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Illegal Immigrants Illegal Immigration
737 wordsThere are several problems that seem to plague contemporary America abortion, Iraq, social security however none of these compares to the sweeping epidemic of illegal immigration. According to the 2000 census, an awe-inspiring 8 to 11 million illegal aliens live in the United States. The immigration crisis is founded on the contention that illegal immigration harmfully influences the American workforce. Moreover, these illegal aliens mostly hold jobs that require little to no training, which is ...
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Bubonic Plague Prevention Measures Disease
740 wordsPANDEMICS AND NATIONAL SECURITY According to Wikipedia, there are must three preconditions for the danger of pandemic spread to become actual: the population does not have historical immunity against the new disease, the prolonged incubation period of disease, the highly contagious properties of the disease. Throughout the history we witnessed several pandemics that occurred mainly in Europe and Asia. All of them took a heavy toll onto the native population, sometimes even bringing the whole civ...
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Bird Flu Vs West Nile Virus
1,808 wordsBird flu vs. West Nile Virus Nowadays people all over the word, especially in America and Asia are suffering from dangerous diseases that are communicated from animals to people. Two of them are bird flu are West Nile virus. In this paper these diseases will be described and compared. The disease known as "bird flu" is the infectious disease of birds caused by one of the A type flu virus strains, which is similar to a virus of the usual human flu. Scientists assume that the key role in infection...
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Flu Virus Percent Effective
812 wordsFor 3 decades, scientists have been experimenting with medications that stifle the influenza virus. Two drugs, amantadine and rimantadine, can impede the disease and limit symptoms. However, neither works against one of the two major strains of influenza, and both can be eluded by the evolving virus. In addition, amantadine causes some disagreeable side effects, including confusion and nightmares. A new antiviral zanamivir seems to ease or eliminate many symptoms of either flu strain if taken wi...
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Hiv Aids Hiv Infection
3,090 wordsAs an outsider who shares many values with sincere and faithful Christians, I am troubled with the apparent lack of effectiveness of their most common approaches to the current HIV crisis. The Christian ultimate objective of saving souls is not universally shared, and arguments from that perspective will not be persuasive to a general audience. However, even if we were all to agree to that goal, the current Christian approaches are allowing far to many bodies and souls to be taken by HIV. The ap...
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Hiv Virus Years Ago
907 wordsThe origin of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV- 1), the retrovirus that is the main cause of AIDS, has been a puzzle ever since it was discovered by Barr -Sinoussi and her colleagues in 1983. A chimpanzee named Marilyn that died years ago has helped scientists solve the lingering mystery of the origin of AIDS. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham said that they have conclusive evidence that the HIV virus has spread on at least three separate occasions from chimpanzees t...
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Hong Kong Virus Infection
2,247 wordsClinical Features of Influenza Influenza, commonly called the flu, is caused by viruses that infect the respiratory tract. Compared with most other viral respiratory infections, such as the common cold, influenza infection often causes a more severe illness. Typical clinical features of influenza include fever (usually 100 oF to 103 oF in adults and often even higher in children) and respiratory symptoms, such as cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, as well as headache, muscle aches, and of...
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