Essays on Epidemiology

This assignment will focus on Measles and Meningococcal Meningitis, both are communicable diseases. “A communicable disease is an illness that is transmitted from a person, animal, or inanimate source to another person either directly, with the assistance of an intermediate host or by a vector”....

Nigeria as the ‘giant of Africa’ we know is endowed with bio-resources hidden in our tropical ecosystem including biologically diverse wild and domesticated crops, herbs and spices with distinct properties such as medicinal and pesticidal characteristics. The importance of these bio-resources as discovered since time...

As an acute viral infection, influenza affects about one million people through infections annually. Scientific research studies reveal that influenza is estimated to kill five hundred thousand individuals yearly. The burden of influenza is the highest among children whereas the severe disease one is greatest...

Vaccinations are listed among the most important achievements of modern medicine that save lives and protect against complications associated with dangerous infectious diseases. WHO listed vaccines which may protect us from infectious diseases and due to vaccination the one of most dangerous infectious disease have...

The dengue outbreak is at its worst situation in the history of Bangladesh. Still now we have seen totaling 11,654 dengue cases nationwide between January 1 and July 28 this year, according to the data provided by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). 824...

Dengue fever (DF) is an illness caused by mosquito. The factor is by Aedes-aegypti. All over the world, everyone knows and aware of dengue fever. The disease is transmitted through infected mosquito bites a person. Usually female mosquito are responsible for this because they sucks...

With the change in lifestyle large numbers of people are diagnosed with chronic pain and not only people from old age group but large numbers of people who are in the younger age group are also facing this problem. However, with the advent of medical...

This term project aimed to rationale how science fiction content describe and illustrate human fear through zombies, and its equivalency as part of the epidemiology interpretation. There was no formal concept of probability in Europe prior to the mid-17th century, despite the idea of randomized...

Modern day medical practice encounters many challenges. Among them one of the most crucial one faced day to day is development of resistance in bacteria especially gram negative bacteria towards beta lactam antibiotics due to presence of beta lactamases enzyme, caused by extensive irrational usage...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has been selected as the topic of this essay. First of all, a general description of diabetes mellitus is presented. The etiology and epidemiology of T2DM and its complications were specifically addressed. Subsequently, the major determinants of T2DM and analyses...