Question: identify data sources, gather process and analyse information from secondary sources to describe one named infectious disease in terms of its:
o cause
o transmission
o host response
o major symptoms
o treatment
o prevention
o control
Infectious Disease: AIDS (Accquired Immunodefiency Syndrome)
Cause: AIDS is caused by the retrovirus HIV (HUman Immunodefiency Virus) which contains RNA rather than DNA. Once it enters the body it targets cells and infilitrates theri DNA with its DNA rsulting in the virus continously being replicated.
Transmission: AIDS is a fatal transmissabl;e disease of the immune system which is non contagouius. It is transmiteed by diect transfer of bodily fluids such as blood and semen. The main methods of trasmission are sex and syrning sharing. Alos through pregnanct to child.
Host response: It target the t helper cells and HIV virus bind to specific receptros on surfaced of t cells destroying them and hence lowering immune system leadingf to indicaul left sussceptilbe to infection and eventual death.
Major symptoms:
- sweats/fever
-diarrhoea
-swollen lymph glands
-fatigue
-dementia and kaposis sarcoma
TReatemnmet: Currnetly no cure against AIDS but there are drug therpaies and test to stem effects of AIDS.
Prevenrtion:
- use condoms and practice monagmy
-do not share needles
women should take antiretroviral drugs if sufferes during pregancnt and use baby formulas for milk
Contrtol: PUblic health programs have reduced number of AIDS cases worldwide and this most effecive control method by warninfg people of cause and transmission methods
o cause
o transmission
o host response
o major symptoms
o treatment
o prevention
o control
Infectious Disease: AIDS (Accquired Immunodefiency Syndrome)
Cause: AIDS is caused by the retrovirus HIV (HUman Immunodefiency Virus) which contains RNA rather than DNA. Once it enters the body it targets cells and infilitrates theri DNA with its DNA rsulting in the virus continously being replicated.
Transmission: AIDS is a fatal transmissabl;e disease of the immune system which is non contagouius. It is transmiteed by diect transfer of bodily fluids such as blood and semen. The main methods of trasmission are sex and syrning sharing. Alos through pregnanct to child.
Host response: It target the t helper cells and HIV virus bind to specific receptros on surfaced of t cells destroying them and hence lowering immune system leadingf to indicaul left sussceptilbe to infection and eventual death.
Major symptoms:
- sweats/fever
-diarrhoea
-swollen lymph glands
-fatigue
-dementia and kaposis sarcoma
TReatemnmet: Currnetly no cure against AIDS but there are drug therpaies and test to stem effects of AIDS.
Prevenrtion:
- use condoms and practice monagmy
-do not share needles
women should take antiretroviral drugs if sufferes during pregancnt and use baby formulas for milk
Contrtol: PUblic health programs have reduced number of AIDS cases worldwide and this most effecive control method by warninfg people of cause and transmission methods