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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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Moral And Ethical Year Of Life
1,331 wordsSince the first vaccine in 1796 for smallpox, made by Edward Jenner, modern science has managed to create vaccines to give us immunity to many deadly diseases. Vaccines have reduced many diseases and have even eradicated others. However, currently there is evidence that not all vaccines are beneficial and that some may actually be harmful. In this essay, I will discuss about what a vaccine is and how they work. I will also discuss the pros and cons of vaccinations, and show some of the advantage...
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Std Sexually Transmitted Diseases
1,425 wordsSexually transmitted diseases, STD's, also known as Venereal diseases, VD, are spread through sexual contact, and the exchange of body fluids. Anyone who is sexually active can contract an STD. Most STD's don't show symptoms, so you can have, spread and even contract an STD without even knowing it. Some STD's are serious and others can have long term consequences. Some of the consequences could be infertility, certain cancers, and other chronic diseases years after initial infection. If symptoms...
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Low Blood Pressure Beats Per Minute
2,499 words... when they occur in the cardiac cycle as well as by echocardiography and cardiac catheterization. MVP-see Mitral Valve Prolapse. Myocardial Infarction-Death of a region of the muscle supplied by an occluded coronary artery. This is commonly referred to as a 'heart attack. ' A previously stable atherosclerotic plaque in a coronary artery-one that was only partially occluding the artery and producing either a stable anginal pattern or no symptoms at all-ruptures its surface due to shear stress ...
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Chicken Pox Viral Infection
1,069 wordsChicken Pox Media CHICKEN POX Chicken Pox is a viral infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus, a type of herpes virus. It is contracted by contact with actual lesions or by respiratory secretions and there is a 10 - 21 day incubation period during which your child is developing the illness but does not show any symptoms and is not contagious (until the very last 1 or 2 days before the pox appear. ). Once the vesicles show up there are likely to be many more on the way for between 3 and 7 m...
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Spinal Cord
806 wordsGuillain-Barre Syndrome, (also called acute idiopathic polyneuritis, and Landry s ascending paralysis) is a disorder in which the body s immune system attacks part of the peripheral nerves, those outside the brain and spinal cord. Symptoms of this disorder include weakness or tingling in the legs, sometimes the weakness or tingling spread to the arms and upper body. These symptom s then increase in intensity, until the muscles cannot be used at all and the patient is almost totally paralyzed, mo...
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