Week Eight Journal Mrs. C. C. was a sixty-seven-year-old Caucasian woman who presented to the office with bruises on her left forearm and right hand. She had a history of diabetes, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, peripheral vascular disease, and arthritis. Upon completion of her history and physical exam, large dark purplish irregular patches were noted on the left dorsal portion of bilateral forearms. The areas did not blanch and appeared to be isolated areas to bilateral forearms. There were no other signs of bleeding noted or verbalized per Mrs. C. C.…
CC Sore throat and congestion. Lesion on left toe. Puncture wound. Poison ivy.…
The Two Horrific Diseases Why are athletes being diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy? This question is being asked by many athlete fans, parents and current players. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS is an ongoing disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Which causes the person to lose control of the voluntary muscle atrophy. On the other hand, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE is a disease that gradually gets worse in the brain setoff by repetitive concussions.…
Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria is a disease that occurs in the cold. Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria, also known as PCH, mainly affects the hands and feet. In PCH, antibodies attaching themselves to the red blood cells. This gives other proteins in the blood the opportunity to attach as well. As the groups of attachments move throughout the body to warm themselves when in the cold scenarios, the antibodies destroy the red blood cells.…
Jalisco Will Have 61 Checkpoints for Electronic Cattle ID The objective is the eradication of tuberculosis and bovine brucellosis in the state; the 61 REEMO checkpoints will be in 31 municipalities As part of the Strategic Project for the Eradication of Tuberculosis and Bovine Brucellosis in Jalisco, 61 checkpoints of the Electronic Registry of Mobilization (REEMO per its acronym in Spanish) will be located in 31 municipalities in order to make health control more efficient. With this measure, there will be continuity both on the zoosanitary diagnostic tests and the updating of livestock statistics.…
About The deadly disease known as the Black Death rapidly spread across Europe in the years 1346-1353, the terrifying name came seven centuries after its visit and was probably misused Latin word Atara meaning both black and terrible, it was reported that in the late stages of the black death citizens we dragging dead corpses and burying the outside the church with water at the bottom at the grave. The people who buried them would wear a bird like mask that would supposedly stop them from catching the deadly disease, they also put herds and garlic up there nose which would also stop them from getting the bubonic plague but 90% of people died as well from the disease even though they are dead. Origin I might not be possible to find where the Bubonic Plague started but several leads have linked back to Asia as It was such an agricultural developing country at the time, several locations have lead back to Asia been the core flare of the disease which was one of the biggest epidemics in history one of these locations is Lake Issyk-Kul in central Asia there were excavations have revealed a high death rate in the years 1338-1339 they were reported to be working on…
Imagine a time where millions of people died because of a plague that could not be explained. That was the case for many during the Middle Ages throughout cities in Europe. Around the time of 1347, a horrible plague took the lives of millions of people infamously known as The Black Death. People still wonder how did it all begin? And who did it affect?…
The Black Death The Black Death was a very deadly disease, killing many people across Europe. It was also called the Black Plague. The Black Plague was a disease that affected many people that spread across Europe and destroyed their normal living style. There were a lot of symptoms that both men and women would have.…
Maurya et al. examined the prevalence of MDR-TB due to the use of first line drug changing pattern trends within the next 4 years. Current report from Northern India show 3% (new) cases and 13% (acquired) cases. The surveillance program of drug resistant TB and the use of drug resistant testing may help with establishing standard protocol for chemotherapy and allowing for routine assessment of the program. Specimens were collected from both respiratory and non-respiratory route.…
Recently there have been studies to show the positive and negative effects of physical activities. The good things that come from physical activity could be a healthy amount of exercise and can help you do academically better. Thus, this having better chances of you getting into a better college. Either way there are good and bad consequences of physical activities. Basically, what I am trying to explain is that exercise is neither good or bad you just need to be careful how you do it.…
The Black Death was an important moment in human history, as it showed how a poorly understood disease could spread rapidly through an unprepared populace. The Black Death made a great impact on the people of that time, including the fall of the economy. The origins of the Black Death have been unknown until recent years. Gene sequencing has determined that the plague emerged in China more than 2,600 years ago.…
Dr. Rank in the play a Doll House stands out as the one character that is unconcerned with what others think of him. He is also seen as a person who accepts their fate without revealing any emotions or complaining. Unlike the other characters such as Torvald and Nora, Dr. Rank admits to the diseased nature (literally, in his case) of his life. The Disease that Dr. Rank has, "Tuberculosis of the Spine", is actually better illustrated as syphilis. Syphilis is a highly contagious disease spread primarily by sexual activity.…
These symptoms only occur if a person has the active TB disease because, as stated before, symptoms do not occur if a person is only infected with latent TB. Symptoms that may occur are a bad cough, weight loss, loss of appetite, coughing up blood or mucus, weakness, fatigue, a fever, night sweats, or pain in the chest (McIntosh, 2015).…
Mass incarceration, underfunding, overcrowding in prisons, and unjust policies have led to the spread of infectious diseases (HIV, TB) across US prisons mostly impacting African Americans and Latinos. During the years of 1985-1992 the same time the United States was engaged in its war on drugs there were major outbreaks of Tuberculosis across the nation and many stemming from New York prisons for example. Before major discoveries in the field of medicine it was estimated that 80 percent of deaths in prison were caused by TB(Farmer pg.241 2002), but with the evolution of medicine also came the evolution of Tuberculosis’s ability to become resistant to antibiotics. Many prisoners were not receiving the proper treatment or diagnosis for their…
How ironic do you think it would be to simply be out and about with your friends and/or family and very casually walk past someone as they coughed or sneezed? Normally you probably wouldn’t pay them any mind but today and everyday after your going to STOP and wonder, could this person potentially be a carrier of tuberculosis and is there a possibility that my loved ones and I may have contracted it? It is most definatly a possibility. Contracting tuberculosis is simply that easy.…