Rebecca Thomas 10/17/15 Ms. Jennrich Global Health HSM 210 Lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as Elephantiasis, is a tropical disease which causes major damage to the lymphatic system. The lymph system in the human body maintains the balance of fluids as well as battles infections. This disease is caused by a type of parasite called nematodes (roundworms), which are microscopic worms which slither their way inside the affected people’s bodies and harbor there. It usually is transmitted during
For everyone life is already hard enough. All anyone wants is to be accepted and to feel cared about but when you are unfortunately born with deformities life is a hundred times harder. According to his play The Elephant man Bernard Pomerance believes that society will shun those with deformities until they take the time to actually get to know them. John was a man shunned by society because he simply didn’t look like everyone else. He was born with a serious case of Elephantitis and was said to
Elephantiasis disease results in much psychological distress and suffering to both the person with the disease and family. It also causes embarrassment, shame, sadness, depression, fear and social isolation. This embarrassment is due to the visibility of the swollen parts of the body. A common embarrassing name used to describe the disease is elephant leg. This disease can cause disability and poverty to people due to the enlargement of different body parts. It can enable people to work, and this
Lymphatic Filariasis (also commonly known as Elephantiasis) is a disease that is caused by thread-like worms. Adult worms are most commonly found in the human lymphatic system. It causes the affected area – mostly the legs, arms, breasts or genital areas – to brutal and abnormal swelling which also makes the skin covering the area become more exposed to bacteria. This makes the skin hard and thick: the condition has been named as Elephantiasis. In most cases the affected person does not show
The most common symptoms generally; are skin rashes, nodules, lesions, intense itching, visual impairment and blindness, along with weight loss,hanging groin and elephantiasis of the gentials in women(Opperdoes, 2002).Depending upon the strain the person is infected with, plays a key role in where nodules may appear on the body. As a matter of fact, there are two different types, the African and the Central American
caused by a parasitic worm known as Loa Loa (CDC 2015). This parasite is known as the African eye worm by most people (CDC 2015). Since the presence of people with Loa Loa infection has limited programs to control or eliminate lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) and onchocerciasis (river blindness) whether a person has Loa Loa infection has been more important in Africa. In Central and West Africa 29 million people are more at risk of getting Loiasis in these areas (CDC 2015). Using the epidemiological
adult worm spreads its larvae throughout the host’s lymphatic system and causes the lymph nodes to become clogged up. This also makes the tissue in the host’s body to swell up and create massive muscle deformations, otherwise known as elephantiasis. The elephantiasis mainly affects the legs and genitals. The disease also affects the eyes but that can be easily detected through close inspection but it commonly causes river blindness in the host. It’s been estimated that the parasite is one of the leading
Although some pharmaceutical companies maintain active antibiotic research programs, many have halted their antibiotic programs. So despite encouraging research and development of new anitbacterial drugs is necessary, new drugs alone are not the answer. Ciprofloxacin (Cipro) was introduced in 1987, and it works by “allowing topoisomerases to cut DNA, but not “glue” the ends back together. The result is that the bacterium can no longer replicate its DNA, keeping the bacterial population in check”
In many places all over the world there are many things that changed the world for the better and worst but one of the most important things that changed the world is global warming. Global warming has been a major cause of problems not in just one part of the world but all over. Some believe that global warming is happening at a very fast pace and many others don’t care about the situation at hand. Humans have a big part in the role of global warming. This paper will attempt to explore this very
and how they affect the body. I regularly had to unpack deliveries from the large TNC GlaxoSmithKline and in my Geography lessons; I was taught that GSK actually donated 750 million products to MEDCs to treat 250 million people suffering from elephantiasis in 2006, where no profits were
topics were discussed, including the futures of health, farming, money, and technology. These topics were especially focused on the middle and lower classes. During the health segment of the interview, Gates mentioned that “polio, guinea worm, elephantiasis, river blindness, and blinding trachoma can all be eradicated by 2030,” and “the number
known smallpox case in the world was in Somalia in 1977 (CDC 2010). Even though small pox is the only listed eradicated disease, the Carter Foundation has listed six other diseases as having the potential to be eradicated: lymphatic filariasis (Elephantiasis), polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and pork tapeworm. In addition to these previous listed diseases are to date the following diseases which are considered preventable by vaccination: chicken pox, diphtheria, Haemohphilus Influenza type B, Hepatitis
What comes to mind when you think of Africa? The exotic animals, the African culture with tribal dances, and all of the beautiful people, but do people ever think about the country Uganda? Uganda is located in eastern Africa, and is molded by its deep rooted cultural history that speaks the two official languages, English and Swahili. The people of Uganda are strong with the desire to live, but are weakened by the immense loss of healthcare. Uganda’s way of life is much different than the lives in
“Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans”. This quote by Evo Morales exemplifies how earth should be treated and how what we are treating the earth is wrong. For the past century, humans have been abusing the earth. This abuse has lead to many problems on earth, the most prevalent being global warming. Global warming is
Circumcision is NOT Necessary The baby, Phil, is less than a day old. His tiny head still slightly misshaped, his eyelids puffy, his mouth half-open in his sleep. The nurse has taken him from his mother and is carrying him to another room in the pediatric ward. The nurse clicks on a white metal lamp with a twist of her fingers, removes the child from a cozy blue blanket, and lays him in a cold molded plastic form that is bolted tightly to the counter. This form fitting shell is called a Circumstraint
Joseph Carey Merrick, who died 120 years ago, was an individual with extreme disfigurements that could cause any person to run in fear, or even become ill, at the sight of him. Joseph Merrick was an inspiration to many, whether it was to people who saw him in sideshows, in the hospital, or to doctors who were baffled by his condition. Many questions were asked about Merrick; many refused to believe that he was even a human. Some thought he was alien, some thought animal, or, in the case of Frederick
Leprosy Leprosy (Hansen's Disease), sometimes called "Hanseniasis" or "H.D.," is a chronic my cobacterial disease of man, caused by Mycobacterium leprae (infectious in some cases), primarily affecting the peripheral nerves and secondarily involving skin and certain other tissues/organs, in particular the eye, mucosa of the nasal and upper respiratory tract and also the testes. In most cultures, HD still carries a strong stigma that sometimes makes more trouble for the patient that the actual leprosy
Visions of “The Primitive” in Langston Hughes’s The Big Sea Recounting his experiences as a member of a skeleton crew in “The Haunted Ship” section of his autobiography The Big Sea (1940), Langston Hughes writes This rusty tub was towed up the Hudson to Jonas Point a few days after I boarded her and put at anchor with eighty or more other dead ships of a similar nature, and there we stayed all winter. ...[T]here were no visitors and I almost never went ashore. Those long winter nights