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Central Nervous System Bodys Immune System
752 wordsMultiple Sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system, the nerves that make up the brain and spinal cord. This disease is commonly known as MS. Its cause is unknown, it cannot be prevented, and neither a cure or a safe and effective treatment has been able to halt its progression so far. It is not fatal, and much progress is being made in treating symptoms and identifying mechanisms that trigger this disease. Sclerosis comes from the Greek word skiers, which means hard. Multiple sclerosi...
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Bubonic Plague Black Plague
1,135 wordsThe Black Plague was one of the worst and deadliest diseases known to man in the history of the world. The Plague originated in Italy and quickly spread throughout Europe killing more than one hundred thirty seven million people. Early treatments for the Plague were often bizarre but eventually came in a vaccine and through isolation. The symptoms of the Black Plague were swellings called buboes and dried blood under the skin that appeared black. The Black Plague changed the world in several dif...
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Needles And Syringes Scar Tissue
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Cases Of Aids University Of Alabama
1,456 wordsDebate around the origin of AIDS has sparked considerable interest and controversy since the beginning of the epidemic. However, in trying to identify where AIDS originated, there is a danger that people may try and use the debate to attribute blame for the disease to particular groups of individuals or certain lifestyles. The first cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in 1981, but they provide little information about the source of the disease. There is now clear evidence that the disease AIDS is ...
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Vaccine University Virus
386 wordsBiographical Sketch of James Dewey Watson James D. Watson is best known for his discovery of the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), for which he shared with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. They proposed that the DNA molecule takes the shape of a double helix, an elegantly simple structure that resembles a gently twisted ladder. The rails of the ladder are made of alternating units of phosphate and the sugar deoxyribose; the rungs are each ...
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Chicken Pox Herpes Virus
685 wordsChickenpox is a very mild disease and it isnt very harmful. You will need to know some things about the disease like: what it is, how you can get it, where it is located on the body, what treatments are used to cure it, who can get it, how and if it can be prevented, and what the long-term effects are and if it is life-threatening. You may already know about chickenpox, but you will find out more information as it is being explained in this report. Chickenpox is a very contagious disease caused ...
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Central Nervous System Salk Vaccine
360 wordsPOLIOMYELITIS- an infectious virus of the central nervous system. SYMPTOMS- FATIGUE, HEADACHE, FEVER, SORE THROAT, MUSCLE PAIN, VOMITING, CONSTIPATION, STIFFNESS OF NECK (MENINGITIS), MUSCLE PARALYSIS, AFFECTED- CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, NERVE TISSUE (MOTOR NEURONS), BRAIN, LEGS, ARMS, MUSCLES, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM, STOMACH & THROAT (THE VIRUS ENTRY - Polio is excreted in feces and spreads in contaminated water, food, hands and eating utensils to unaffected patients. The virus enters its victims in ...
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Animal Experimentation Animal Testing
574 wordsAre we to let concern for the rights of pests cost human lives? The answer is a simple one. Animal research, although often the subject of debate is a positive thing. Without it, where would the world be? Tests certainly cannot be done on humans, for what human will risk his or her life if there is a more convenient and sensible option. Yes the animals endure pain and, at times, lose their lives but new advances are being made in that field as well. Studies are always being done to ensure the ma...
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Preventive Measures Tap Water
893 wordsIntroduction: Typhoid fever is a bacterial infection of the intestinal tract and occasionally the bloodstream, and is from the Salmonella species. Risk of infection is greatest for travellers to developing countries who will have prolonged exposure to potentially contaminated food and beverages. Typhoid fever is a bacterial infection of the intestinal tract and occasionally the bloodstream. Symptoms: Fever as high as 103 to 104 F (39 to 40 C). , Severe headache, Insomnia, Nose bleeding, Either d...
