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Needles And Syringes Scar Tissue
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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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Aids Epidemic North America
942 wordsIn some parts of the world there are still wars being fought and dictators in power. There are societies which consider themselves at the peak of evolution and progress. They are able to create state of the art automobiles, luxurious homes, efficient and organized industries, complex computerized machinery and atomic weapons. Many societies are governed by a democratic system which herald a belief in freedom. All societies, regardless of their political and economic makeup, are also ruled by a s...
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Genital Herpes Herpes Simplex
328 wordsHerpes Genital is the name of a widespread sexually transmitted disease. It is also generally known simply as herpes. Genital herpes is caused by the herpes simplex virus or the Herpes Simplex Virus 2. HSV- 2 is one of the herpes viruses, a group of viruses that cause a wide variety of diseases (Banikowski, S 1999). HSV- 2 infects only human beings and is transmitted during intimate sexual activity. Infection occurs on or around the sex organs or rectum. The virus then spreads along the nerves t...
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Book Review Of Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain
380 wordsThe Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton is the book I have chose to read for my second book. The book is based on the idea that an extraterrestrial life form would likely not be in the form of a complex multi-celled organism like humans, but more in the form of single celled organisms. A single celled organism could be ten times more deadly then any complex structure; a single celled organism would be a bacterium or a virus. And if bacteria or a virus can live and flourish in the darkness of sp...
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Months Of Age Hepatitis B
655 wordsGeneral Information In the general population, hepatitis B is considered primarily a sexually transmitted disease. It is also transmitted in blood and, prior to the availability of hepatitis B vaccine, health care professionals such as doctors, nurses, and emergency personnel were at risk for contracting hepatitis B. Because it is easily transmitted by blood (one virus particle can cause disease), intravenous drug users who share needles and syringes are at extremely high risk. The other common ...
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Infected With Hiv Living With Hiv
1,825 wordsJust as clearly, experience shows that the right approaches, applied quickly enough with courage and resolve, can and do result in lower national HIV infection rates and less suffering for those affected by the epidemic. Globally, we have learned that if a country acts early enough, a national HIV crisis can be averted. It has also been noted that a country with a very high HIV prevalence rate will often see this rate eventually stabilise, and even decline. This indicates, among other things, th...
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Hiv Infected Women Health Care Providers
689 wordsHence, without this diagnosis, many women are unable to receive health benefits and services available to those with an "official" AIDS diagnosis (12). Further data that show that women with AIDS do not survive as long after diagnosis as men and, once diagnosed, become sick faster and die sooner than men with AIDS (12). Some studies suggest this be attributed to gender differences or to delay diagnosis of women, inferior access to health care and poor utilization of service (12). Utilization of ...
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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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Sexually Transmitted Immune System
1,259 wordsPremarital sex is a huge problem in society today. People everywhere are not waiting until they get married to have sex. People having sex today are not aware of the consequences that come with having sex. They just think it is fun and there are nothing other than fun comes with having sex. Some people tend to have a lot of sex. They say they do it for the satisfaction. They believe sex is fun. It is perceived to be a great thing from the time one is young. Going to elementary school kids always...
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Put In Place Gene Therapy
1,097 wordsGenetic Therapy that focuses on hemophilia Gene therapy is reinserting certain genes that helps deal with genetic diseases. There are three basic forms of this gene therapy. The first is Gene Inactivation Therapy in which the transferred gene neutralizes the proteins and evens out the amount or rids of the defective proteins. Another type is Gene Augmentation Therapy where the original form of the gene or the normal form of the gene is inserted into one of the cell? s chromosomes. This procedure...
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Hepatitis A Vaccine Risk Of Contracting Disease
364 wordsInfectious hepatitis is a contagious liver disease, which is sometimes fatal. Infectious hepatitis is more commonly known as hepatitis A because of the virus that causes it. This disease infects around 143, 000 people in the United States per year. Hepatitis A is found in the feces of an infected person. The virus is spread through person to person contact or through contaminated water and food. Infectious hepatitis has many symptoms that are not always detectable. The main symptoms are fever, c...
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Hepatitis B B Virus
271 wordsThe Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) HBV is a mostly double-stranded DNA virus in the Hepadnaviridae family. HBV causes hepatitis in human and related virus in this family cause hepatitis in ducks, ground squirrels and woodchucks. The HBV genome has four genes: pol, env, pre-core and X that respectively encode the viral DNA-polymerase, envelope protein, pre-core protein (which is processed to viral capsid) and protein X. The function of protein X is not clear but it may be involved in the activation of h...
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Herpes Simplex Genital Herpes
466 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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America On Line Packet Switching
3,778 wordsMany years ago a network was born it only had several computers were connected and now that same network has millions of computers connected at all times, its called the Internet. This paper will explain: the birth, evolution, growth, and how its changed the world as we know it. The audience for this material would be anyone interested in learning more about the Internet. I will offer a guided tour though the evolution of the Internet and explain what this effect has on its growth and popularity...
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Central Nervous System Anabolic Steroids
1,185 wordsDrug and medicine- As our understanding of the chemical basis for biology has grown, we have learned more about how molecules which constitute life. Many scientists are beginning to understand the connections between the physical and psychological matters and the molecules that cause them. As a result, we can now use these new understandings of medicine against any dangerous or unpleasant conditions. For example, depression can be treated with drugs that can revive the brain to its normal level....
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Hong Kong Infected Person
1,584 wordsIn Snow Crash, a novel by Neal Stephenson, Stephenson examines how expanding technology affects a society. He introduces us to a world where a computer virus is altering people s minds, and where they have no control over themselves. He vividly describes how Hiro, the protagonist, must fight the virus to save the future of the world. Technology is expanding everyday. Our society has grown and expanded and has become extremely powerful because of new technologies. People are learning how to use c...
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Credit Card Numbers Directly Or Indirectly
3,444 wordsComputer Crime Computer crimes need to be prevented and halted thought increased computer network security measures as well as tougher laws and enforcement of those laws in cyberspace: Computer crime is generally defined as any crime accomplished through special knowledge of computer technology. All that is required is a personal computer, a modem, and a phone line. Increasing instances of white-collar crime involve computers as more businesses automate and information becomes an important asset...
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Second Stage Sex Partners
784 wordsSyphilis Sexually Transmitted Disease Syphilis Syphilis is an STD caused by a bacterium. Anyone having unprotected sex with an infected person can get syphilis. Syphilis is passed from person to person through direct contact with the syphilis sore, lesion, or moist rash. It can be passed through sexual contact, which includes vaginal, anal and oral sex. Kissing can pass the disease if one of the people has a sore on the lips or in the mouth. Pregnant woman can pass the disease to their babies be...
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Infected With Hiv Aids Epidemic
1,414 wordsTHE SOUTH AFRICA AIDS EPIDEMIC This is a paper on epidemics. I have focused on the ever increasing AIDS epidemic in South Africa. I cover what AIDS is and how it is contracted. The factors causing it to affect South Africa much worse than its surrounding neighbors, and what is happening to combat this modern epidemic It is believed that the HIV virus, which causes AIDS, first originated from Africa decades ago, and today many would agree that this is the place where it is causing the most devast...
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