Lyme disease or Lyme Borreliosis is a serious infectious disease that is reported in many countries in the world. In 2013, the disease is claimed to be the fastest growing infectious disease in the United States with more than 300,000 cases reported from forty-nine states (CDC). This disease also afflicts 65,000 Europeans each year. Recent years’ reports show that there has been an dramatically increase in the number or Lyme disease incidences in both the United States and Europe (CDC, Pearson 88)
transmission. Ticks are graded second to mosquitoes for being blood-sucking vectors of transmittable diseases. Lyme disease is the usual sickness that can be experienced by the hosts from tick bites. Tick bites can be annoying and can be even be skin-damaging. It could generate more inflammation than mosquito bites. Lyme disease is an infectious disease that can be caught from tick bites. This
Plum Island is a 840-acre island, located off the coast of New York. The entire island was bought by the United States Government in 1899, after the Spanish American War. Plum Island was not developed into the Animal Disease Center that it is known as today, until 1954, by the United States Department of Agriculture. Neighboring the eastern end of Long Island, in Gardiners Bay; plum island may seem like quite the vacation spot, but it is far from it. It is not represented on some maps, and
BASIC BACKGROUND Watson is a question answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language,[2] developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci.[3] Watson was named after IBM's first CEO and industrialist Thomas J. Watson.[4][5] The computer system was specifically developed to answer questions on the quiz show Jeopardy!.[6] In 2011, Watson competed on Jeopardy! against former winners Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings.[4][7]