In this instance, what started out as a religious ceremony among villages went very wrong and could have caused deaths; hence, the authors' points are potentially helpful in the future when outbreaks like this occur. What are the Benefits of Botul Continue Reading...
Communicable Diseases The MMR vaccine is an immunization against measles, mumps and Rubella. Recently there has been increased media coverage that there is a link between the combined MMR immunization and autism (NHS choices, 2012).This MMR vaccine Continue Reading...
Bioterrorism Case Study on Bioterrorism Create a scenario of a hypothetical bioterrorist attack involving botulism or plague. Your scenario should include characteristics that are more indicative of an intentional outbreak than a natural outbreak. Continue Reading...
These efforts include: expansion of international efforts to prevent terrorist acquisition of biological agents, initiated BioWatch program to detect initial releases of biological weapons within the environment, launched food programs to carefully Continue Reading...
Bio-Terrorism Hypothetical scenario Patients who were admitted in medical facilities complained of muscle paralysis. This was suspected to be the reason behind the blockage of the release of the acetylcholine. The patients also suffered from diplo Continue Reading...
Overview of a Pathogen: Clostridium botulinum According to The Bad Bug Book of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the common bacterium Clostridium botulinum is an “anaerobic, Gram-positive, spore-forming rod that produces a potent neur Continue Reading...
Botox ® - What is it used for? Botox ® - Can anything bad happen? Botox ® - Looking toward the future. Botox ® - What is it? Botox, which is the trade name for botulinum toxin, is produced by a bacterium that has been identified f Continue Reading...
Pathogenic & Nonpathogenic Microorganisms have the capacity of causing severe disease if the conditions are ideal enough to sustain the life of these microbes. As more and more microbes are able to grow, the risk of disease development rises. Al Continue Reading...
Microbiology Microbes Microbial metabolism is referred to as the manner in which microbes find their nutrients and energy that makes them live and reproduce. The paper will describe metabolic requirement for Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium bo Continue Reading...
Recovery Plan: Biological Attack in the U.S. Congress The havoc and deaths caused by the weaponized anthrax spores that were mailed to members of the U.S. Congress following the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the repeated attempted uses of botul Continue Reading...
Chemical and Biological Terroism Biological and Chemical Terrorism Prevention The United States Government has identified the potential of chemical, biological, radiological and/or nuclear (termed CBRN) terrorism, especially after the September 11 Continue Reading...
Biological Weapons: The 'Living' and Pervasive Weapons of Mass Destruction The 'art' and methods of war have indeed gone a long way; from subsisting to crude metals and guns, human society has learned to manipulate Nature by using as one of its weap Continue Reading...
organism produces botulinum toxin? Briefly describe this organism. Where did the name of the organism come from? Is the organism aerobic or anaerobic? Botulinum toxin is produced by the anaerobic, rod-shaped Clostridium botulinum which is gram posi Continue Reading...
Bacterial Toxins & Damage to Neurons Which bacterial toxins have negative impacts on the human body? This paper reviews those toxins and their effects on human functions. Clinical Diseases Professor F.H. Kayser explains that "Exotoxins" are pa Continue Reading...
" (Science Daily, 2008) it is related that these testing and diagnosis of West Nile in horses assist in the identification of where the disease is spreading and helps in the decision concerning whether to vaccinate horses in an area. Dr. Magnarelli s Continue Reading...
Native Americans in the 18th century contracted smallpox thanks to the U.S. soldiers in Fort Pitt giving them "some blankets and handkerchiefs" that were taken from patents in the infirmary with smallpox (Wheelis). It was a deliberate "attack" and Continue Reading...
Regardless, highly possible plans can be devised could result in huge numbers of deaths that range into the thousands for chemical agents and the hundreds of thousands, or maybe millions, with biological ones6. Bioterrorists have successfully utiliz Continue Reading...
prokaryotes consist of millions of genetically distinct unicellular organisms. A procaryotic cell has five essential structural components: a genome (DNA), ribosomes, cell membrane, cell wall, and some sort of surface layer which may or may not be a Continue Reading...
Management Project in the Health Care Organization Setting This study describes the implementation of a syndromic surveillance system. The syndromic surveillance system collects and analyzes prediagnostic and nonclinical disease indicators, drawing Continue Reading...
Having known the mounting dangers, many public health and bio-terrorism experts, members of Congress and some well-positioned Bush administration officials convey increasing discomfort about what they think are flaws in the country's bio-defenses. O Continue Reading...
Antibiotics Penicillin Mechanism of Action Penicillin G, when injected into the patient, will act against actively proliferating penicillin-sensitive strains of bacteria (Drugs.com, 2011). This does not include several strains of staphylococci pro Continue Reading...
DRNC Scenario Overview of Subject Matter: Biological warfare has got to do with the utilization of a wide range of microorganisms such as fungi, viruses, or bacteria to harm a human target (or in rare cases, to harm plants and animals). Essentially, Continue Reading...
Globalization, Genetic Modification of Crops and Agricultural Hysteria on the Left One of the most telling images in the modern media of recent date, regarding the issue of genetically modified foodstuffs was the sight of silos of genetically modifi Continue Reading...
