Dengue Fever is already considered as major health concern of the people all over the world. Infection of dengue virus causes the flu-like symptoms that can lead to further fatal complication known as the severe dengue or Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF). The World Health Organization (WHO) traced an increase of number of cases for the past five decades and it already has spread into many countries. There is an estimation of at least 50 percent of the world population to be at risk of the disease and
1 INTRODUCTION Dengue whish also known as breakbone, or dandy fever is an acute, mosquito-borne fever that is incapaciting but rarely caused fatal. This disease is also characterized by extreme pain in and stiffness of the joints hence the name ‘breakbone fever’. The most severe form called dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), which is characterized by hemorhaging blood vessels thus bleeding from the nose, mouth and internal tissues. May causing ausually fatal condition known as dengue shock syndrome
1 Background Dengue fever is a viral disease that was initially documented in Chinese encyclopedia of diseases and symptoms of the disease were published during the Chin Dynasty (265 to 420 AD) (Gubler 1998). It was stated as “water poison” in early literatures because of the clean water in which these flying insects bred, after the advances in modern science it was confirmed that dengue fever is a viral disease which is transmitted to humans through mosquitoes (Ligon 2006). Dengue viruses are the
yellow fever study, William Gorgas. He also contacted the commissioner of the entire study, Walter Reed, to convince him to allow Clara to help the study. This study was conducted post-war in Cuba because of the widespread epidemic the Cubans were suffering around this time. One of the studies main goals was to determine how the disease was spread, whether by touch or direct contact from the mosquito. Humans were chosen to test the theory that under medical care, a mild case of yellow fever could
mosquitoes, three of them are the mainly cause of the transmission of human diseases. Anopheles mosquito, carrier of malaria, Culex mosquito , the carrier of encephalitis, filariasis and West Nile Virus and Aedes mosquito, the carrier of yellow fever, dengue and encephalitis. Aside from these diseases, there are other diseases caused by mosquitoes like chikungunya and dog heartworm. According to the World Health Organization, mosquito bites were responsible for the deaths of more than one million people
Introduction Climate is usually defined as the average weather in a place. It includes patterns of temperature, precipitation (rain or snow), humidity, wind and seasons. Climate change is a change in the statistical properties of the climate change system that persist for several decades or longer-usually at least 30 years. The statistical properties include averages, variability and extremes. Climate change, also called global warming, refers to the rise in average surface temperatures on Earth
1. Problem/Issue discussion Tourism sector is main source of foreign currency exchanges to Malaysia compare to manufacturing sector. In this article study about the last decade several events that represented the potential shocks to multinational tourist arrival to Malaysia. The problem of this article is to study whether shocks have permanent or transitory effect on tourist arrivals in Malaysia. One aspect of tourism in Malaysia that has not been considered is the effect of shocks to the time
problems faced by a common man with regards to health infrastructure, availability of doctors, complexity of insurance policies and its accessibility. There is improvement in the structure but not to the extent which it has to be. The data of this study is primary as well as secondary data. Keywords: Insurance, Infrastructure, Doctors, Policies Introduction The term Health Insurance is commonly used to describe an insurance that pays for medical expenses. Someone rightly said it, “Health is Wealth”
Leptospirosis is an endemic zoonosis in the Philippines with an average of 680 leptospirosis cases and 40 deaths from the disease reported every year and a prevalence of 10/100,000. It is seasonal with a peak incidence during the rainy months of July to October. It is anticipated that leptospirosis will continue to re-emerge in the country as a