Essay Examples on Infectious Disease

In our modern lives nowadays, due to climate, dust from the environment and diseases, many people are now facing with health issues and infectious diseases. Many proponents say that vaccination is safe and one of the greatest advance science prevention health developments in the 20th...

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has affected millions of people worldwide, more especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The number of infections that occurred in infants in 2014 was estimated at 220, 000. Out of this, approximately ninety mine percent of the infections in infants are acquired...

Polio also known as poliomyelitis was an infectious disease caused by a virus that occupied the throat and intestinal tract. It spread through person-to-person contact along with spreading through feces, and sneezing from an infected person. Polio affected humanity throughout recorded history, it attacks the...

Abstract The purpose of this essay is to review the past, understanding of the present, and see what the future holds. In addition, to address the importance of vaccines and the infectious diseases that can cause an outbreak in the public health of the country....

Introduction Infectious diseases are the major cause of mortality in recent years. The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that about 13 million deaths worldwide are attributed to infectious diseases. The majority of these deaths are related to the people living in third world countries....

In the early 1900s, New York state was a hotspot for outbreaks of typhoid fever. George Sober, a sanitary engineer, attributed these outbreaks to one woman, a cook by the name of Mary Mallon. Mallon was the first described case of a healthy carrier of...

Human papilloma virus (HPV) can appear just about anywhere on the body. The most common locations are mouth, anus and genitals where moist mucous membranes exist. Some common symptoms are warts, small, big, white, beige or brown skin growths and even several different types of...

An infectious disease, also known as transmissible disease or communicable disease, is illness resulting from the invasion of an organism’s body tissues by disease-causing agents, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agents and the toxins they produce. Infectious diseases, including...

Nosocomial infections are infections acquired in the hospital or other health care facilities that were absent at the time of the client’s admission. It is also known as hospital acquired infections. It includes those infections that become symptomatic after the client is discharged as well...

The Plague is one of the most recognizable and culturally significant diseases in the world. Plague (or Yersinia Pestis) has become so ubiquitous that the term colloquially refers to any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and is incredibly deadly. Yet, even given its great impact...

In the late 2000 – 2010, Canada had to go through an outbreak of infectious diseases (SARS and H1N1). They both cause respiratory illness but differ with regards to a variety of properties. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is a respiratory illness that first situated...

Firstly, in this essay, the author will be discussing the clinical and theoretical methods of diagnosing and managing pediatric gastroenteritis. Secondly, the author will also be discussing professional values for NHS staff when caring for patients and their families, such as the NMC code. Furthermore,...

Millions of people are chronically infected with HBV worldwide despite the use of an effective vaccine. Those infected are at a high risk of developing liver cancer. Although current therapeutic regimens exist that can efficiently suppress viral replication of HBV, the virus has a unique...

Several epidemiological studies show that obesity and related metabolic dysfunctions are associated with an increased incidence and mortality rates for various types of tumors. For example, it has been shown that obesity and type 2 diabetes are among the risk factors associated with the onset...

On 27th August 2014 Mr. Abhayomi, a businessman was found dead in his hotel room in the heart of London, unrecognizable, lying in a pool of blood and faeces. The doctors had.t seen such a death in medical history. The incident was covered in a...

Louse-borne typhus is one of the oldest pernicious diseases, that has been haunting mankind since ages. Known by the many names such as “camp fever”, “war fever”, “jail fever” and “tabarillo” and confused with many other fevers and diseases, it was only in the late...

In this review, we mainly focus on persistence colonization of Helicobacter pylori in the human gut. In recent times we have come across some novel strategies used by this bacterium can be a cause of prolonged existence in human or evolution with another bacterium to...

A plague is an infectious disease caused by Yersinia Pestis, a bacterium that is transmitted from rats to humans by the “oriental rat flea” (Xenopsylla cheopis).Transmission of Yersinia Pestis is possible through any of the following scenarios: droplet contact (coughing or sneezing upon another person),...

The biggest problem with mosquitoes though, are the diseases they carry. This is why getting a mosquito killer is a good idea. One from a number of mosquito transmitted diseases that is very serious is yellow fever. Yellow fever is a viral infection disease which...

Yellow fever virus is Flavi virus. It is acute febrile vector borne disese that occur in Africa and South America. Last century there was an large epidemics in Caribbean and North America and in Ethiopia in 1960- 1962. There are seven genotypes of virus, five...

Aim: The present study was undertaken to study the incidence of microbial spectra in gallstone disease and effect of bacteriobilia on wound infection. Introduction: Biliary calculus disease is commonest disorder affecting the gastrointestinal tract and remains the most commonly encountered cause of morbidity. There is...

Introduction The thired and the last class of microbial pathogens is protozoa that have been studied from extreme conditions like marine and fresh water, damp soils, dry sand etc (Kanwal K. ana Arslan M. 2016). Giardiasis is an illness caused by protozon Giardia lamblia.It is...

Introduction Diseases are ordered into transferable (or irresistible) and non-transferableforms where in each sort has its own distinctive causes and is transmitted in an unexpected way. One of the principle contrasts between these two sorts is the transferable ailments can be transmitted starting with one...

The largest country in South America and the fifth largest nation in the world. Brazil, is known for its hot, arid, and humid dense forests, including the Amazon, the world’s biggest jungle in the north. Not only that but the immense plateaus, and long coastal...

Abstract H1N1 Swine flu is a subtype of the influenza A virus, which differs from other strains (H1N1, H1N2) in the surface glycoproteins hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase. Primarily, it is thought to have the spread of this novel virus through respiratory droplets; Coughing, Sneezing, touching respiratory...

Research progress In the present study, GCF level of IL-35 and clinical parameters were evaluated in chronic periodontitis patients with and without type 2 diabetes before and after SRP. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to compare the GCF IL-35...

Have you ever heard of Poliomyelitis? Well, if you haven’t you may have heard of it being referred to as polio. Polio was one of the most feared diseases in the early twentieth century. This disease was known for paralyzing hundreds of thousands of children...

Apple Cider vinegar is considered the Holy Grail of beauty products because of its numerous health and beauty benefits. Apple Cider Vinegar is also known as one of the best cure for sinus infections. Although there are many remedies for sinus infection available in the...

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is often considered the “Gold Standard” for molecular diagnostics. It is a specific, sensitive, powerful tool that amplifies a minute sample of genetic material, either in the form of DNA or RNA, in a short period of time. It mimics DNA...

Polio. A word that caused havoc. A word that brought immense fear to mind. A word that people lost their loved ones to. During the 20th century, the polio virus was rampant all over the world. The virus paralyzed children in the hundreds of thousands...