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Epidemiology And Infectious Disease Prevention: West Nile Virus

individual who had West Nile virus (Altman, 2002). The disease, which spreads by a bite from an infected mosquito, can be inflict...

West Nile Virus Overview

cant be ruled out either"(Flatow, 2002). The pathogen, Peterson explains, can cause swelling in the brain which can lead to conv...

The Diverse Disease of Dengue, Plague, Malaria, and the West Nile Virus

malaria first received widespread attention when it began to affect returning servicemen that had contracted the disease while se...

Dangers of the West Nile Virus to Humans and Animals

horses - just as susceptible as their human counterparts. Symptoms in people include flu-like discomfort, which may turn into ase...

Deaths of Long Island Lobsters

to make the public think twice about spraying again. Lobsters began dying in great numbers. Lobstermen in Connecticut first began ...

West Nile Virus Spraying and its Health Impacts

done with the safety of residents in mind. However, while the decision to spray was made to protect potential cases of encephaliti...

Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

n.d.). The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) explains that "Ultimately, health promotion activit...

Overview of Ebola Hemorrhagic Virus

In ten pages the hemorrhagic virus is examined in terms of its history and how this infectious disease manifests itself. There ar...

A look at the Herpes Viruses

subfamily have longer reproductive cycles and a more narrow host range. In this group, infected "cells often become enlarged. Lat...

Balancing the Risks of Using Malathion to Reduce the Occurrence of West Nile Virus

When making decisions regarding risk reduction, potential risks will need to be assessed from all potential actions. The writer us...

Tables on Acute, Infectious, and Chronic Disease

1). Further, inadequate utilization of screening tests contribute to approximately half of the deaths resulting from cancer of th...

HVC or Hepatitis C

Although certain populations are more prone to the disease, because young people are inordinately affected, this is a problem that...

Anthrax Cause and Response

The disease known as Anthrax is caused by the highly infectious microorganism Bacillus anthracis. The bacteria...

Infectious Disease Control and Precautions That Are Standard Based

are theoretically viable, but there is actually no evidence to support the claim that UPs will actually reduce the number of expos...

Rationing Scarce Resources Catholic Ethics

We are once again faced with a challenge similar to HIV. A contagious, infectious virus has killed thousands in Africa and is now ...

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

a consequence rather than a cause (NursingLink, 2007). There has also been some evidence that the Epstein-Barr virus may cause Ho...

An Article Critique of 'Protection Against Ischemic Heart Disease In The Belgian Physical Fitness Study: Physical Fitness Rather Than Physical Activity?'

which takes place during ones leisure time. Noting that it is not easy to establish a method for controlling self-selection into ...

STDs and VD

In five pages this paper discusses venereal disease and other types of sexually transmitted diseases including genital herpes, Hep...

Pediatric Perinatal Respiratory Care and Respiratory Syncytial Virus

In five pages this paper considers pediatric perinatal respiratory care in an infection control discussion that focuses upon respi...

The Benefits and Detriments of the Kaplan-Meier Method and a Comparison of K-M with the use of Standard Life Tables

with the life table times (cut-points used to define the intervals) taken to be equal to the times of events in the cohort" (Woodw...

Unwise Chemical Usage by Governments

resolving these. People in fact are faced with the threat of chemicals seeping into the land or water. Cancer clusters have sprun...

LOVE Computer Virus Attack of 2000

in the emails were exactly the same. Additionally, the emails were coming from software developers in the office, five emails in a...

An Argument for Vaccination Against Cervical Cancer

eradicate them. The defense response staged by our immune system includes the production of antibodies, blood proteins th...

Health Issues Following Hurricane Katrina

warns that anyone with an open wound or any cut, even the slightest should avoid brackish water and even seawater because this a c...

Article Analysis: "Evolution of Infectious Disease"

move through populations of individuals) to consider "how the characteristics that traditional epidemiology has identified to be i...

Colorectal Cancer Prevention and Management

to the health care system, or that everyone should be screened just in case, but rather, that the testing can be uncomfortable, an...

Heart Disease and Serum Cholesterol

contends that conflicting results occurred in such studies because of "inadequate sample size". The article references the World ...

Emergent and Reemergent Infectious Diseases

pathogen (National Institutes of Health, 1999). The most concerning infectious agents are those that are both highly contagious ...

Early Hunters, Gatherers, and Infectious Diseases

is thought that these animals stayed with the humans, slowly enabling herds to develop. With so many theories, there really is no...

Economic Aspects of Lung Cancer

In six pages lung cancer is examined in terms of treatment, recent developments, and prevention with the emphasis upon the disease...