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Coronary Heart Disease American Lung Association
1,047 words"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were a little over 300, 000 deaths related to AIDS in 1997. That's like taking half the people in Baltimore county and making them disappear. Another 75, 000 died from alcohol. In addition to that, 20, 000 died from illegal drug use, and 25, 000 died from motor vehicle crashes. But if you were to add those numbers up, they still wouldn't equal the amount of deaths that were related to tobacco. In fact, each year, smoking kills m...
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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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World Health Organization People With Aids
1,735 wordsThesis: The AIDS and HIV viruses are getting worse in the United States and the rest of the world. Although more people die of heart disease and cancer each year, AIDS has become the health problem people fear the most. Much of the fear comes from ignorance and misunderstanding. Education is the most effective tool against AIDS. It is more important than ever for young people to learn the facts about AIDS. Many teenagers don't know anyone who has AIDS. It is hard for them to believe they are at ...
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High Risk Ten Percent
1,171 words... sts. This attitude sometimes causes people to make harsh judgments about homosexual individuals. The AIDS epidemic, to which many male homosexuals are falling victim, may be a major contributing factor to antigua prejudices. As more gays have identified themselves publicly, they have also formed more public organizations. There are gay journals, gay newspapers, and gay political groups, These groups have formed an alliance; they support candidates for public office, fight legal battles in su...
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Spread Of Disease Infectious Diseases
2,199 words... ling population? Why are these diseases emerging, and in so many different forms? There are six main causes for the emergence of infectious diseases. One of the major reasons is the rise in international travel and trade. The world is very accessible now, with airplanes and boats, a virus that is in a very isolated situation may find itself in a position to spread around the world. You could be in an African village where people may be dying like flies. Twenty four hours later youre in downt...
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Centers For Disease Control Rift Valley
1,343 wordsWhat is the stake of the American People and the Government by International Agencies to control Infectious Disease in Developing Countries? More people are at risk of infectious diseases than at any other time on history. Infectious diseases are worldwide problem requiring worldwide attention. Infectious diseases can weaken the strength of a nation's resources. In developing nations this poses even a greater threat. Diseases are threatening the economic stability of many developing nations. 50,...
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Infected With Hiv Men And Women
1,115 wordsH 2 >What is AIDS? AIDS is the more evolved, life threatening, form of HIV. AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. The name comes from the fact that HIV severely damages the immune system, the bodys most important defense against disease.
History of AIDS Scientists are not certain how, when, or where the AIDS virus evolved and first infected people. Researchers have shown that HIV- 1 and HIV- 2 are more closely related to simian immunodeficiency viruses, which i...
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The Of Tuberculosis Among Low Income People
1,609 words... aged 20 to 45 years. Age adjustment was accounted for using the direct method with 1990 U. S. population statistics as follows: aged 15 - 24 (80, 596, 000); aged 45 - 46 (46, 710, 000) (Tuberculosis control law 1993). iii. data analysis and results 1860 cases were explored in both South Central and Harlem. Both districts are low-income, medically under-served communities with large numbers of immigrants such as Hispanics, blacks or Asian-Pacific Islanders. The data was evaluated with the obj...
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Centers For Disease Control Disease Control And Prevention
856 wordsWhile the federal governments investment in treatment and research is helping people with HIV/AIDS live longer and more productive lives, HIV continues to spread at a staggering national rate of over 40, 000 new infections per year. The following data represent the total reported AIDS cases in Georgia through year-end 2002: 1998 8, 785 1999 9, 663 2000 10, 290 2001 11, 269 2002 12, 320 For 2003, according to the information given on July 7 th, there were 26, 373 cases (1). It is the position of ...
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Commit Suicide Suicide Prevention
1,722 wordsSuicide Abstract: Suicide is one of the most important social problems. Suicide has no demographic anchors: it occurs in all nationalities, races, age groups, cultures and professions. The paper provides with the statistical profile of suicide, examines social attitudes toward suicide, social and psychoanalytical approaches and dwells on general facts and myths. Outline: The Statistical Profile of Suicide Social Attitudes towards Suicide Durkheim and Suicide Psychoanalytical Approach Suicide: Fa...
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Fast Food Restaurants Junk Food
1,447 wordsWHAT IS JUNK FOOD? Junk food is defined in Elook. org as food that tastes good but is high in calories having little nutritional value. This definition paints junk food as something that has no importance to everyday lives. Some examples of junk food as cited in Answers. com are soft drinks, hamburgers, potato chips, and French fries. These foods are high on calories. But calories are not bad for the health according to an article reviewed by Dr. Mary L. Gavin. She cites, for example, that our b...
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York New York Control And Prevention
2,030 wordsHIV/AIDS: Why Won't it Stop? AIDS is a very complicated infection. It is not only infecting individuals, but it also infecting our society. Until a cur is rach it will continu to page human society. No person will vr b truly saf. Our government nds to kp spending mony on research to develop a cur for AIDS. To fully understand why our government should continu to send its funds on AIDS research on must first understand AIDS. Noone actually knows where AIDS comes from. Americans say that it origin...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Centers For Disease Control
1,656 wordsAIDS in Prisons With infectious diseases such as hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) so prevalent in correctional settings, it is appropriate and timely that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) presented a workshop on the issue. "Infectious Disease in Corrections: A Centers for Disease Control Perspective" was moderated by Rob Lyerla, an epidemiologist for CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases. (Cass 34). In the past 20 years, the jail people in the United Stat...
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