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Humans And Animals Pain And Suffering
675 wordsThe ability for scientists to give humans and animals longer, healthier lives is not a vicious inhumane crime; it is a miracle. Animal research is the key to preventing pain and suffering. Vaccines inhibit children from becoming crippled and disfigured by infectious diseases while suffering in the shadows of death. When speaking of the Diphtheria vaccine, The Research Defense Society states, .".. Before vaccination for Diphtheria was developed... as many as one in ten people, mostly children, ca...
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Uv Radiation Skin Cancer
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Adverse Reactions Side Effects
969 words... r every year. Also we need to consider is that we already know that over ten million vaccinations are given every year. When a child receives his or her vaccinations before the age of one, they would receive 25 shots. Twenty-five shots! And most times more than one shot is given at a time. You take this healthy child and inject some foreign material into the body in hopes that it will not do any harm your infant. With a quick calculation, we see that over 400, 000 fit children would have to ...
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Biological Warfare Agents General Accounting Office
1,289 words... of-the-art equipment that could have been used for agent production. No evidence, to date, has been established for munitions development and / or agent weapons. The experience of the U. N. team emphasizes the difficulty of locating a Smoking Gun relative to BW programs. This type of program is much easier to hide from inspection than either chemical or nuclear programs. USAMARIID (2001) U. S. Offensive Program The United States initiated a review of the potential of BW in 1941 - 1942, imple...
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Animal Experimentation Animal Testing
1,944 words... for pregnancy was to inject a urine sample into a rabbit. After injected, the rabbit would be killed to see if the ovaries were swollen; if so, the woman was pregnant. As indicated, there have been some strides for the search for alternatives to animal testing, but without animal testing the environment will also suffer. The mink is a good example of how testing is helping the environment. Mink are highly susceptible to a raft of environmental chemicals, particularly PCBs (Polychlorinated Bi...
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Vaccinate Your Child Strain Polio Children
978 wordsChoose Better Health Parents today are to quick to run to the doctor looking for some kind of drug to give their kid every time they are ill. When you have a newborn child you are told that the child must be vaccinated to live a normal healthy childhood, but this statement is not true because there are natural ways to treat colds and other flu s by letting your body do the work. Your body is a self-regulating, self-healing organism if you re nervous system is allowed to function drug free. Today...
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Months Of Age Seven Days
474 wordsWhat is pertussis? Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a highly contagious disease involving the respiratory tract. It is caused by a bacterium that is found in the mouth, nose and throat of an infected person. Approximately 100 to 200 cases are reported annually in New York State. Who gets pertussis? Pertussis can occur at any age. Although most of the reported cases occur in children under five years, 50 percent of these are in children under one year of age. How is pertussis spread? Pertussis is...
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Loss Of Appetite Nausea Vomiting
1,628 wordsTHE PRIORITY OF HEPATITIS B VACCINATIONS IN CANADA The increase in the number of children attending schools in Canada and the potential for transmission of viral infection in that environment is a problem of great size. A virus is defined as a morbid principle, or a poisonous venom, especially one capable of being introduced into another person or animal in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Due to their miniscule size, it was not until 1885 that Adolf Mayer observed their existence in the m...
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Cases Of Aids University Of Alabama
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Spinal Cord Rabid Dog
887 wordsThe final and Rabies Rabies The final and certainly most famous success of Pasteur's research was the development of a vaccine against rabies or hydrophobia as it is also known. The disease has always had a hold on the public imagination and has been looked upon with horror. It evokes visions of raging victims, bound and howling, or asphyxiated between two mattresses (Duclaux). The treatments applied to victims were as horrible as the supposed symptoms: this included cauterizing the bite wounds ...
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Animal Control Officer Local Animal Control Officer Rabies
709 wordsWhat is Rabies? Rabies Rabies What is Rabies? Who gets Rabies? Rabies is a viral disease of humans and other mammals. It is most common in carnivores. The word rabies comes from the word hydrophobia, fear of water. Rabies is a potentially deadly disease. There are many things you can do to prevent yourself from meeting rabies. The most important thing to do, is to be certain your pets have updated vaccinations. Your pets can first get their vaccinations when they are three months old. After that...
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