Showing posts with label Covid-19. Show all posts
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May 16, 2021

Essay: Dengue Fever Symptoms and Treatment

This is an essay. Don't take this advice for your treatment.

Introduction:

Dengue is the most common mosquito borne virus in the U.S. and Latin America. Dengue is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, which are small, fat, winged insects that are about the size of a dime. The disease is spread through the bites of the mosquito. The virus is transmitted by saliva. Both Aedes mosquitoes and humans can become infected with this virus. Dengue can be prevented by wearing long sleeves and pants when traveling to areas where the virus is present.

Symptoms:

Essay: Dengue Fever Symptoms and Treatment

Dengue is a viral disease that mainly affects children and pregnant women. Women who are pregnant should avoid contact with pregnant women and women who are pregnant. People with compromised immune systems and people with other illnesses, such as diabetes, should avoid contact with people with Dengue. Dengue is a disease of the midline areas of the body including the lungs, brain and joints. The symptoms of the disease include headache, joint pain, fever and rash. It is transmitted through mosquito bites. It is the second leading cause of child birth-related deaths, after malaria.

Prevention:

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Dengue fever can be treated with fluids and medications that fight the disease. Dengue can be prevented by using mosquito nets and using insect repellents. The symptoms of the disease can be controlled with diet and exercise. Exercise will strengthen the immune system and reduce fever and symptoms of the disease. The prevention of Dengue is a way to stay away from the signs of the disease. People who have the disease can be treated with medications and fluids. All the symptoms of the disease are treatable and the drugs used are antibiotics.

Symptoms of Dengue Fever:

The most common symptoms of Dengue are the headache, joint pain, fever and rash. The signs are fever, joint pain, headache, rash, body aches, neck stiffness and diarrhea. These are some of the basic symptoms of the disease.

Dengue Fever Treatment:

The treatment of Dengue fever are medications and fluids. The medications are given to reduce the body pain and reduce the fever. If the diarrhea is present, it will be treated using drugs. This means that the fever, joint pain and body aches are reduce in the body. In rare cases, death of the person is reported in the cases of severe infection. There are drugs and fluids available for the severe infections of Dengue fever.

Dengue prevention measures include taking mosquito nets and staying inside during times of high mosquito activity. The mosquitoes for the disease feed during daytime hours and are active in the early evening and late evening. These are the periods when the people with the Dengue virus are most likely to be affected by the disease. To avoid infection, people should also take medication and drink fluids.

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May 15, 2021

Essay: What is Herd Immunity and Global Vaccine Campaigns

This is an essay and cannot be used as medical treatment or related cases.

What is Herd Immunity:

When most of a population is immune to an infectious disease like corona virus (COVID-19), then herd immunity provides indirect protection or population immunity to those who are not immune to the disease. This occurs when about 95% of the population is infected, but few individuals are symptomatic, according to a study in the Journal of Virology. This study compared the incidence of COVID-19 antibodies in people who were acutely ill with COVID-19 and those who were not, and found the same proportion of people.

Antibodies against COVID-19

Essay: What is Herd Immunity and Global Vaccine Campaigns

When COVID-19 was isolated from serum samples taken from people who had been clinically ill, antibody titers to COVID-19 were similar. This was observed in people who were asymptomatic and those who had recovered from the disease. This suggests that people in whom the virus had been detected may have acquired antibodies against COVID-19. This has important implications for disease control because some people will be unaware of having contracted the virus and will remain immune. This can result in a disease outbreak.

Study of how antibodies may help to the herd immunity:

A study published in the Journal of Virology reported the titers of antibodies in the serum samples of people who had been exposed to respiratory coronavirus in a outbreak in Saudi Arabia. Twenty of 25 serum samples collected from people with possible exposure to the respiratory virus had COVID-19 antibodies, and three of these were positive for antibodies to both COVID-19 and a related coronavirus. These titers were similar in the asymptomatic and clinical groups. Thus antibodies may help to explain the population immunity observed in this outbreak.

Study of presence of antibodies:

The same research team also measured serum antibodies to the flavivirus species Fuziwara and Nipah, a related flavivirus closely related to COVID, in a Saudi outbreak of pneumonia, and found similar titers. This suggests that antibodies may be present against several flavivirus subtypes in the Saudi outbreak.

Serum antibodies to Nipah and Fuziwara viruses

The Saudi study also measured serum antibodies to Nipah and Fuziwara viruses. The studies show that Saudi Arabia has successfully acquired population immunity against Nipah and Fuziwara. This was an important finding, because these viruses are closely related to COVID and previous studies have shown no evidence of large-scale vaccination against either virus.

Two competing views:

Some scientists are wondering if large-scale vaccination programs are needed in Saudi Arabia, given the similar gene sequences to COVID and known subtypes of the viruses. However, other scientists question if we have reached the threshold where additional vaccination programs are not only warranted, but likely to be beneficial. The two competing views are presented here:

View 1.

