Essays on Rabies

Mathematical model.

In 1985, Kallen, Arcuri and Murray (377-393) presented a simple mathematical model for the spread of the rabies epidemics to approximate the minimum width of a break and enable the control of the spatial progression of rabies.

Features and assumptions of the model.

The model developed by Kallen, Arcuri and Murray (377-393) was based on a deterministic approach where the fox populations were categorized into two groups, namely infective and susceptible foxes. In this classification, the infective foxes included those with rabies virus present in their saliva while the susceptible ones included those without traces of rabies virus in their saliva. One of the assumptions ...

Summary

Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest among neurosurgeons on the potential for therapies that impact on diseases, over and above the movement disorders and pain. One of the biggest targets of this increasing interest has been the nucleus accumbens. It has been studied for long, as an area of the brain that mediates a variety of behaviors, including reward and satisfaction (Salgado & Kaplitt, 2015). With this in mind, the modulation of the biology of the Nucleus Accumbens through either deep brain stimulation or through biological therapies like gene therapy or the transplantation of cells ...

INTRODUCTION

There are many diseases that affect human beings that can be devastating and lethal, which dominates science journals and media. However, there are some diseases that cannot effect human beings rarely, but can be just as destructive and severe on some of the very species we rely on for hunting, as livestock and, most disturbingly, the animals that humanity keep as pets, including cats and dogs. One such disease is pseudorabies. Pseudorabies has similar symptoms to rabies, but they are unrelated conditions caused by two very different viruses. Pseudorabies is more often than not a fatal condition. Unfortunately, even ...

The Ozark Big Eared Bat

The Ozark Big Eared Bats (Corynorhinus townsendii ingens) are found in different habitats accross the United States. They are limited in number and are found in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma; however, it was reported that they are no longer found in Missouri because of the destruction of the environment. In Oklahoma, they are found in Adair County and adjacent parts of Cherokee and Delaware counties. In the early 1970s, the Ozark big eared bats were documented to only be a hundred in Missouri. With efforts in the l980s, it was reported that an increase in number among these creatures have occurred. ...

Melissa Nasiruddin, Monique Halabi, Alexander Dao, Kyle Chen, and Brandon Brown. ‘Zombies—A Pop Culture Resource for Public Health.’ A Pop Culture Resource for Public Health Awareness - Volume 19, Number 5—May 2013 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal - CDC wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/5/AD-1905_article.htm 2/10/2013

This article was written by Melissa Nasiruddin, Monique Halabi, Alexander Dao, Kyle Chen, and Brandon Brown. It discusses about the dangers of modifying viruses in the laboratory. They say that when viruses are modified, they can pose a very great threat because they can undergo mutation, multiply then spread at a very faster rate to cause problems to the people. In explaining this point, they use an example of a rabies virus which multiplied and caused zombie to a lot of people. It can be used in a research because it can help in creating public awareness on how dangerous zombie infections can be. ...

Introduction

It is undisputed that there are problems and risks of having stray cats and dogs in the community. Stray animals affects public health, economy, environment and their own health as well. Furthermore, more serious problems arise as the population of stray cats and dogs increases. Therefore, there is a need for better regulations that could help abate the increasing population of cats and dogs. The issues concerning strays can be ultimately understood by identifying a unique definition of a stray animal. The classification of whether an animal is stray helps the community which animals need attention, provides a universal definition, and identify ...

I am writing this personal experience that reinforced my belief in God and also shook me from within and even made me laugh! We all fear accidents as they involve serious injuries and may cause a threat to life. I am no different. Thoughts about a severe accident send shivers up my spine. However, I still recollect the day- June 1 in the year 2006, when I escaped miraculously in a road accident that year. This experience made me ponder about the importance of human life and also about its uncertainty. The incident became even more complicated with the addition of a dog ...

