In 1999 the virus appeared in North America for the first time and in the next year spread to 12 states killing 8 people and sickening 80 others. (Lee, M.C. 23-34) C. In the U.S., birds appear to be the major carrier of the disease and they pass it on to humans as follows: 1. When mosquitoes feed on the blood of the infected birds, the insects ingest this virus. 2.
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).
The French physician Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran first identified the parasite under the microscope in 1880. Ronald Ross and Giovanni Grassi recognized the mosquito as the malaria vector in 1897 (Good, 2001). However, despite enormous and diverse efforts to control this disease, malaria is among the top three most deadly communicable diseases and the most deadly tropical parasitic disease today (Sachs and Malaney, 2002). According to the World Malaria Report 2010, there were 225 million cases of malaria and an estimated 781 000 deaths in 2009, a decrease from 233 million cases and 985 000 deaths in 2000. Most deaths occur among children living in Africa where a child dies every 45 seconds of malaria and the disease accounts for approximately 20% of all childhood deaths (WHO 2010).
In the 40 years prior to 2002 there were 900 cases of leprosy in the United States. In the following 3 years there were 9,000 cases and many were from undocumented immigrants. Malaria was eradicated in the 1940’s but recently has broken out from southern California across the country to our own Houston, Texas. These are horrible diseases that kill and statistically come from our illegal
8 hours. Then was transferred to a different hospitals ER again by ambulance and was isolated as Measles was the probable diagnosis. The family members were also told to isolate themselves. Laboratory serologic test confirmed a recent measles in the fifteen and sixteen yr. old. There were 97 contacts that had been interviewed and three of these which had been verified with
Community Health & Population C228 Western Governors University VWT Task 2 The Ohio measles outbreak of April 2014 accounted for more than half of the reported cases that year. In Ohio Amish country of Knox county, three hundred eighty three people became ill after unvaccinated Amish missionaries traveled to the Philippines, only to return infected with the measles virus (Newsmax, 2015). It was on an April afternoon when the Knox County health department received a call from an Amish woman reporting that her family and her neighbor’s family both had measles. The health department immediately began to test the families by collecting samples, nasal swabs, and draw blood (Tribble, 2014). Once the measles virus had been confirmed it was reported to the CDC of the outbreak.
Lupus: The Body Attacking Itself Systematic lupus erythematosus, better known as SLE or more popularly as lupus, is an auto-immune disease which causes the body to pretty much attack itself (Brown 4). As the case with other auto-immune diseases, when lupus occurs, the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks its normal, healthy tissue, slowly killing a person from the inside out (Maraux 5). Everybody can get lupus, but the disease is more common in women than men, and past studies have shown that it is also more common in African Americans and Asians ages 15 through 45 (Blau 30). Lupus is a disease that can damage the body inside and out, is hard to diagnose right away, has many harmful complications, and has multiple forms (New York Times
It can often prove to be fatal. Cholera is a water-borne disease caused by a bacteria found in tainted water or food. It can kill within weeks through dehydration, but is treatable if caught in time. The spread started 3 years ago in Haiti and entered to Mexico through a hurricane and tropical storm which caused heavy rains, floods, landslides and internal displacement of populations, thus increasing the risk of diarrheal diseases. 171 affected cases, 1 dead were reported in Mexico.
The World Bank and Its Role in the Ebola Crisis Over the past several months, an outbreak of Ebola virus diease has devastated West Africa. Several countries have paid a high price, in terms of both lives lost and economic impact. Due to the lack of financial resources common throughout most of Africa, the region is ill equipped to mount a quick, effective response to this outbreak. The World Bank, which has recently announced and implemented a finance package to assist the affected countries, is uniquely capable of assisting the region. The World Bank was established in 1944, and has a twofold mission: to “end poverty, and boost shared prosperity.” (http://www.worldbank.org/en/about).
AIDS Prevention in Africa South Africa has serious problem when it comes to AIDS and HIV. This disease is a killer and is feared throughout the world. When you are diagnosed with this disease, it is all but a death sentence. South Africa will continue to be one of the countries most affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Around two thirds of the global total are living with HIV in that area.