The Saudi outbreak is unique in that it is the first large-scale human infection with a virus that causes a respiratory illness, causing an outbreak with very high mortality. In addition, the virus strain involved was not circulating before, suggesting that this virus did not cause a large-scale vaccination program.

View 2.

If, as is suspected, the virus is antigenically similar to COVID, the possibility of a future vaccine may exist, and the effort in establishing the present vaccine may have been more than offset by the benefit of future immunity.

Vaccine programs for coxsackievirus:

Of course, the issue is whether the resulting vaccine would offer the same immunity against other large-scale viruses like COVID. I think it does. In fact, when I first looked at the issue of possible Saudi vaccine programs for coxsackievirus, I thought that a Saudi vaccination program was unlikely, given the fact that coxsackievirus is antigenically very different from coxsackievirus. It did not occur to me that antibodies from a Saudi outbreak of coxsackievirus might be protective, because coxsackievirus has no known common ancestor. But if it does, then Saudi Arabia's immune system has a natural defense against it. And it is natural in a way that would not occur if there had been a common antigenic ancestor and a current vaccine.

An important vaccine -pneumococcal conjugate vaccines:

For the most part, the Saudi outbreak, the recent West African outbreak, and the coming Asian outbreak will not affect our future vaccination programs. But there is one vaccine that has the potential to become important, and that is the pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. These vaccines are part of a new line of vaccines that are used to prevent bacterial infections. These vaccines would also have the benefit of being protective against coxsackievirus. And if that happens, it would be an event of huge significance for our health.

pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is capable of eradication:

There is a real possibility that the first large-scale vaccination program with a pneumococcal vaccine would occur in the very near future. It is called the "Advantage Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Pneumovax)," and it was licensed in February of 2006. This vaccine, although not yet licensed or approved, has the potential to be the largest and most sweeping pneumococcal vaccination program ever created. The intent of this vaccine is to create a program that would be highly successful in protecting against bacterial infections. It would be highly protective (in a sense that means it would confer lifelong protection) and it is capable of eradication.

Future of Vaccination

These types of vaccines could be the future of vaccination, and as such, they are something to keep an eye on. A vaccine that can protect against coxsackievirus is also a very good thing, and one that is very close to being licensed and being used in mass vaccinations.

The world's largest vaccination program against pneumococcal conjugate vaccines is also being planned for the future. This will be managed by the CDC in collaboration with the Canadian and Australian health authorities. There is a vaccine called Prevnar. This is an injectable vaccine and would be used for immunization against pneumococcus. The vaccine was licensed in March of 2005. When approved, it would be very large, with coverage rates of about 90% at the recommended ages.

Prevnar Vaccine developed in Denmark:

There are some vaccines that are not yet licensed or approved, and they may not become available for several years. One is a new type of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine called Prevnar. This is a new vaccine that was developed in Denmark. It is a very promising vaccine, and is designed to create immunity against pneumococcus. This is a vaccine that has the possibility of eradication, but clinical trials are still ongoing. So the outlook for protection is not completely clear yet. The question of eradication is also being raised for another vaccine called Flublok, which is manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur and is an injectable vaccine. There is also a vaccine called Tamiflu, which is a very rapid series vaccine that should give high levels of protection against the flu. It is hoped that it will provide more protection than currently provided by the seasonal flu shot.

Conclusion:

As you can see, there are many vaccines being tested or being considered for mass vaccination programs. This is a good thing, and we should be glad that some of these vaccines are being done.

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Nov 28, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic Turned Institution into Virtual World Essay

This essay is written in the manner of Charles Lamb, an English author and essayist.

Worldwide covid-19 pandemic seized the wheel of world and imposition of Lockdown compelled people to enter a new arena called the virtual world. Urgent implementation of lockdown strategies to take the edge off the blow out hereupon resulted in an unexpected transition from classroom teaching to online education. Discerning the cruciality of education as it cannot be abruptly ceased, UNESCO recommended the use of distance learning programs and applications.

One day while attending the lecture of Neel C_e maam's class made me ruminate over my school and college days memories. I was listening to the lecture but at the same time methought that I was in the estate of thinking about the college days and the things which I was missing the most was the board not a black one but green in colour. It is broken at the right top corner but still it is ours students of English department thinking about the room number 412.

The daily meeting with blackboard and it staring me and the students. It is who takes pain for us because of the points inscribed on it and getting dirty with chalk dust and cleaned every day.

Distance Learning


We the students asunder now due to pandemic have to vacant the table, benches, chalk, duster , walls of room number 412 and off course the board. Coronavirus monster made me realise others importance in life. What I am doing now is attending the classes in Google meet by clicking a link instead of reaching the college campus physically boarding the bus in the public Rush. Now sitting at home in the wintry season I'm listening to the lectures sometimes (or I could say seldom) make me feel otiose. The appetite for online classes decreased in comparison to earlier. My present estate made me think of the bygone days in the presence of batch 2019-2020 which cherished the room of E. department and scribbled on the body of board.

