Review of Six Modern Plagues

Title Six Modern Plagues and How We ar Causing Them Apollo Casco College of DuPage tweet This paper is a review of the book Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them. Discussing slightly the causative agents of each plague and how we increased the cogency of each Mad Cow affection (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy), Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired resistive Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), Salmonella, Lyme Disease, Hanta virus, and West Nile Virus. Millions of quite a minuscule have died because of these diseases that can easily transfer from person to person or from fleshly to person, by eating fractional cooked meat, or simply a mosquito bite.Keywords mad cow disease, hiv/aids, salmonella, Lyme disease, Hantavirus, western approximately Nile virus Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the good name for mad cow disease, first struck in a cattle farm in England in 1984. The infected cow started performing strangely. A s the disease progresses, the cow developed head tremors and became unsteady, then became violent. The veterinary surgeon who is trying to diagnose what is happening with the cows concluded that the disease is contend the brain. Further study of the brain of the infected animal revealed a mooch like appearance of the brain.It took sixteen (16) years before the authorities in agriculture pointed out what is do the disease into the cattle. Rendering, recycling of animal parts that usually go to waste was turned into high protein pass for herbivores like the cows, sheep, and goats. This process was stopped on year 2000. Disregarding the dietetical boundaries of animals caused bad effects on the animals itself and into human beings as well by consuming their meat. Centers for Disease and Prevention alarmed the public in 1981 about the emergence of an agent capable of suppressing the repellent response on humans a new virus.Because the virus attacks the immune system, they named i t acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The AIDS virus, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was first found on the blood of a person from congou tea who is a part of malaria research the year was 1959, and this is currently the earliest attested case of HIV-1 transmittance. While working at Pasteur play in Paris, twain French virologists, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, identified the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS in 1983 (Abbott, Allison, & Geoff Brumfiel, 2008).HIV attacks the immune system by destroying CD4 positive (CD4+) T cells, a type of sporty blood cell that is vital to fighting off infection. The destruction of these cells leaves people infected with HIV vulnerable to other infections, diseases, and other complications (DOH, 2008). A cooking pan troglodyte troglodytes is a subspecies of chimpanzee was the primary soldiers of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Transfer of bodily fluids from handling of meats of infected animals gave countermand to AIDS. From the persons who prepare the meats to be sold to the market got themselves infected through cuts on their skin with blood of the infected animals.The disease will further cover its network through sex from an infected person. Salmonella typhimurium DT104, is a deadly pass on that haunted people and livestock agriculture for three (3) years. Salmonella typhimurium bacteria became disgustful to antibiotics because of human actions. Farm owners abused the use of antibiotics. Rather than keeping their animals clean, they chance it cheaper to use antibiotics to protect them from infection due to crowded and dirty nutriment conditions in the farm. Antibiotics are added into their diet to make them grow a little faster.Newborn calves are given antibiotics to prevent infection. They are weaned immediately subsequently birth deprived of milk from their mother that is rich and full of antibodies. by dint of the phenomenon known as natural selection, each genera tion of the bacteria grows more resistant with the continuous exposure to drugs. Antibiotic Fluoroquinolone worked to treat the bacteria. As most of people know that a bulls-eye rash appears when somebody had a Lyme disease. From the past, the tattletale story about the bulls-eye rash was used by physicians as the main(prenominal) diagnostic criteria rendering a negative diagnosis.The truth is, the bulls-eye rash constitution only occurs in 9% of cases (Internet, story) Deforestation decreases the population of keystone species, causing the increase of population of deer that carries the tick that causes Lyme disease. Mouse and chipmunks are as well carriers of the tick. Because of radical changes people have made to the landscape, the ecological balance canted on one side. Muscle pain, stiffness of the spine, lost of appetite, agitated, fever, shivering, are the symptoms of the disease.If detect early, a three week course of antibiotic will restitute the problem. To the Nava jos, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) is nothing new. A disease usually fatal infection that causes victims to drown on their own fluids. The disease coincides with the phenomenon known as El Nino. 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