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Viral Infection Host Cell
851 wordsIt all started with a little tickling in my throat. I forged ahead, knowing all too well what that feeling meant, I was getting sick. I convinced myself to just not think about it and it would just go away. This whole time there was an army of alien species amassing in my bloodstream and older cells. They are horrifyingly ugly, like something straight out of H. R. Geiger's imagination. They writhe and twitch while they are on the hunt for one of your precious body cells. One can almost imagine t...
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Toxic Shock Syndrome Infectious Diseases
774 wordsNecrotizing fasciitis is more commonly known as "flesh-eating disease." It is a rare illness that causes extensive tissue destruction and can lead to death. In Canada, there are 90 - 200 cases of necrotizing fasciitis each year. Some of the Symptoms that can be noticeable or just from the inside of necrotizing fasciitis include fever, severe pain, and a red, painful swelling which spreads rapidly. Death can occur in 12 to 24 hours. When the disease spreads along the layers of tissue that surroun...
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Communicable Diseases Menstrual Cycle
1,144 words... hough the vagina. Problems that occur from the procedure, which are rare but serious, are blockage of the pulmonary artery, bleeding, infection, and tubal pregnancy. A type of microscopic organism that is not bacteria, viruses, or fungi. However, it is similar to bacteria in that it can be eliminated with certain antibiotics. It is responsible for several human diseases. 1. Symptoms: yellowish vaginal discharge, painful urination, lower abdominal pain, spotting after sex or between periods. ...
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Pneumonic Plague Bubonic Plague
1,804 wordsIn the early 1330 s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. Plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected, they infect others very rapidly. Plague causes fever and a painful swelling of the lymph glands called buboes, which is how it gets its name. The disease also causes spots on the skin that are red at first and then turn black. Since China was one of the busiest of the world's trading nations, it was only a matter of tim...
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Liquid From The Blisters Jenner Repeated Smallpox
821 wordsSmallpox has been one of the most dangerous and deadly curses ever placed on humankind. Even illnesses as terrible as the plague, cholera, and yellow fever have not had such a universal effect. Smallpox is a parasitic virus (a virus destructive to the host) called variola. Its considered to be a crowd disease, spreading only through people and requiring a large densely populated area to survive. If the virus is cut off from new host bodies it dies out. Smallpox is spread by what is called drople...
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Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Ebola Reston
1,212 wordsIn the year 1976, Ebola climbed out of its unknown hiding place, and caused the death of 340 people. Fear gripped the victims' faces, and uncertainty tortured their minds. The people of Zaire waited outside clinics, churches and in their homes for a treatment of the horrible disease, but there was no cure. They were forced to watch people die, hoping that they would be saved from the violent death of the Ebola virus. From the year of 1976 to the present date of 1996, researchers have searched fo...
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U S History Panama Canal
1,260 wordsAfter the war with Spain at Cuba, the United Stats realized that a faster route was necessary in order to deploy its warships from Pacific Ocean to Atlantic Ocean. It was because the warships in Pacific Ocean had to take a detour around Cape Horn, which is located at the extreme South end of South America, in order to go to the sea area of Cuba. The total distance amounted to 224, 000 kilometers, and this great distance caused great amount of wasted time during the war. (web) Panama Canal was th...
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Joan Of Arc Henry Viii
1,214 wordsThe authors of Disease & History point out that disease has been a crucial determinant that marks history. Frederick F. Cartwright, Department of the History of Medicine, and Dr. Michael Biddiss, Director of Studies in History at Downing College Cambridge, collaborated together to write this book. With Dr. Biddiss extensive knowledge of history as a professional historian and with Cartwright's studies of the history of medicine they have written a book about the effects diseases have on hist...
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Salk Vaccine Polio Vaccine
1,616 wordsPolio, more properly known as poliomyelitis, was one of the most feared and studied diseases in the first half of the Twentieth Century (Sass, 1). This disease has paralyzed thousands in American history (Health Education Facts Sheet, 1). Polio struck its victims, mostly children under the age of three, as it appeared unpredictably bringing on a panic in the 1940 s and 50 s. Then, a break through occurred when Jonas Salk's research established an effective vaccine to the poliovirus. Today, the f...
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Parts Of The Body Genital Herpes
1,555 words... ow, but also in another attempt the following year. Carlo Alberto was obliged to abdicate in favor of Victor Emanuel II. In a 852 Count Camillo Benso Di Cavour became the prime minister of the king. He played an important role in the unification of Italy. He based all his work on diplomacy. At the congress of Paris in 1856, concluding the Crimean War, fought by the army of Piedmont in a coalition with France and England against Russia and Turkey, Cavour made the possible to raise the Italian...
