During discussions and analyses of infectious diseases, the impact of infectious diseases on society, and concurrently, the effect of society on infectious diseases, offers a glimpse of the overall impact of emerging and re-emerging diseases. When an infectious disease arises in a society, government officials, leaders, scientists, and citizens must work together to accomplish […]
Dracunculiasis, or the Guinea worm disease, is caused by dracunculus medinensis and was first discovered in the 17th century in the coast of West Africa in Guinea. The disease is caused by a parasite known as a copepod that stays in contaminated water and carries the infectious roundworm- these larvae survive by evading the […]
Investigators and scientists in the 1982 Kaposi’s Sarcoma (KS) case study never knew how instrumental their study would be to the rest of the world regarding AIDS and HIV. This first reported case of AIDS resulted in a thorough understanding of the AIDS organism, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, including symptoms and patient history. This extensive […]