Nursing 4320A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Swine Influenza, Tuberculosis, Global Health
19 Oct 2018
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Opening story: man w/drug-resistant tuberculosis causes international health. Epidemics and pandemics: 4 most recent major global diseases in past 600 years are: haemorrhagic plague/black death, cholera, influenza, hiv/aids the origin of the first documented communicable disease called the athenian. 3: these increased rates are due to 3 factors: drug-resistant strains of the disease; ineffectively treated, can infect 1 person/month. 4 the immune system then retains some antibodies to recognize and destroy the virus if an individual becomes exposed to it at a later time. Antimalarial medications in available in the us in addition to precautions such as mosquito repellant, and protective clothing and bed nets help reduce risk of getting it. Infected beef may contain paraise taenia saginata, and parasite in contaminated pork called taenia solium: either parsite can cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, and weight loss, taenia solium parasite in pigs not related to the cause of h1n1. In severe cases it can cause brain damage if untreated.
