The Columbian Exchange
... A. What was the Columbian Exchange? -Global trade routes, before and after 1492 -intercontinental movement of plants, animals, and microbes, both intentional and unintentional B. Significance of the Columbian Exchange? ...
... A. What was the Columbian Exchange? -Global trade routes, before and after 1492 -intercontinental movement of plants, animals, and microbes, both intentional and unintentional B. Significance of the Columbian Exchange? ...
Chapter 13 Preventing Infectious Diseases
... Salmonellosis Symptom Vaccine Virus White blood cell Key questions ...
... Salmonellosis Symptom Vaccine Virus White blood cell Key questions ...
A Short History of Medicine
... Infectious disease were unknown since the population densities needed by these microorganisms did not exist Since they were constantly moving around they never polluted their water or deposited filth which attracts disease causing insects ...
... Infectious disease were unknown since the population densities needed by these microorganisms did not exist Since they were constantly moving around they never polluted their water or deposited filth which attracts disease causing insects ...
Aim: To explain the distribution of diseases of affluence
... Aim: To explain the distribution of diseases of affluence and poverty ...
... Aim: To explain the distribution of diseases of affluence and poverty ...
L11 Transmission of infectious diseases
... EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGISTS STUDY THE OUTBREAK AND PATTERN OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES TO DETERMINE THE FACTORS WHICH AFFECT THE SPREAD OF ...
... EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGISTS STUDY THE OUTBREAK AND PATTERN OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES TO DETERMINE THE FACTORS WHICH AFFECT THE SPREAD OF ...
1 Immunisation Position Statement
... For more than 200 years, the use of vaccines has been instrumental in reducing the burden of many infectious diseases. Vaccination has been demonstrated to be a safe and effective public health intervention, and worldwide it has been estimated that immunisation programs prevent approximately 2.5 mil ...
... For more than 200 years, the use of vaccines has been instrumental in reducing the burden of many infectious diseases. Vaccination has been demonstrated to be a safe and effective public health intervention, and worldwide it has been estimated that immunisation programs prevent approximately 2.5 mil ...
Other Infectious Diseases
... people worldwide but has since been eradicated from the human population? ...
... people worldwide but has since been eradicated from the human population? ...
CH08_Did You Know
... Occupational death and injuries are higher for certain jobs and workplace conditions. While some are preventable, there are some high risk occupations. Non-fatal workplace injuries and exposure to harmful substances also place a burden on society. What safety laws protect workers in high risk occupa ...
... Occupational death and injuries are higher for certain jobs and workplace conditions. While some are preventable, there are some high risk occupations. Non-fatal workplace injuries and exposure to harmful substances also place a burden on society. What safety laws protect workers in high risk occupa ...
Disease and Public Health 101
... -- Public Health deals with populations, prevention and policy --- and includes research on all of these -- Public Health often involves the treatment of individual patients, but that is NOT its focus -- At its core, public health is concerned with populations at risk, not individual medical care [A ...
... -- Public Health deals with populations, prevention and policy --- and includes research on all of these -- Public Health often involves the treatment of individual patients, but that is NOT its focus -- At its core, public health is concerned with populations at risk, not individual medical care [A ...
Заголовок слайда отсутствует
... healthier country. It is quite obviously important that all national health stations function well with adequate personel and supplies, not true for India which has 1000 million people nor for many other countries. ...
... healthier country. It is quite obviously important that all national health stations function well with adequate personel and supplies, not true for India which has 1000 million people nor for many other countries. ...
Заголовок слайда отсутствует
... healthier country. It is quite obviously important that all national health stations function well with adequate personel and supplies, not true for India which has 1000 million people nor for many other countries. ...
... healthier country. It is quite obviously important that all national health stations function well with adequate personel and supplies, not true for India which has 1000 million people nor for many other countries. ...
Measles & other rashes
... Public Health will distribute letters to parents with all children with no documented MMR vaccination to approach GPs for vaccination All children over 1 yr age and adults born after 1970 can get MMR vaccination if not been vaccinated before ...
... Public Health will distribute letters to parents with all children with no documented MMR vaccination to approach GPs for vaccination All children over 1 yr age and adults born after 1970 can get MMR vaccination if not been vaccinated before ...
Measles, Mumps and Rubella
... anorexia, fever may precede parotitis. • 15-20% of infections are asymptomatic • Incubation period 16-18 days [range 12-25 days]. • Most infectious 1-2 days before until 5 days after parotitis ...