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Louisa May Alcott Civil War
1,470 wordsby Louisa May Alcott This book is Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. It in a town in New England in the 1800 's. It about a family and the girls growing up during the 1800 's and the things they have to face. The growing pains that all girls have to go through even now. This was a very sad book at the end when Beth dies. The four main characters are Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth the story centers around the four girls and the life they have during the time they are growing up. Marmee the girls mother is...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Herpes Simplex
489 wordsHerpes-Simplex: Type 2 Herpes is a name that is used to describe several types of skin eruptions that are characterized by formation of blisters. The term embraces primarily two distinct disorders, herpes simplex and herpes zoster, both caused by viruses. Together, these herpes viruses are estimated to cause more human illnesses than any other group of viruses. Two types of herpes simplex are known. The first causes cold sores or fever blisters, which is an eruption of blisters that often occurs...
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Pulmonary Artery Heart Failure
884 wordsHeart Murmur, Atherosclerosis, &# 038; Heart Failure A heart murmur is a sound caused by blood flowing through a childs heart or through blood vessels entering or leaving the heart. More that 50 percent of all people will be diagnosed with a heart murmur sometime in their lives. When a childs doctor or nurse practitioner detects a heart murmur, this causes many parents quite a bit of anxiety, especially if they have relatives with heart disease. Luckily, in most children a heart murmur does not ...
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Academy Of Sciences Light Bulb
1,424 wordsIlluminating the Path of Progress Thomas Alva Edison is the most famous inventor in American History. Edison designed, built, and delivered the electrical age. He started a revolution that would refocus technology, change life patterns, and create millions of jobs. He became famous for his scientific inventions, even though he was not a scientist. His real talent was his ability to clearly judge a problem and be persistent in experimenting. He was the master of the trial and error method. Thomas...
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Epstein Barr Virus Immune System
818 wordsMononucleosis, also known Mononucleosis Mononucleosis Mononucleosis, also known as Mono, is an illness caused by an infection with a virus. The virus, The Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) is usually the cause of Mono. Other infectious viruses, like cytomegalovirus (CMV) can also produce illnesses like Mono. Most of the people who get Mono are adolescents and young adults. In developed nations, the majority of the people has been exposed to the Epstein- Barr virus by the age of 18. That means that many a...
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Story Of An Hour Kate Chopin
2,472 wordsKate Chopin is a brilliant writer. Her writing career is during the late 1800? s. She lives in a time where women are sexually suppressed and their opinions are not valued. Her writing holds more in common with our time than the time just after the Civil War. Although her life was full of death, she still lived as happy a life as she could by writing in such a bold and daring way. Kate Chopin was born as Catherine O? Flaherty. She was born July 12, 1850. She is the daughter of Thomas and Eliza O...
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Abdominal Pain Six Weeks
981 wordsEver wonder what kind of parasites are in your water, or how they can enter in to your body to make you very sick? Well it is most definite that no on want to get sick. The information found in this paper was collected over the past month, either by going to the library or by accessing information off the Internet at home, almost every night. The point that will be given to you is a little in information about the infectious disease called Schistosomiasis. The points the main points will be the ...
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Infected With Mono Blood
314 wordsMononucleosis is an infectious virus caused by the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), one of the Herpesviruses. Mononucleosis is also called mono, the kissing disease, and glandular fever. It usually strikes people in the ten to thirty-five year old age group, but it can also infect younger people. Mono is spread by exchange of saliva. Some examples of this are, kissing, sharing drinking glasses, and sharing silverware. You can avoid getting infected by washing your hands, avoiding infected people, and n...
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Heightened Sensitivity Henry Iv Fahrquhar's
998 wordsThe exact positioning of the men and the careful attention to terminology in the description of their postures is part of Bierce's reality effect. He is creating this event as a fact by using the precise language of military drill. These details have a thematic effect as welcome Bierce identifies explicitly. The goal of establishing the reality of the situation is reinforced by the geographic and historical references (e. g. Alabama, Federal). The arrangement of the troops has thematic significa...
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Bubonic Plague Pneumonic Plague
2,080 wordsBubonic Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. People usually get plague from the bite of a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an infected animal. Millions of people in Europe died from plague in the Middle Ages, when flea-infested rats inhabited human homes and places of work. Today, modern antibiotics are effective against the plague, but if an infected person does not seek treatment promptly, the disease...
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