Agents of bioterrorism are usually found in the hands of terrorists, scientists, and most of all some rogue nations. In the hands of the extremists, biological and chemical agents used for terrorism are unsafe and can be used with or without provocation to cause threat, economic panic, sickness, and death in a target human population. […]
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Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism is an archaic and primitive practice of warfare that predates the development of the “Germ Theory of Disease” by Robert Koch. The Romans, ancient Greeks, the Chinese and the Persians used microbes and other biological agents including dead bodies as weapons of warfare against their enemies. The weaponization of these agents and their usage
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Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism is simply defined as the unauthorized, threatened, and deliberate use of microbes (including bacteria, fungi or viruses) and their products (e.g. spores and toxins) as well as other biological and toxic substances or materials to cause death or disease in human populations, plants or animals. It is the use of microorganisms and other biological
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Bioterrorism
The phrase ‘Zoonosis’ is a Greek word that comes from zoon (which means animal) and osis (which means ill). Zoonoses (plural: zoonosis) therefore, are animal diseases transmissible to humans. Zoonotic infections which can also be called zoonosis are diseases/infections caused by pathogens that can be passed or shared between humans and animals. They are diseases
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Epidemiology
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two milestone treatments, Casgevy and Lyfgenia, representing the first cell-based gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD) in patients 12 years and older. Additionally, one of these therapies, Casgevy, is the first FDA-approved treatment to utilize a type of novel genome editing technology, signaling
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Statistically, the measures and/or determination of disease occurrence in a given population are usually expressed practically as rates or fractions which are stated as per the number of people in the population (for example 10, 100, and 10,000). The fraction is generally expressed as a numerator (which is the number of persons with the disease)
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Epidemiology
In describing the health status of any population, useful data (in terms of health-related issues) from members of the community are crucial to determining the disease agent, mode of transmission, key symptoms/syndrome, type of disease, control and the establishment and evaluation of interventional measures. Epidemiologist work with data and, epidemiological studies are exclusively based on
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Epidemiology
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Epidemiological data has immense benefit to the health of any people as well as their standard of living as it relates to their health. Results from epidemiological studies are used for health planning and the development of tangible public health set of rules that help a particular population to evade and contain infectious disease-causing microorganisms
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Epidemiology
AIM: To provide information on the different white blood cells (neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, monocytes) present in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimen. MATERIAL/APPARATUS: CSF specimen, methylene blue stain, microscope, glass slide, water, Bunsen burner, inoculating loop, immersion oil. METHOD/PROCEDURE FOR DIFFERENTIAL COUNT OF CSF SAMPLE REPORTING OF THE RESULT: Report the number of the different
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