Polio Virus Introduction The polio virus which causes poliomyelitis in humans is an enterovirus which belongs to the picornavirus (small, RNA) family. Polio virus is rapid, acid-resistant, stable, highly tissue specific and consists of a single-stranded, positive RNA. Polio virus is able to reside in the throat or intestinal tract of humans. Poliomyelitis is a highly contagious infectious disease which has three strains, poliovirus 1 (PV1), PV2 and PV3. Polio virus, although rare in developed
Imagine having a deadly disease and can’t do anything about it. Well this imagination is a sad reality for some people. Many people around the world are hit with diseases that have no cure. The Ebola virus has no vaccine or cure so people who get it have to fight or die. Many other diseases have no cure and kill many people each year. For instance Aids and Cancer have no vaccines or cure. Theses diseases kill a lot of people each year and they can’t be stopped unless a cure is found. What would happen
study may show only increased blood flow to the adjacent epididymis and testis and possibly a reactive hydrocele, resulting in the misdiagnosis of acute epididymitis or epididymoorchitis. Torsion of the appendage is a self-limited condition that responds best to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications and comfort measures such as limited activity and a warm compress. As the appendage infarcts and necroses, the pain resolves. Such torsion can recur because five appendages potentially may experience
Donald Trump is a highly successful business titan, real estate mogul, reality television personality, and now a 2016 presidential candidate. Since announcing his candidacy this past June, he has been very loquacious on his views pertaining to foreign policy. He takes a very realist approach when addressing these issues. His views are very much in line with the belief that the international political arena is not dominated by altruistic ideologies, but rather nation-states that are self-interested
Since Egyptians described diabetes in their manuscript and Indian physicians identified diabetes around 1500 BC, lots of discoveries are made regarding the pathogenesis and the treatment of diabetes: new technologies are invented and used in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, type-1 and type-2 diabetes are differentiated through time, lots of researches are done to find out a lasting solution to the devastating disease. Regardless of all the effort made diabetes type-1 remains incurable. It
attacks the nervous system”. Polio is most commonly found in children younger than five but can also be found in adults as well.This viral disease is caused by the poliovirus that may come in one of three different forms; all of which are part of the enterovirus genus. This virus is spread through direct person-to-person contact, contact with infected mucus or phlegm from the nose or mouth, and contact with infected feces. There are three types of the polio disease which are subclinical infections, non-paralytic
such as iron deficiency anemia and intestinal worms, due to the lack of nutrition from the food they eat and the poor hygiene conditions they live in. Untreated water in rural areas also leads to health problems such as hepatitis A, rotavirus and enterovirus. Mental health is also a growing issue in China, as failing to fulfill one’s duties within the family and society can lead to common symptoms of psychological distress. It is a huge concern as there are huge social and economic costs. Currently
Stolen Health & Life: How Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Marauds Its Victims The Golden Girls was an eighties sitcom about four women that shared a home in Miami. The sitcom presented a myriad of topics from homelessness to age discrimination. One of its more poignant episodes was about the diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. This two part episode showed how Dorothy (portrayed by Bea Arthur), struggled to find the cause of an ongoing illness that mimicked flu like symptoms. After visiting a multitude
with more than twenty thousand cases reported throughout the world. It was only until 1955 when the Salk inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) was introduced which very successfully started supressing the disease. This disease is affiliated with the enterovirus subgroup of ‘Picornaviridae’ family. It is classified as three serotypes: PV1, PV2 and PV3. The infection is sprea... ... middle of paper ... ... presented by the diagram on the side. In this diagram some countries in Asia, Africa and South
Salk in the 1950s, and polio infections have dropped tremendously, with the Americas being declared polio-free in 1994 by the World Health Organization1. Efforts are underway to eradicate this deadly disease by the year 2018. Poliovirus is an enterovirus, which is a genus of positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses. Positive-sense single-stranded
The immune system is one of the major systems of the human body. It protects the body from diseases and infections that could cause harm to a person’s body. To protect the body it distinguishes between unhealthy and healthy cells (National Institute). The immune system distinguishes between these cells to determine if the body is being invaded by a disease, or if the body is fine and healthy. It will fight off foreign contaminants if they are invading the body to potentially harm it. The immune system
455623 Word Count 1505 Compare and contrast the elimination programs for polio and leprosy Diseases with significant morbidity and mortality have often become the target of disease elimination programs that attempt to reduce the incidence and prevalence of a particular disease and remove the disease impact from endemic regions. Elimination programs are strategies that attempt to reduce to zero the incidence of a targeted disease in a specified population, using various public health interventions