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Station Marlow Stepping Stone
937 wordsThe three stations in Conrad's novella, The Heart of Darkness, serve as steps in a descent. When Marlow's journey down the Congo is examined, it can be viewed as if it were a descent into the pool that is Africa. The stations themselves are attempts at oases within the harsh jungle, but, through exposure, have become corrupted by the darkness of the land. With each station, Marlow comes closer and closer to his final goal, the inner station where Kurtz waits for him. This final station represent...
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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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Positive For Tb Infected Person Tuberculosis
381 wordsTuberculosis is a deadly disease that kills more people worldwide than any other identified infectious disease. Tuberculosis has declined in the United States but it is still deadly and can not be ignored. The disease particularly infects people of racial and ethnic minorities, specifically Latinos and African Americans. There is treatment for TB but it is quite costly and must be administered for 6 9 months depending on the patient. And if the proper treatment is not administered it increases t...
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Guinea Pigs Animal Research
761 wordscures await discovery. Although the list is pretty much endless, here are some examples, by decade, including the main species used that were crucial to the discovery: Pre- 1900: Treatment for rabies (dogs, rabbits), smallpox (cows), anthrax (sheep). 1900 s: Cardiac catheterization techniques (dogs, rabbits), treatment for rickets (dogs). 1920 s: Discovery of insulin (dogs). 1930 s: Development of modern anesthesia (dogs), prevention of tetanus (horses), development of anticoagulants (cats). 194...
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Penicillin G Types Syphilis Gonorrhea Antibiotic
559 wordsAntibiotics was created to kill the growth of infectious organisms, produced by bacteria or molds that are toxic to other micro- organisms. Antibiotic refers to antibacterials all antibiotics are more toxic to an organism than they are to an animal or human. How they made antibiotics was not understood until the late 20 th century. the principle of using organic compounds to fight infection has been known since ancient times. Plant extracts were used for medicine for centuries and still used tod...
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Protease Inhibitors Opportunistic Infections
1,192 wordsA disease is an abnormality of an animal or plant, caused by a pathogenic organism. Therefore, disease resistance is the ability to withstand the attack of these pathogens and remain virtually unaffected. The disease may be infectious (communicable), caused by invading organisms that live parasitically on or within the body. The disease causing organisms include viruses, some bacteria and certain other organisms that may be passed from person to person e. g. Plasmodium that causes malaria. Other...
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Disease Causing Entire Body
448 wordster> The nature of DISEASE CAUSING ORGANISMS and the mechanisms employed by man to combat these organisms. What is disease? A disease is a disturbance in the normal structure or function of an organism, group of organisms or the entire body. Diseases affect different organisms in different ways, they may be temporary, they may be chronic, or they may be terminal. They may even be localized or widespread through an entire body. Many diseases have been eradicated, but, some have no cure....
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Diseases Are Easily Preventable Diseases Are Easily Immunisation
574 wordsWe are always hearing on the news and in newspapers about children catching diseases and often dying from them. Why is this happening when all of these diseases are easily preventable by simply being immunised, why arent parents getting their children Immunised, is it for religious beliefs or just carelessness. What ever their reason may be is it really good enough, because why would anyone rather let their child be able to catch and spread a deadly disease then have them Immunised, so Immunisat...
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Viral Dna Infectious Disease
817 wordsPolio is an infectious disease that has haunted the lives of many for over 3, 000 years. The first record of Poliomyelitis in the human body dates back to ancient Egypt where inhabitants of the area engraved a documented version of paralytic Poliomyelitis into stone. When indoor plumbing came into use, in the 20 th century, and sewage systems began to develop into complicated public works where waste was dumped into towns' water supplies; that is when Poliomyelitis began to spread. The disease c...
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Cancer Has Spread Radiation Therapy
1,464 wordsGreat strides have been made in recent years in the development of a vaccine to treat the cervical cancer. Scientists have cultivated a prophylactic vaccine that would protect against the human papillomavirus. HPV's role in generating cervical cancer was discovered in 1983. The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), located in Lyon, France, has been in the forefront in epidemiological and laboratory studies needed to comprehend the disease. The IARC have chosen different metho...
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Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Cerebrospinal Fluid
1,099 wordsMeningitis Meningitis (or cerebrospinal meningitis) is the inflammation or infection of the tissues (dura mater of brain or spinal cord, pia mater of brain, cranial arachnoid or arachnoid of spinal cord) that cover spinal cord and the brain. Consequently, different types of microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, funds, etc) can cause meningitis. Infectiologists consider that under certain circumstances any microorganism can cause meningitis at any person of any age. However, infants and children up ...