Book Review of

“The Hot Zone” written by Richard Preston is a non-fiction English book published by Anchor in 1995. It contains 420 pages and based on Richard Preston article “Crisis in the Hot Zone.” It is a thriller that deals with the source and occurrences relating to viral hemorrhagic fever especially Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses. The filo viruses, Ebola Virus called EBOV, Sudan Virus called SUDV, Marburg Virus called MARV and Ravn Virus called RAVV are the agents of level four of Biosafety. They are enormously hazardous to humans due to being very contagious and with an extraordinary casualty rate. There is ...

Prevention is crucial when it comes to combating rabies. Luckily, it is also quite easy. Prevention is classified into two methods: primary and secondary. Primary prevention: minimizing and avoiding exposure: One of the most vital steps in checking rabies is educating the endangered about sensible pet ownership as well as how they can avoid or minimize their rabies exposure. To begin with, dogs, cats and other pets must receive regular rabies vaccines. The conventional rabies vaccine was initially administered to dogs once annually, but desires to reduce vaccine frequency initiated the development of rabies vaccine that is now ...

The book entitled ‘RANT’ presents an oral biography of Buster Casey, a man who became very famous. Buster Casey is the protagonist of Chunk Palahniuk, an author with a huge reputation in wring tamer novels. It is a three hundred and nineteen page oral history book published by Doubleday publishers on 1 may 2007. It falls under novel-satire genre of literature told in English oral biography form. The novel begins and immediately the reader identifies the main character, Buster Casey Landru, also known as “RANT”. He is a deceased man whom various individuals in the entire story discuses the Buster’s life memories ...

Today, we are used to seeing a female doctor, but not so long ago it was a purely male profession. Elizabeth Blackwell was the one to change this trend and became the first American woman to become a registered doctor. Elizabeth was born on February 3, 1821, near Bristol in England. She had a happy childhood; especially she recalled the positive influence of his father. In education, religion and social issues he was quite liberal, for example, he did not punish children's misdeeds by flogging, but instead he put them down in the black book, and if there were many violations, the ...

Introduction

- Discuss New Jersey State health initiatives and their relationship to the DHHS National Prevention Strategy and Healthy People 2020.

List the state-mandated reportable communicable diseases.

Discuss the status of measles cases in the state with accompanying epidemiologic data. Discuss the status of pertussis cases in the state with accompanying epidemiologic data. Explain the Organizational structure of the state’s official public health agency. Present an overview of the state’s immunization program to include discussion of IIS (Immunization Information System). Conclusion Summary - Post of a summary of the paper to the Discussion Board in Blackboard with response to at ...

In Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, long-suffering Janie Crawford, having endured a lifetime of misunderstandings and frustrating marriages to ungrateful and possessive men, marries the man of her dreams – Tea Cake. This comes, of course, after her marriages to both Logan Killicks and Joe Starks, who disappoint her in many ways (unlike Tea Cake). Janie most certainly has her own ideals of intimacy, equating the role of love between humans to being a part of nature; Tea Cake’s status as a wonderful and attentive lover seem to help her fulfill these standards, with a few notable ...

Introduction:

In 1976, Marion Bradford designed the Bradford method that is widely used in measuring the concentration of protein in a solution. When Coomassie Blue is added to a solution containing protein, the solution colour changes from brown to blue and this is attributed to the formation of a protein complex. The concentration levels of protein can therefore be measured by observing the dye color, which fully absorbed at a certain wavelength. The standard curve is used to calculate the concentration of protein because it represents the known BSA (bovine serum albumin) dilution. (Harvard, 2012) A study by Daiet (2008) analysed murinae in ...

The earliest friend to man is the dog. However the case of dog meat eating has been in existence for a long time. Most of the practice of dog eating has been culturally embraced in the Asian world, more specifically in South Korea and China. Even though this is the case, dog eating has been a practice from the ancient times spanning from several regions like the hinterlands of Western Europe and the Asian peninsulas. The practice has been embraced without much thought about the repercussions and the possible problems associated with the habit. Although the practice is widely acclaimed as ...