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- 661: What Causes Infectious Diseases to Strike?
- ... nature known as outbreaks, the link between infectious diseases and the destruction of forests cannot be ignored. The sudden birth of Ebola occurred in 1976, just one year after men began clearing the many African rain forests. Zaire, the country with the fourth highest rate of deforestation in africa has been victim to many Ebola outbreaks, including the first one ever. The Cameroon outbreak was caused by a chimpanzee that wandered ...
- 662: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... cases, thereby greatly lowering the program's sensitivity. Let's see how this could be true. A report of the sensitivity and pvp of isotretinion embryopathy, or birth defects caused by maternal use of retinoic acid. The case definition with the highest pvp had a sensitivity of only about 16 percent 84 percent of all true cases were missed. If the intent of the surveillance is to follow the trends of ...
- 663: The Effects of Teenage Alcoholism
- ... nutritional problems. Alcoholics are often very thin and malnourished. Alcohol fills a person stomach, so that they have no need to eat. Alcohol wastes many important vitamins and minerals. Alcohol wastes vitamin B6 and folic acid, the lack of these can lead to anemia. Anemia is the lack of red blood cells or it can be the inability for red blood cells to carry oxygen. Another nutritional disease caused by alcoholism ...
- 664: AIDS: Is it a Modern Plague?
- ... of the matter. However there is a much more severe and indiscriminate tyrant, with enormous corrupting influence, capable of infiltrating all of civilization. Scientifically, it is a submicroscopic pathogen consisting of a particle of nucleic acid, enclosed in proteins, and able to replicate only within a living cell. Socially, it is responsible for an enormous amount of chaos and fear in the world today, and pronounces the human fault of ignorance ...
- 665: Effects of Drugs on the Body
- ... kill the user. Hallucinogenic drugs cause a person to have hallucinations. For example the user may hear or see things that do not exist. An example of a hallucinogenic drug is LSD. LSD, commonly called "acid," can produce a number of side effects. For example, many LSD users experience "bad trips." This is when the user gets scared or frightened when there is nothing to be frightened by. PCP is another ...
- 666: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus And Mutations
- ... HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV is classified as a RNA Retrovirus. A retrovirus uses RNA templates to produce DNA. For example, within the core of HIV is a double molecule of ribonucleic acid, RNA. When the virus invades a cell, this genetic material is replicated in the form of DNA . But, in order to do so, HIV must first be able to produce a particular enzyme that can ...
- 667: Biofeedback
- ... positioned over the intestines and the client and doctor listen to the activity heard in the organs. Stomach acidity level feedback is to aid in the training of the reduction of the amount of stomach acid in order to reduce ulcer activity. During a biofeedback session, the client is hooked up to the sensors then is told to relax. They are given 10 minutes of relaxation time. During this time many ...
- 668: Steroids
- ... close to the cells-steroids then attach to the cells by receptors. Then draws testosterone into the cell. Then transported to the nucleus. Then the cells machinery begin to run faster and causes new deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to be produced. DNA is the blueprint for making every living proteins. These new proteins are then transported outside the cell and new tissue of muscle is made. Steroids can also increase the production ...
- 669: Aspartame and Olestra: Will We Buy the Bull?
- ... mice in laboratories. Many people have related substitutes to low blood sugar, Alzheimer's, Chronic Fatigue, methanol poisoning and so on. In 1971, John Olney, a research psychiatrist at Washington University found out that aspartic acid, present in aspartame, cause holes in mice's brains. We also think that Olestra causes stomach cramping and diarrhea on some people. The second thing about food substitutes is that they do not give a ...
- 670: The Ebola Virus
- ... kills monkeys, it could change its metabolism into a virus which only kills people. This virus, like AIDS, and most other lethal viruses, came from remote places which are very old such as the African Rain Forest. There is a pattern evolving. When men go exploring in a place where they shouldn't be, something bad happens, like a virus is released. In reality, something is trying to destroy the human ...
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