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Running Head Microbiology 100 Module 2
869 wordsRunning head: MICROBIOLOGY 100 MODULE 2 Microbiology 100 Module 2 July 18, 2009 Microbiology 100 Module 2 Characteristics of Bacteria Bacteria are very small, microscopic organisms whose single cells have neither membrane-bounded organelles nor membrane-bounded nucleus. Bacteria are unicellular microorganisms, usually few micrometers in lengths (Croddy, 2004). These microorganisms vary in shapes, as they may range from spirals to rods and spheres. Basically, bacteria are found everywhere on the ...
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World Health Organization Considered To Be One
888 wordsAt present a lot of us are sure that tuberculosis (TB) has gone away; or it does not threaten us today. With the modern development of medicine, it is difficult to believe that this disease from the past causes deaths of many people even now. It is known from practice that a lot of viruses can mutate and are still very dangerous. Tuberculosis (TB) is considered to be one of the most dangerous illnesses in the world. It has active and latent forms. According to the last data, among 9 million new ...
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Global Warming Ten Years
1,103 wordsThe ten most important changes over the next ten years Within Third World countries, multinationals have direct linkages through the products they produce, many flowing to consumers who cannot read; through their workers who are often drawn from urban slums or rural poverty; through the purchase of materials, components, and services from local suppliers. Although multinationals contribute to the overall economic development, as well as manifest corporate good citizenship offering assistance to ...
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Role Of Interpersonal Skills In Healthcare
1,074 wordsRole of interpersonal skills in healthcare The importance of interpersonal skills in healthcare can hardly be overestimated. In the field of nursing, healthcare workers ability to find a psychological contact with patients accounts like no other factor for their professional success. It has to be remembered at all times that the most of hospital patients are quite psychologically unstable and it takes an extra effort, on the part of doctors and nurses, to establish a bond of trust with them. The...
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White Blood Cells Common Cold
519 wordsCommon Cold The common cold is can be a result of over one hundred different types of viruses. Symptoms of the disease include nasal congestion and discharge, sore throat, and coughing. This infectious disease is difficult to treat, the cause of absenteeism in schools and industry, and may become more serious if not treated correctly. The common cold is difficult to treat because it can be caused by more than one hundred different viruses. Also, it contains symptoms identical to those of respira...
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Bubonic Plague Edward Jenner
696 wordsDisease And Vaccinations In The Industrial Revolution Disease And Vaccinations In The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the advent of gross urbanization of factory towns and cities. Due to advancements in areas such as textiles and machinery, many people flocked from the countrysides of Europe (particularly Britain) to cities where they sought work was factory operators and machinists. To accommodate the tremendous influx of people, ch...
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Health Care Services Gay And Lesbian Community
716 wordsProtease inhibitors. For more than a decade, researches and physicians tried to develop new treatment to fight HIV. They came up with some drugs; however, these drugs have proved to be usefulness. They did not cured HIV, but slowed it down. Today, a new class of drugs is providing a New Hope against fighting HIV: protease inhibitors. Protease inhibitors are antiviral drugs. They interrupt the way HIV uses a healthy cell to make more viruses. When HIV enters a normal healthy cell, its concerned w...
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Dec 1997 Internet 2
439 wordsInfections Mononucleosis, also known as mono, is a viral infection that effects mostly adolescents and young adults. It is caused by the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV). This virus is spread mainly by saliva, which gives it the nickname, the kissing disease (Daughtry; InteliHealth). Symptoms usually develop within 30 - 50 days of the person becoming infected with EBV (Daughtry). The first symptoms may include tiredness, fever, headaches, and loss of appetite. After about 3 - 5 days of developing these ...
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Uv Radiation Ozone Depletion
993 wordsOur Radiant Planet- Depletion of the Ozone Layer Ozone is a relatively unstable form of molecular oxygen containing three oxygen atoms produced when upper-atmosphere oxygen molecules are split by ultra violet light. Stratospheric ozone is found in a broad band, extending generally from 15 to 35 km above the earth. Although the ozone layer is surprisingly thin, it acts as a protective shield to the earth, as it filters out most of the harmful solar ultraviolet radiation (in particular UV-B) that ...
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