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- 6001: Transmission Of Aids
- ... attacks the body's immune system and, over a period of time, destroys it. This disables the body's ability to fight off infections by other germs and the growth of cancers, eventually resulting in death. HOW IS HIV SPREAD? HIV is spread through the exchange of bodily fluids, which contain a high large amount of HIV such as blood, semen and vaginal secretions. The most common means of transmission is ...
- 6002: The General Effects Of Fire On
- ... actual fire. Forests at lower elevations grow faster than those at high elevations. Fire and regrowth are part of a cyclic process like that of the seasons. Regrowth does not mean the fire caused the death of forest by only that it is at a different stage, as natural as that of an old forest. FIRE DAMAGE AMONG TREES Fire damages trees by a combination of crown, root, and cambium damage ...
- 6003: The Aging Process
- ... As these diseases are conquered, far more people will live to their full potential life span and remain active and healthy for life. A lot is known about the diseases that affect people and cause death. Much less is known about real aging because it involves fundamental cell processes that are quite complex. However, this mystery of life is being unraveled and will offer opportunities in the future that were once ...
- 6004: Effects Of Smoking
- ... the larynx, chronic bronchitis, emphysema and coronary heart disease. The hazards of these diseases increase with the quantity of cigarettes smoked and the length of time the habit is continued. Smoking related diseases cause the death of more than 400,000 Americans in 1994. Almost everyone knows that smoking is hazardous to their health and can cause lung cancer, along with many other diseases. Smoking is responsible for 30 percent of ...
- 6005: Effects Of Secondhand Smoke
- ... not fully developed. Asthma is more likely to develop with children who breathe secondhand smoke (www.alaw.org). It can also exacerbate frequent attacks. Babies are three times more likely to die form Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) if their mothers smoke during pregnancy. Ear infection, coughs, sore throat and even cancer can also develop if children are expose to secondhand smoke. With all these harmful effects of secondhand smoke to ...
- 6006: Ebola Virus
- ... kidneys become limited, and internal and external bleeding starts. The blood no longer clots and that obviously causes serious problems. Capillaries start to bleed which leads to the loss of intravascular volume, and then soon death, all within 17 days of infection. Fatal cases (70%-90%) are due to shock, internal bleeding, and an acute respiratory disorder; those at the serious stage of the attack are often delirious, combative and difficult ...
- 6007: Endocrine Disruptors
- ... born infants showed that percentage of total DDT and aldrin in the specimen was significantly greater in the stillborn infants (Saxena et al., 1983). The researchers suggest that the high pesticide concentration contributed to the death of the infants. Estrogenic pesticides can have detrimental reproductive effects on adult animals. Chronic exposure of rhesus monkeys to dioxin causes a dosage-dependent increase in the severity and occurrence of endometriosis (Kamrin Unknown). The ...
- 6008: Ebola Virus
- ... virus spread. In Western Sudan, the same year, the Sudan string of the Ebola virus emerged with similar results. Both casts together had about a total of 550 infections and around 340 deaths (about 60% death rate). The virus' then lay dormant till 1979, when Sudan was again hit with 34 infections and 22 deaths. In the outbreak, as before, the fatality rate was about 60% (Mussillami, www.lfc.edu) In ...
- 6009: Oil Spills
- ... the Exxon Valdez spill was nothing more than a living nightmare. In the first month after the wreck, rescuers estimated 15,000 otters killed in the area of Prince William Sound. Following that was the death of over 100 bald eagles and 36,000 seabirds of all kinds, which leads to an uncountable number of deaths. Oil spills can also destroy recreation sites, especially beaches. For example, the Exxon Valdez spill ...
- 6010: Cloning
- ... heart attack by cloning the specific tissue cells and injecting them into damaged area of the heart, thus causing the tissue in those areas to regenerate. Considering that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S.(New England Journal of Medicine 1998), the implementation of these life saving techniques would be a major break through in the medical professions fight against heart disease. The fields of cosmetic ...
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