Cusick
lol ok last question i think i got a good topic in my head now. If you do have an infectious disease what is the USA doing to keep it from spreading, let say you found out you had SARS and was still healthy enough to go on a dream trip to France, how do they keep you from going there, or keep them from coming here? If ordered to quarantined next week, and the person does not want to go, can the person still buy a plane ticket and fly? Im gonna try to make my topic the policies of the USA on controlling infectious disease.
Amidon
The US isn't going to do much unless its a major public health concern (such as your example, SARS). ITs really not common as most people take the advice of health care providers who will tell you not to travel or go out in crowded places. So, its usually the person's choice to quarenteen him or herself. But, if said person proves to not take this advise, then law enforcement may intercede. This happened recently with a case of multi-drug resistant TB:The quarantine order was the first since the government quarantined a patient with smallpox in 1963, according to the CDC. See attached source
Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
What were louis pasteur's most significant findings with infectious diseases?
Cornersville
and for what diseases did he create vaccines for?
Aguadilla
Pasteur's most significant work with infectious disease is his work on the germ therory of disease. This therory proposes that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases. While Pasteur was not the first to propose germ theory (Girolamo Fracastoro, Agostino Bassi, Friedrich Henle and others had suggested it earlier), he developed it and conducted experiments that clearly indicated its correctness and managed to convince most of Europe it was true. Today he is often regarded as the father of germ theory and bacteriology, together with Robert Koch. Pasteur created vaccines for rabies and anthrax as well as worked on a vaccine for smallpox. While he did create a vaccine for smallpox, Edward Jenner is credited with the creation of the smallpox vaccine.
Olpe
He made vaccines for rabies and anthrax. He demonstrated that germs caused disease. And he showed that heating up liquids killed germs in them, preventing spoilage: i. e., he invented pasteurization. Pasteurization of milk significantly cut infant mortality. Remember that in case you ever run into anyone who extols drinking raw milk.
and for what diseases did he create vaccines for?
Aguadilla
Pasteur's most significant work with infectious disease is his work on the germ therory of disease. This therory proposes that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases. While Pasteur was not the first to propose germ theory (Girolamo Fracastoro, Agostino Bassi, Friedrich Henle and others had suggested it earlier), he developed it and conducted experiments that clearly indicated its correctness and managed to convince most of Europe it was true. Today he is often regarded as the father of germ theory and bacteriology, together with Robert Koch. Pasteur created vaccines for rabies and anthrax as well as worked on a vaccine for smallpox. While he did create a vaccine for smallpox, Edward Jenner is credited with the creation of the smallpox vaccine.
Olpe
He made vaccines for rabies and anthrax. He demonstrated that germs caused disease. And he showed that heating up liquids killed germs in them, preventing spoilage: i. e., he invented pasteurization. Pasteurization of milk significantly cut infant mortality. Remember that in case you ever run into anyone who extols drinking raw milk.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Do infectious disease specialists diagnose and treat what's wrong with a person?
Atmautluak
Do they diagnose whats wrong with a person and do they treat them? I think they do both?
Poynor
All specialists have completed medical school and have studied most diseases before turning specialists, that is focusing on one type of diseasesAs a specialist one should be able to diagnose and treat most illnesses related to their field. I say most and not all because no one is capable of learning every known illness, and treatments change from day to day. Besides treating the specific illnesses they have studied, specialists are able to recognize and treat some other illnesses out of their specialty. For example, an infectious disease specialist could recognize a skin disease while examining a patient and, either treat it if he knows how, or send the patient to a colleague who knows about the disease and is able to administer the proper treatmentBest doctors are the ones who know their specialty, diagnosing and treating specific illnesses, and are able to send the patients with other diseases to the correct specialist for their treatment
East Uniontown
If it's related to an infectious disease then yes they do. It's what they are consulted for routinely.
Do they diagnose whats wrong with a person and do they treat them? I think they do both?
