Essay Examples on Infectious Disease

Smallpox is a highly infectious disease with a mortality rate of 30% which is caused by a poxvirus known as variola. This is the most virulent member of the genus Orthopoxvirus. The origins of smallpox are unknown but evidence of infection was found in 3000...

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 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...

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...

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...

The primary for the pork tapeworm, also known as taenia solium, are pigs. Eggs or gravid proglottids are consumed by pigs amongst vegetation. Eggs hatch invade the intestinal wall, and into muscle tissue. This tissue will be consumed by humans (intermediate hosts), who, by ingesting...

Wild relatives of domestic dogs and cats flourish in a slim body, but new research shows that so-called “”raw”” diets for pets are at risk of exposure to parasites and bacteria.Moreover, the reproduction of pets can put humans at risk for this infection.Pet foods and...

If you are suffering from a serious bout of athlete’s foot, it is something that you should really be taking care of immediately. Athlete’s foot is a fungal infection that is caused by dermatophytes. Also known medically as tinea pedis, athlete’s foot starts as the...

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...

When we hear the word virus, what primarily comes to our mind is a very small organism which causes infections. We also remember that they can only grow in the body of other living materials. Yet another annoying detail is that they can infect every...

To begin, Polio had been one of the many, destructive diseases that had no cure in the time of the 1930s, causing fear amongst people, children and adults alike. It was a dreadful illness that troubled the nation, and caused many people, children and adults...

Introduction Leptospirosis is considered both as an occupational and globally important zoonotic disease. The spread of the disease depends upon the interaction between the humans and mammalian reservoirs, the epidemiology reflects the interaction between the humans and mammalian reservoirs. The organism responsible for leptospirosis is...

Introduction Risk communication is the sharing of ideas and knowledge between two parties about the nature, purpose and control of the risk. Risk communication in public health means the involvement of audience and responding to the question and concern as well as providing the important...

The main important group of biting Dipterans are the mosquitoes. Mosquitoes have long slender body, needle shaped mouth parts and legs. The wings sometimes have discernible patterns of scales. Some species of mosquitoes bite in the evening or morning and at night and some mosquitoes...

A study was carried out 2011, to highlight the prevalence of HCAI and the antimicrobial use in Irish long-term care facilities (LTCF). This was conducted to inform national LTCD policy and to plan for the future of HCAI schemes. With earlier discharges being carried out...

My book is “Trust me I am a junior doctor” is written by Max Pemberton, published in 2008. The book talks about junior doctor max and his junior doctor colleagues and their struggle, challenge of the cases that have been through their journey at first...

More than two million people or a third of all world men come down with “Mycobacterium tuberculosis,” a bacterium that causes tuberculosis. It is known that tuberculosis is the seventh causes of death in the world. That disease kills 1,77 million people in 2007 and...

Bacterial biofilms now represent the dominant bacterial growth lifestyle in different habitats including natural and clinical environments. Bacterial cells switch between the free-living planktonic mode and the biofilm growth mode, through multiple mechanisms that include adhesion to a substratum, increasing their aggregation into microcolonies and...

A new report confirmed the first case of human infection of the rat variant of the hepatitis E virus. The case has been identified in Hong Kong and reported by one of the top universities in the country. The case was confirmed by the University...