Lyme disease: when a tick bite has dramatic consequences
Now considered a "health emergency", the disease makes an increasing number of victims each year. It remains poorly diagnosed. According to specialists, it is part of the "health emergencies" of our time, and remains largely "underestimated". Lyme disease, caused by tick bites , causes new victims every year. Thursday, February 15, 2018, a complaint against X was filed with the public health pole of the Paris prosecutor's office by 59 patients and the association Lyme Without Borders. They denounce possible…...
Epidemiology of Lyme Disease
Burgdorfer, the spirochetes were named Borrelia burgdorferi (Where did Lyme Disease Come From? Is it New? , 2009). Further investigation would lead scientists to name blacklegged ticks as the source of B. burgdorferi transmittal. Scientists would also find that antibiotics were successful in treating Lyme disease and that lab tests could be used to determine human infection (Preece, 2008). Healthy People 2010 The government project, Healthy People 2010, is designed to help Americans achieve healthier lives by the year 2010.…...
Lyme Disease
Chronic Lyme disease has been a controversial topic for many years. Researchers are in between opinions to determine if this disease really does exist. Lyme disease is a tick-borne disease that passes to the tick’s host once it has latched on and started feeding. The disease goes into the host’s blood and implants a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. This type of bacterium is from the spirochete family. Stricker (2008) “Chronic infections with the Lyme spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, is rare and…...
Hygiene and Cleanliness
The Free Dictionary online precisely defines cleanliness as “Cleanliness is both the abstract state of being clean and free from dirt, and the process of achieving and maintaining that state, habitually and carefully neat and clean”. This definition of cleanliness can be understood in many different ways. It can be understood literally as being physically clean as in bathing and washing along with keeping clean surroundings. It can also be taken to mean that by the act of being clean…...
Citrus Peels as Insect Repellent
Introduction The researchers wanted to make citrus peels as a main ingredient for insect repellent because we can also get the fruit in our own tree or backyard and get only the peel. The lemon peel contains Vitamin C and citric acid which are also good for our skin. While an orange peel also contains Vitamin C. These peels can ward off mosquitoes. It’s said that mosquitoes are totally repulsed by either scent. The essential oils that can be extracted…...
Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi, Parasites and Diseases They Cause
Bacteria These are tiny microorganisms, they cannot be seen with the naked eye. They exist on virtually every living thing or object in the environment i.e. dirt, water, caves, trees, dead animals, and within everybody living on earth. Its nutrition is from its surroundings. We carry bacteria in the body, mainly in the intestines, on the genitalia or on the skin. Bacteria can be good or bad. It can help our immune system but there are bad bacteria which make…...