Poynor
All specialists have completed medical school and have studied most diseases before turning specialists, that is focusing on one type of diseasesAs a specialist one should be able to diagnose and treat most illnesses related to their field. I say most and not all because no one is capable of learning every known illness, and treatments change from day to day. Besides treating the specific illnesses they have studied, specialists are able to recognize and treat some other illnesses out of their specialty. For example, an infectious disease specialist could recognize a skin disease while examining a patient and, either treat it if he knows how, or send the patient to a colleague who knows about the disease and is able to administer the proper treatmentBest doctors are the ones who know their specialty, diagnosing and treating specific illnesses, and are able to send the patients with other diseases to the correct specialist for their treatment
East Uniontown
If it's related to an infectious disease then yes they do. It's what they are consulted for routinely.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
How is gambling a disease? i don't understand?
Kingston
Isn't a disease something you catch from some infectious bacteria?
Taylor
It's an addiction, which is a kind of disease of the brain chemicals. You can be born with diseases, or develop them from lifestyle choices (like cancer from smoking). It's not a disease for everyone - some people can manage to gamble without becoming addicted, but some people destroy their lives with it and for them it is a disease.
Roosevelt Gardens
No, they are comparing it to a disease, yet unreasonable, because it's an addiction, it has nothing to do with your body except wasting your money if you tend to lose a lot..
Atlantic City
It's not. It's an addictive behavior. People like to remove the stigma of blame for things like gambling and alcoholism by calling them diseases. It makes the "victim" (addict) feel better, when in reality it allows them to be absolved of any responsibility for their actions.
Sibley
it's not a disease but it will do some pretty nasty things to you like destroy your whole life so don't gamble my mom knew someone who go around 10 million dollar from her dead husband and she lost it all in 4 years because of gambling
Batavia
I would not really call it a disease unless you consider any addiction a disease. I believe it's an addiction not unlike alcoholism or drug addiction which I don't consider either to be a disease. They like to use disease because it presumes you don't have any control over the situation. With addiction, you CAN get control.
Thompson
Gambling isnt a desease, a desease affects your body while gambling does not.. it only hurt your pocket if you dont play right..
Isn't a disease something you catch from some infectious bacteria?
Taylor
It's an addiction, which is a kind of disease of the brain chemicals. You can be born with diseases, or develop them from lifestyle choices (like cancer from smoking). It's not a disease for everyone - some people can manage to gamble without becoming addicted, but some people destroy their lives with it and for them it is a disease.
Roosevelt Gardens
No, they are comparing it to a disease, yet unreasonable, because it's an addiction, it has nothing to do with your body except wasting your money if you tend to lose a lot..
Atlantic City
It's not. It's an addictive behavior. People like to remove the stigma of blame for things like gambling and alcoholism by calling them diseases. It makes the "victim" (addict) feel better, when in reality it allows them to be absolved of any responsibility for their actions.
Sibley
it's not a disease but it will do some pretty nasty things to you like destroy your whole life so don't gamble my mom knew someone who go around 10 million dollar from her dead husband and she lost it all in 4 years because of gambling
Batavia
I would not really call it a disease unless you consider any addiction a disease. I believe it's an addiction not unlike alcoholism or drug addiction which I don't consider either to be a disease. They like to use disease because it presumes you don't have any control over the situation. With addiction, you CAN get control.
Thompson
Gambling isnt a desease, a desease affects your body while gambling does not.. it only hurt your pocket if you dont play right..
Monday, March 14, 2011
What is the infectious disease that killed the most number of humans in history?
Inver Grove Heights
Is it the Black Death/Bubonic Plague?
Kensal
Spanish Flu killed between 50-100mil people. Bubonic plague killed between 75-200mil people. So could be either. It wouldn't be a huge shock if the historians of the time overstated the effects of the plague to make themselves seem more important.
Scott Township
many people consider Life to be the most infectious disease. And everyone dies from that.
Twin Valley
My bet is smallpox or malaria.
