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A Study Of Lyme Disease In New Jersey
1,296 wordsJust by living in the world, human beings are susceptible to disease. Many diseases -- for example, influenza and tuberculosis -- are spread when bacteria or viruses pass from one person to another. Other diseases are acquired genetically from ones parents, such as cystic fibrosis. Some diseases, such as heart disease and osteoporosis, develop as humans age. Others humans get from the environment; examples are lead poisoning and skin cancer due to exposure to the sun. Finally, there are diseases...
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Medieval Europe Cultural Change
878 wordsThe Black Death discusses the causes and results of the plague that devastated medieval Europe. It focuses on the many effects it had on the culture of medieval Europe and the possibility that it expedited cultural change. I found that Robert S. Gottfried had two main theses in the book. He argued that rodent and insect life cycles, as well as the changing of weather systems affect plague. He claimed that the devastation plague causes is partly due to its perpetual recurrences. Plague ravaged Eu...
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Medium Sized Large Amount
1,149 wordsSavannah monitors (Various exanthematicus) are medium-sized monitor lizards that are usually readily available in most reptile specialty stores and from breeders. They are intelligent (for lizards), beautiful, usually tame pretty easily, and do not grow as large as some monitors. Savannahs usually are less expensive to purchase than some of the other monitor species. Savannah monitors hail from Africa, and they are also listed as a "threatened" species in their natural habitat, due to the pet tr...
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Extremely Sensitive Animal Kingdom
706 wordsSmall, mainly carnivorous animal, Felis cards, member of the family Felidae. It is a popular household pet and is useful for killing mice and rats. A cat's body is extremely flexible; its skeleton contains more than 230 bones and its pelvis and shoulders are loosely attached to its spine. The cat's powerful musculature helps its great leaping ability and speed. The cat's sharp, hooked, retractile claws are sheathed in a soft, leathery pocket at the end of each toe and are extended for fighting, ...
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Embryonic Stem Cells Blood Sugar Levels
1,188 wordsIntroduction Type 1 Diabetes mellitus, formerly known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is a disease that is defied as a metabolism disorder. It affects about 5 - 10 % of the diabetic population estimating to about 4. 9 people worldwide. In this type of diabetes, the onset of elevated blood sugar levels usually begin abruptly in a fairly dramatic way before the age of 30 and about half of all the cases appear during childhood. The cause of diabetes type 1 is an autoimmune destruction in whi...
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Natural Enemies South America
708 wordsCapybara The capybara is the largest rodent in the world. The capybara's name comes from the native people of South America. It means 'master of the grass. ' The scientific name of the capybara is hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, which means 'water pig' in Greek. Capybaras have been in existence since the Pleistocene epoch. Their ancient ancestors were rodents that lived about sixty million years ago. The average size of a capybara is four feet in length and two feet in height. This is about the size ...
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Hanta Pulmonary Syndrome Hanta Pulmonary Virus
420 wordsHanta Pulmonary Syndrome The Hanta Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) is a disease that has emerged in North America only recently. Its source is a virus carried by rodents, particularly the deer mouse, and transmitted by direct contact with their droppings. Symptoms appear within the one to six weeks of initial exposure, and initially include muscle aches, fever, and other flu-like symptoms. After a while, the victim may experience shortness of breath and coughing resulting from decreased circulation in ...
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Deadly Disease 1 Html
1,052 wordsHand Virus As A Deadly Disease Hand virus is a dangerous and often deadly disease that must be guarded against. If proper precautions are not taken, hand virus could lead to a nationwide outbreak causing many deaths. While there are a few cases of hand virus reported each year, the consequences of coming down with the disease dictates that the U. S. set up certain safeguards to educate the population on how to protect themselves. Even though research is being done on hand virus and its related i...
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Cell Membrane Host Cell
999 wordsLASSA FEVER; AN OLD WORLD ARENAVIRUS ABSTRACT A brief summary of lassa fever, its history, pathology and effects on the indigenous populations. Also, lassa fever in the context of newly emerging diseases. LASSA FEVER On January 12, 1969, a missionary nun, working in the small town of Lassa, Nigeria, began complaining of a backache. Thinking she had merely pulled a muscle, she ignored the pain and went on about her business. After a week, however, the nurse had a throat so sore and so filled with...
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Age Of Exploration Bubonic Plague
943 wordsWhen I look at the conflicts that medieval European people faced and the conflicts that modern people face, I see a huge difference. Our government, economics, science, mobility, art, literacy and health are very different. Some aspects of religion are different, but not many. The Black Death and feudalism are some major contributions to the medieval times. The Black Death is known as a beneficial divider between the central and Middle Ages. The changes are numerous. They include the introductio...
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South American Field Harvest Mouse Mice
511 wordsA mouse is a small rodent. The word mice or mouse is sometimes used to refer to any small rodent. The word mouse has no exact meaning in classification systems. There are numerous amounts of mice in the world, but for convenience they are often grouped as the Eurasian mice and the American mice. Most mice live in human habitats. Most, but not all, of the rodents called mice are members of the rodent subclass Myomorpha, meaning mouse like rodents. There are around 1, 100 species in this group and...
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Quot Quot Poetry Quot
2,275 wordsKenneth C. Mason " Buteo Regalis" is a brief but startlingly vivid insight... an epiphanic moment... [I]ts object is to give a potent sense of the raw wild strength in nature. It is just its accuracy in description which is so impressive in this poem. Lines two and three " What sense first warns? / The winging is unheard, / Unseen but as distant motion made whole... " are remarkable for their realism and their apparent ease in handling a very difficult perception. Lines five ...
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Bubonic Plague Pneumonic Plague
2,080 wordsBubonic Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. People usually get plague from the bite of a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an infected animal. Millions of people in Europe died from plague in the Middle Ages, when flea-infested rats inhabited human homes and places of work. Today, modern antibiotics are effective against the plague, but if an infected person does not seek treatment promptly, the disease...
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