Essays Tagged: "infect"
The Ebola virus
ions concerning one of the fastest killing viruses, the Ebola virus. Questions such as 'How does it infect its victims?', 'How are Ebola victims treated?', 'How are Ebola outbreaks controlled?' and ma ... cribed by the RNA of the virus. The genome consists of a single strand of negative RNA, which is noninfectious itself. The order of it is as follows: 3' untranslated region, nucleoprotein, viral struc ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Tuberculosis
osis------------------------------------------------------------------------Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by a germ (bacterium) called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This germ primari ... a germ (bacterium) called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This germ primarily affects the lungs and may infect anyone at any age.In the United States, the number of TB cases steadily decreased until 1986 ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Current status of malaria vaccinology
falciparium, P .malariae, P .vivax and P .ovale. Malaria does not only effect humans, but can also infect a variety of hosts ranging from reptiles to monkeys. It is therefore necessary to look at all ... of Malaria both begins and ends. The parasitic protozoan enters the bloodstream via the bite of an infected female mosquito. During her feeding she transmits a small amount of anticoagulant and haplo ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
AIDS/HIV
f that cell and uses the system toreproduce itself. The white blood cell dies and the new HIV cells infect otherwhite blood cells and repeat the process. The Person with the disease will eventually di ... ase will eventually die because the white blood cell dies off tottally.AIDS VIRUSIf you have become infected with the AIDS disease you may not haveany symptoms of the disease for the next ten years. P ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
AIDS and You
AIDS and You: The lethal relationWe know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from it without resorting to such extremes as mandator ... t they hear, preferring to think that AIDS 'can't happen to them.' Experts repeatedlyremind us that infective agents do not discriminate, but can infect any andeveryone. Like other communicable diseas ... . It is not necessarily confined to a few high-risk groups. We must all protect ourselves from this infection and teach our children about it in time to take effective precautions. Given the right mea ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Aids
appeared in 1959. Its definition states that its any of a group of retroviruses and esp. HIV-1 that infect and destroy helper T cells of the immune system causing the marked reduction in their numbers ... by means of which DNA is produced using their RNA as a template and incorporated into the genome of infected cells and that include numerous tumorigenic viruses. During the 2000 year 5.3 million peopl ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Why we cant wait, Martin Luther King Jr. This is basically about the book, although I have thrown in a few desciptions of the times in which he lived, to better understand the era.
h about the time and the surroundings of when this book was written, and the stereotypes that still infect our lives.B. Why We Can't WaitWhile reading Dr. King's novel, I was able to get an uncensored ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Malaria
caused by a parasite called Plasmodium that is transmitted from one human to another by the bite of infected Anopheles mosquitoes. In humans, the parasites migrate to the liver where they mature and r ... liver where they mature and release another form called merozoites. These enter the bloodstream and infect the red blood cells. The parasites multiply inside the red blood cells, which then rip apart ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology
Internet security
me, password, credit-card information, and other valuable information (Weiss 54). Many hackers can 'infect' a user's computer with a virus, which is a damaging program, without the user even knowing. ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
In the Name of Malace or for Business. A look into computer virus
new strains are usually just a matter of days, not months or years, away.Virus, a program that 'infects' computer files (usually other executable programs) by inserting in those files' copies of i ... uch a manner that the copies will be executed when the file is loaded into memory, allowing them to infect still other files, and so on. Viruses often have damaging side effects, sometimes intentional ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Ebola
ody fluids, to the cells.As the virus reproduces itself, the copies, are released from the cell and infect other cells. When a virus reproduces, it changes the chemical make up of a cell. This change ... up of a cell. This change usually damages or kills the cell, and disease results if many cells are infected.The Ebola (pronounced ee-BOH-la) virus is an extremely lethal virus from the tropics, its e ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
"Computer Viruses"
omputer VirusesA computer virus is an illegal and potentially damaging computer program designed to infect other software by attaching itself to any software it contacts. In many cases, virus programs ... ograms are designed to damage computer systems maliciously by destroying or corrupting data. If the infected software is transferred to or accessed by another computer system, the virus spreads to the ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
This essay explains the history of Smallpox through the present.
. This is three times more than all the wars in the twentieth century combined. This virus does not infect animals, and it is limited to humans. Its course starts as an acute disease that produces dis ... marks on the face of the survivor. Then after a ten to fourteen day incubation period in which the infected can still remain active, headache, fever and weakness suddenly occur. Smallpox can most eas ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Malaria: Investigating Malaria Parasites and Gene Expression.
lives of one to two million children each year. Although only four species of the malaria parasite infect humans, severe disease and deaths are overwhelmingly due to a single species, Plasmodium falc ... ozoites can then circulate in the blood before it then settles in the liver where it establishes an infection. This is where the cells can multiply into merozoites, which in one liver cell, can multip ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
The bubonic plague.
plague made everyone equal by the facts that no matter what social class you're in, the plague will infect you. From the peasants to the dukes, people were afraid for their lives. Since people had no ... lated the health regulations, and to scare the rest. And the fires were to destroy things that were infected.The Black Death affected the schools. Children drove many others way, they were scared of c ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Computer Viruses.
A computer virus is an illegal and potentially damaging computer program designed to infect other software by attaching itself to any software it comes in contact with. In many cases, v ... ograms are designed to damage computer systems maliciously by destroying or corrupting data. If the infected software is transferred to or accessed by another computer system, the virus spreads to the ... e types of viruses are a boot sector virus, file virus, and Trojan horse virus. A boot sector virus infects the boot program. When the infected boot program executes, the virus is loaded into the comp ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
"Affluenza"- the disease of spending money.
suffers from this disease called Affluenza. However, it isn't just the people's fault. Advertisers infect the country with more things that they "need" to have. Commercials are like the germs. Once p ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Chlamydia.
What is chlamydia?Chlamydia (klah-MIH-dee-ah) is the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infection in the U.S. Its full name is chlamydia trachomatis (trah-ko-MAH-tis). It is a kind of bact ... he U.S. Its full name is chlamydia trachomatis (trah-ko-MAH-tis). It is a kind of bacteria that can infect the penis, vagina, cervix, anus, urethra, or eye.Chlamydia is the name of several types of ba ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Describe immune responses to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and discuss recent advances towards development of a safe protective vaccine against HIV.
ely preventable, in practice, without the development of an effective vaccine, HIV will continue to infect millions throughout the world. The ideal vaccine for worldwide use will be inexpensive to man ... V is a member of the lentivirus family of animal retroviruses which are capable of long term latent infection of cells and short term cytopathic effects (Abbas et al., 2003). A HIV virion contains two ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
A current study on AIDS
, ignorance still seem to block many people from taking AIDS seriously.We know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from it without resorting to such extremes as mandator ... they hear, preferring to think that AIDS "can't happen to them." Experts repeatedly remind us that infective agents do not discriminate, but can infect any and everyone. Like other communicable disea ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays