Nurses and health care providers implement aspects from a few different canons into the process of aiding in infection control and prevention of cholera in Haiti. Cholera is an extremely deadly disease, as of 2010 it affects 3-5 million individuals and causes about 100,000-130,000 deaths a year. Cholera is caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholerae which results in a diarrhea illness (Kraft, 2010). “This bacterium can enter a human’s internal environment through different pathways, with consuming dirty water and food being the most prevalent reason for acquiring this disease” (Kraft, 2010). In 2010, 303 people passed away due to the cholera outbreak in Haiti, and over 4,700 individuals were treated for this illness (Cholera Prevention Efforts, 2010).
The “Forgotten Country” of Djibouti The small country of Djibouti, that is often referred to as the “forgotten country” is plagued by social, economic and environmental factors. With a drug addiction that is accepted as a social norm to an opiate based drug called khat, the population has stifled itself. The poverty caused partly by a Civil War has left a devastating mark on the economy. The high mortality rate can be attributed to disease, lack of sanitation and readily available medicine. It is important to look at how a population’s addiction to drugs, poverty and high mortality rate can affect the overall success of a nation.
The second type of sleeping sickness is called Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense generally affects east Africa. . Both diseases are a parasitic disease caused by a blood meal from the tsetse fly in which the mammal acts as the host. Currently, about thirty thousand humans are infected with the disease and counting, this is not including mammals such as cows that are also very susceptible to the disease. The largest infected population of African sleeping sickness is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, taking over eighty percent of the cases.
The purpose of this essay is to reflect on the relationship between food and culture and how people in Shakespearian times used the two to overcome The Bubonic Plague. The Black Plague was an epidemic that took the lives of one-third of all Europeans during the time Shakespeare was alive. With the plague running rapid, many people became corrupt in order to find food and support there families. In Kastan’s A Companion to Shakespeare, he says, “the high prices and shortages of food, were wicked, wondering, idle people whose thefts were at the heart of all the trouble.” (34) He then goes on to say, in regards to the new corrupt people: Worse, the cost of imprisoning them all meant that there was no money left over to relieve the truly needy poor. His answer to these problems was straight forward: harsher laws and sharper law enforcement to stop the mouths of these people who laugh in their sleeves at the lenity of the law and the timorousness of the executioners of it… There was much seditious talk (for which many were hanged), and in Kent alone there were eleven riots connected with these shortages of grain between 1585 and 1603.
The common way of treating a virus is through immunization as anti-biotics will not be effective against viral infections. The virus infection can cause things like the Influenza, common cold, stomach flu, pneumonia, blood born infections, ear infections and HIV/AIDS. Fungi- live in the air, water, soil and on plants and they can live in the
flammatory foods! ! ! Anti-Inflammatory Foods By Jack Challem Chronic inflammation almost always lurks beneath the surface of diabetes and excess weight. You can't see or feel it, but this type of inflammation increases the risk of coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death among people with diabetes.
“The disease HIV/AIDS is very present today in Haiti due to poverty, mass poverty, the lack of almost every necessity—clean water and shoes, medicine and food” (Kidder. Pt.3 Ch.13). Not all of Haiti is experiencing poverty and the full effect of this disease. The division of the wealthy vs. the poor was known as the epi divide, or epidemiological divide. Although the divide shared many common characteristics such as race, beliefs, and religion, the divide did separate what was most noticeable and that was wealth.
The United Nation Children's Fund (UNICEF) figures show that 25,000 children die each day from poverty alone. Roghly1.1 billion people in developing countries lack access to clean water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation. This leads to disease and malnutrition. More than 6 million people die each year from preventable diseases such as malaria. According to the United Nations
The illnesses symptoms include fatigue, depression, pneumonia, starvation and a weakened immune system; which increases the likelihood of infection and prone to disease, damaging the body further. Much of the research has been focused on fruit and vegetables as they are the main suppliers of vitamins and nutrients in our diet. At the John Innes centre a government funded researcher based in Norfolk, U.K have been looking into genetically modifying plants to give the consumer potential health benefits. When recently visiting the facility we looked at current
Physical factors, usually associated with illness, are the predominant cause of malnutrition in UK adults, although psychosocial issues have significant effects on dietary intake in some groups (e.g. the socially isolated, the bereaved, poor quality diets in low income groups and some older subjects). Since malnutrition both predisposes to disease (Table 7) and is simultaneously an outcome of disease, patients may enter a downward spiral of ill-health due to malnutrition-disease interactions. (NCBI) Muscle function relies primarily on nutrients received through nutritious foods and vitamins. A loss of fat and muscle mass is commonly the biggest sign of malnutrition.