently, it is one of the world’s deadliest diseases (www.cdc.gov). In 2013, more than 9500 cases of TB were reported in the United States alone; during the previous year, there were about 1.3 million TB-related deaths, worldwide.
The sick villagers, soldiers, and doctors begged McClintock and Ford to help them. Instead a fuel air bomb was dropped on the village, evaporating all living things in it. What is the name of the African country that the virus started in? 'Outbreak' For Diehards, Part 1 Zaire. The village in Zaire, Africa, which had the disease in 1967, doubled as a mercenary camp for American soldiers.
This was thought to be the worst form of the plagues and they usually had a life expectancy of around 1-2 days. The last type caused the septicemic version of the disease was spread more traditionally type which was passed from one infected person to another and this type attacked the blood system of the victim. They symptoms of this were very high fevers and purple skin patches. In most cases of the pneumonic and particularly septicemic plague the progress of the disease is so rapid that there would often be no time for the development of the enlarged lymph nodes that were noted as buboes. Many modern scholars accept that the lethality of the Black Death came from the combination of bubonic and pneumonic plague with other diseases and warn that every historical mention of 'pest' was not necessarily bubonic plague.
In vivid detail, Richard presents a meltdown of a man's body, known in the story as Charles Monet, which is invaded by a filovirus in a part of the African rain forests that also presents the world with HIV virus through the Kinshasa Highway. This becomes the first known index case and allows extreme amplification to occur as the virus spreads its bilions of replicated copies triggering a chain of lethal transmissions which could ultimately threaten the entire planet Earth. The first, attention-getting chapter, in The Hot Zone is based on a man named Charles Monet, a lonely Frenchmen, as I mentioned earlier. His mishaps begin when he enters Kitum Cave on Mount Elgon and proceeds onto an airplane. Charles starts puking black matter and experiences a tremendous amount of excruciating pain.
THE HOT ZONE Book Assignment –Question 1 Dean L. Field Lewis-Clark State College The book “THE HOT ZONE” is written by Richard Preston and is based on true events that occurred in Reston Maryland in the early 1980’s. The book follows the various outbreaks of the filovirus virus know as Marburg, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Zaire and Ebola Reston. Ebola Reston is an outbreak that occurred in Reston Maryland in a monkey house. Gene Johnson is a civilian biohazard expert who was running the Ebola research program at USAMRIDD institute. “Gene Johnson is described as being somewhat of a wild man who is a large man, with a broad heavy face and loose flying disheveled brown hair and a bushy beard with a gut hanging down over his belt and deep glaring eyes.
Coffin ships were mostly filthy and disease ridden, The Star was no different, on the 5th day of the 20 week voyage 4 steerage passengers die of typhus. The majority of steerage passengers had dysenyary, scurvy or famine dropsy while about 15 had all three. Word goes around that there are things missing from the first class passengers and some one has sawed through the loser foredeck gate bars. The crew soon discovers that there is a hack saw missing from the kitchen, the saw was stolen by pius mulvey. The 6th chapter in this novel is a letter from the hisband of mary duane, a nanny to one of the first class
The Conquest of the Red Calculator Shifa Somji Language Arts Mrs. Benzinger 15 April 2014 The Red Calculator Death had invaded Odle Middle School for some time now. The horrific disease had spread quickly through the classrooms in no time. It would cause lunch food to smell and taste like rubber. In the history of fatal diseases, none compared to its atrocity and brutality. Like an epidemic, the disease took over the body of the infected student in a mere five minutes.
Pray to the deity or the saint of your choice frequently and fervently. 12. Stay where you are until six months after the most recent nearby outbreak. The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30–60 percent of Europe's population[3] and reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million to between In all, 200-250 million people died over the course of more than a century. During the time of the Black Death however, (1347-1351) the death rate was an average of 33%.
In the late 1940s to the early 1950s, in the United States alone, polio crippled around 35,000 people each year making it one of the most feared diseases of the twentieth century. By 1979 the country had become polio free. There were 1,195 cases reported in 2006. Polio incidences has dropped more than 99.9 percent since the launch of global polio eradication efforts in 1988. According to global polio surveillance data from October 23, 2013, 301 polio cases have been reported from the following countries: Afghanistan, Cameroon, Nigeria, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and South Sudan.