... anorexia, fever may precede parotitis. • 15-20% of infections are asymptomatic • Incubation period 16-18 days [range 12-25 days]. • Most infectious 1-2 days before until 5 days after parotitis ...
1 Measles is one of the most infectious diseases known. 2 It is
... A child infected with measles virus will not usually show any symptoms for about the first 10 to 12 days – the incubation period. The first symptom is usually a fever that lasts between one and seven days. The rash can appear as early as seven days after infection and up to 18 days after infection, ...
... A child infected with measles virus will not usually show any symptoms for about the first 10 to 12 days – the incubation period. The first symptom is usually a fever that lasts between one and seven days. The rash can appear as early as seven days after infection and up to 18 days after infection, ...
Victims of their own success: Vaccines for infectious diseases
... Between 1998 and 2006 WHO estimated 4.2 million deaths from rotavirus 200 cases of intussusception in Australia annually 14 additional cases per year due to vaccine Annual Australian incidence pre-2007 22,000 ED presentation 10,000 admissions 60-70% reduction post-2007 ...
... Between 1998 and 2006 WHO estimated 4.2 million deaths from rotavirus 200 cases of intussusception in Australia annually 14 additional cases per year due to vaccine Annual Australian incidence pre-2007 22,000 ED presentation 10,000 admissions 60-70% reduction post-2007 ...
Study: Fatal measles complication not as rare as previously thought
... Diseases Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medicine Association and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. SSPE is a neurological disorder that can appear years after a person is infected with measles and is always fatal. To assess the rate of SSPE, ...
... Diseases Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medicine Association and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. SSPE is a neurological disorder that can appear years after a person is infected with measles and is always fatal. To assess the rate of SSPE, ...
Request for Exemption from MMR Vaccination Requirement
... Varicella (chicken pox) is a common childhood disease. It is usually mild, but it can be serious, especially in young infants and adults. It can lead to severe skin infection, scars, pneumonia, brain damage, or death. The chickenpox virus is spread through the air, or by contact with fluid from chic ...
... Varicella (chicken pox) is a common childhood disease. It is usually mild, but it can be serious, especially in young infants and adults. It can lead to severe skin infection, scars, pneumonia, brain damage, or death. The chickenpox virus is spread through the air, or by contact with fluid from chic ...
Slide 1
... 3. Deny access to any room(s) for three hours where the infected person was present. 4. Communicate information to the campus community. 5. Encourage everyone to check if they have immunity, and if not get the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) immunization. ...
... 3. Deny access to any room(s) for three hours where the infected person was present. 4. Communicate information to the campus community. 5. Encourage everyone to check if they have immunity, and if not get the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) immunization. ...
Eradication of infectious diseases
Eradication is the reduction of an infectious disease's prevalence in the global host population to zero. It is sometimes confused with elimination, which describes either the reduction of an infectious disease's prevalence in a regional population to zero, or the reduction of the global prevalence to a negligible amount. Further confusion arises from the use of the term eradication to refer to the total removal of a given pathogen from an individual (also known as clearance of an infection), particularly in the context of HIV and certain other viruses where such cures are sought.Selection of infectious diseases for eradication is based on rigorous criteria, as both biological and technical features determine whether a pathogenic organism is (at least potentially) eradicable. The targeted organism must not have a non-human reservoir (or, in the case of animal diseases, the infection reservoir must be an easily identifiable species, as in the case of rinderpest), and/or amplify in the environment. This implies that sufficient information on the life cycle and transmission dynamics is available at the time an eradication initiative is programmed. An efficient and practical intervention (e.g., a vaccine or antibiotic) must be available to interrupt transmission of the infective agent. Studies of measles in the pre-vaccination era led to the concept of the Critical community size, the size of the population below which a pathogen ceases to circulate. Use of vaccination programmes before the introduction of an eradication campaign can reduce the susceptible population. The disease to be eradicated should be clearly identifiable, and an accurate diagnostic tool should exist. Economic considerations, as well as societal and political support and commitment, are other crucial factors that determine eradication feasibility.Eight attempts have been made to date to eradicate infectious diseases: two successful programs targeting smallpox and rinderpest; four ongoing programs targeting poliomyelitis, yaws, dracunculiasis and malaria; and two former programs targeting hookworm and yellow fever. Five more infectious diseases have been identified as of April 2008 as potentially eradicable with current technology by the Carter Center International Task Force for Disease Eradication—measles, mumps, rubella, lymphatic filariasis and cysticercosis.