Coyanosa
Smallpox. Half a billion dead in the 20th century alone. It's only two rivals are malaria and tuberculosis.
Port Deposit
It's the bubonic plague/Black Death, easily
Elwood
Smallpox is considered to have killed the most people in history. The black plague killed over 25 million in the medieval ages, a third of Europe's population. http://www. qualityhealth. com/health-life…
Is it the Black Death/Bubonic Plague?
Kensal
Spanish Flu killed between 50-100mil people. Bubonic plague killed between 75-200mil people. So could be either. It wouldn't be a huge shock if the historians of the time overstated the effects of the plague to make themselves seem more important.
Scott Township
many people consider Life to be the most infectious disease. And everyone dies from that.
Twin Valley
My bet is smallpox or malaria.
Coyanosa
Smallpox. Half a billion dead in the 20th century alone. It's only two rivals are malaria and tuberculosis.
Port Deposit
It's the bubonic plague/Black Death, easily
Elwood
Smallpox is considered to have killed the most people in history. The black plague killed over 25 million in the medieval ages, a third of Europe's population. http://www. qualityhealth. com/health-life…
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Jefferson please answer yes or no or give...
Jefferson
please answer yes or no or give an opinion upon this topic.. thanksbtw im doing this survey for my stats project :)i need 22 more peoople to answer my question, please help me out.. even if u answer yes or no i'll be really happy with it
Ridge
My answer is influenced by my two professional degrees and more than forty years of clinical practice, but I absolutely believe that vaccination is mandatory to prevent deadly epidemics. I'm old enough to remember some of the most dreadful epidemics of the 20th Century. We don't need any more of those!
Bellerive
No it should not. While there is a good chance it will stop the spreading, distributing a vaccine does not guarantee the disease will not spread, and in some cases the vaccine makes the disease worse. It's best left up to the people to decide if it's worth it to them.
Meadowlands
It depends which disease you are taking about. A vaccination can help prevent you from getting the virus, but there could be multiple strains of the virus. Even if you have a vaccination there is a chance you could contract something, so I would say no.
please answer yes or no or give an opinion upon this topic.. thanksbtw im doing this survey for my stats project :)i need 22 more peoople to answer my question, please help me out.. even if u answer yes or no i'll be really happy with it
Ridge
My answer is influenced by my two professional degrees and more than forty years of clinical practice, but I absolutely believe that vaccination is mandatory to prevent deadly epidemics. I'm old enough to remember some of the most dreadful epidemics of the 20th Century. We don't need any more of those!
Bellerive
No it should not. While there is a good chance it will stop the spreading, distributing a vaccine does not guarantee the disease will not spread, and in some cases the vaccine makes the disease worse. It's best left up to the people to decide if it's worth it to them.
Meadowlands
It depends which disease you are taking about. A vaccination can help prevent you from getting the virus, but there could be multiple strains of the virus. Even if you have a vaccination there is a chance you could contract something, so I would say no.
Friday, March 4, 2011
What are some interesting infectious disease?
Prague
I am doing a report and i need a really interesting infectious disease so please help asap thanks
Millersville
SmallpoxTuberculosisMumpsMeaslesDiptheriaRubella (German Measles)Pertussis (Whooping Cough)TetanusPolioHepatitisHIV/AIDSChlamydiaGonorrhoeaSyphilisSleeping SicknessTrichinosisYellow FeverRabiesMalariaChickenpoxMRSAInfluenzaMeningitis
Seven Trees
Yahooish Answeritis.
I am doing a report and i need a really interesting infectious disease so please help asap thanks
Millersville
SmallpoxTuberculosisMumpsMeaslesDiptheriaRubella (German Measles)Pertussis (Whooping Cough)TetanusPolioHepatitisHIV/AIDSChlamydiaGonorrhoeaSyphilisSleeping SicknessTrichinosisYellow FeverRabiesMalariaChickenpoxMRSAInfluenzaMeningitis
Seven Trees
Yahooish Answeritis.
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