PUB HLT 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Expose, Social Inequality, Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
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Rapid spread of infectious diseases determined which side won the war. The us spent a fortune eradicating infectious diseases among the troops. Early stages: headache, fever, fatigue, muscle pain, sore throat. Advanced stages: bleeding from eyes, nose and mouth; impaired liver and kidney; diarrhea; vomiting; rash; internal and external bleeding. By direct contact with the infected (in the clothes: community engagement: case finding, case management, surveillance, contact tracing. Isolation of patients in maximum containment facilities: maximum protective apparel for care-givers (sufficient?, quarantine of contacts (spread by direct contact with the infected (in the clothes, gamma globulin from survivors (?) West nile virus is worst in texas & california. Texas has been at the epicenter of the epidemic with approximately half of the cases (586) and half of the deaths (21). The peak usually occurs in mid-august and that he expects many more cases as it takes a couple of weeks for people to develop illness.
