infectious diseases Essays - Tropical Diseases, Epidemiology, RTT

Running Head Mosquitoes on the Go (Your Name (Your School (Your Instructor (Your Course )Abstract The number of illness in the world continues to increase while it has been very hard to find cure for each one more new diseases came to further weaken the whole humanity . The reason of having this paper is to further understand and share information regarding four diseases which dates back in the past years and already affected several people and killed some of the human population . Malaria , Yellow Fever , West Nile and Filariasis are only four among the several diseases in the world which could lead to a person ?s death and shattered life . Upon reading this paper , a better understanding and new learning regarding these diseases will be earned . Also , the paper has several precautions to prevent ourselves from contracting these diseases .Mosquitoes on the Go People are very vulnerable to diseases which remind us that we are human and one of these days we will come to our end . Sci entists and medical doctors are trying their best to further find cures for the different illness that the humanity experiences in our everyday life but , sometimes , it is really not a lucky day . More than a million people dies each year due to several diseases such as infections and virus contractions and sometimes , it makes the people wonder where these illnesses came from and once they found out the root ,they immediately launched a study to deepen the research and to know the reasons and the ways to prevent their attack . One of the common carriers of virus is none other than the mosquitoes .They can easily transmit these deadly viruses by biting humans or others which belongs to the animal kingdom . Aside from this fact , mosquitoes live everywhere whether it ?s warm or cold and because of these , they have much more contact to their victims . Although not all diseases came from mosquitoes , these four infections that we are about to tackle are commonly transmitted through m osquitoes thus , the idea of mosquitoes as killers of human beings and humanity would not go away even if some are contracted through other means . What Filariasis , Malaria , Yellow Fever and West Nile have in common is the main idea that they are all commonly transmitted through mosquitoes and are all infectious . They could kill people and most of all they unknowingly attack those who belong in rural areas and are hard to reach places which make the cure of the disease impossible or hard .Filariasis Even in the past , Filariasis already existed and it was really endemic in Alexandria and it was during the encounter of Greek physicians with the Arabs when they found out about this disease but since they don ?t really have direct contact with the disease , they thought that it was leprosy . The real encounter of the westerners with Filariasis began in the 18th to 19th century when the physicians in Europe become exposed with the different infections that they saw?