Condition of the world became like this, "Once ‘free’ in the streets, what then? Fear and panic could destroy the city as much as plague itself. Many of the doctors fled, along with the rich and powerful; quacks preyed on the poor with their neverfail miracle drugs. Churches and conventicles and synagogues were empty. Neighbours informed against each other. People lied to each other – and to themselves. (It’s just a headache. Just a little bruise. I’ll feel better if I go for a walk.) Worse – there were stories of infected people deliberately concealing their telltale ‘tokens’ and going out into the streets trying to infect others." The most important thing everyone noticed that society failed to manage panic and fear of corona disease. Society and officials have taken it into account much beyond the limit of an abnormal situations. In this kind of situation, media must be controlled to not to increase fear among the society for a gain of TRP.

Earlier when the lockdown was imposed I enjoyed relaxation and comfort of home and it's coziness. I also attended seminars on woolf's Mrs dalloway and Pinaki de's special session on graphic novels. I learnt about technique of writing which is stream of consciousness as it is said that she was one of the most distinctive writers of the English Literature using the technique masterfully and also learning about the graphic novel and how to interpret it. I had read some of the comics but was ignorant of the fact that comics are part of graphic novels.And offcourse, the exceptional lecture on postcolonialism by "Bills Ascroft".

Online classes first seemed to me interesting because it was a novel thing . Everyone along with me was curious about the classes. It commenced with the zoom app then proceeded towards the conference call and at last Google meet.

Study materials which we used to see on the blackboard and received as xerox came in PDF format. I felt privileged that every one of us recieved the materials but at the same time I dearly missed the teacher's handwritten expressions on the blackboard with love and kindness when each day a new topic was taught. Professor M.'s lovely expressions when she used to forget and we reminded her of the points. When she used to ask" what I was saying???" and Professor R.'s sir lectures and the hurriedness to pen down every points. D. ma'am giving simplified notes to make us clear the concepts. A. ma'am's energy in her teaching and last but not the least Neel C_e ma'am taking us to another realm of the world. The ways she used to enhance our imaginations , group activities, recitation competition, and of course the heart rendering song"My Heart Will Go On"

Restrospecting The memories, the campus, cottage-styled garden of E. Department and roaming in the building corridor made me miss those auspicious days. Green lush covering the garden. The flowers -chrysanthemum, petunia, and China rose enticing me while I behold them. The backside of the college building covered with gentry strands of sakhua trees and the greenish yellow glebe ( playground) makes me feel the exoticism of nature. My Gentry pals who are engaged in their gossips and having their savoury spicy panipuris.

I cannot say that the lock down period was boring , but it was devastating. I think after the season of fall, and In these wintry days this lockdown due to coronavirus monster is choking me or I can say it is choking us all, the humanity.

The classroom board came before me and it seemed the scribblings on the board is calling back the kids.

I felt the approach to studies changed, became strategic and flexible. But all these things are less in comparison to the traditional but cozy method of receiving education. The days which could be attended supposedly in room no.412 will never come. The blackboard started to fade away, going avaunt saying " you are not pen ing down matters inscribed on me, there is nothing written; less than a nothing .I am only what might have been in your life." My reflex worked suddenly and I looked at my side but there was none but me sitting in my living room with my phone in my left hand and pen in my right, earplugs in my ears and notebook on my lap.

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Oct 25, 2020

Essay on "Is Lockdown a Solution of COVID-19 (Corona Virus -19)"

Lockdown is a brake to the spread activity of covid-19 and it is not a solution at all , However it is a part of the solution depending on the resources available in any country. As the effect of the virus was new and panic in public was at high level , Governments of many country took decision to impose the lockdown to have a time for planning to find a solution of this problem. Few countries in the world had confusion for choosing Lockdown or no Lockdown for a solution of COVID-19? This is a great matter of concern. As a thinker for the welfare of society, it is our duty to express my views to the society.

COVID-19 means corona virus disease 2019

It is being tried to write a perception as a method of solving this issue. It may not be right but a small step is the first way of finding and reaching the destination.

Lockdown has certain advantages which are listed below:
  • Lockdown provides us time space to find its solution.
  • Lockdown is a full brake against its spread.
  • Lockdown reduces the number of COVID-19 cases that reduce pressure on Doctors, Nurses and Hospitals.
  • Lockdown can stop sever damage that might be happen in case huge spread that means community level spread.
people on road during lockdown
Lockdown has many disadvantages too. These are listed below.
  • Lockdown is almost a brake to the vehicle of economy.
  • Lockdown breaks the smooth chain of business activities; which is very hard to streamline quickly with 100%.
  • Lockdown is a killer for the poor section of the society if life saving arrangement does not organised at war level.
  • Lockdown take away employment, which is a high risk for countries which already are suffering from unemployment problem.
  • Lockdown is very serious for the patient during the pandemic situation like COVID-19 when doctors refuse to attend a patient having other diseases and police demand many certificates on road.
  • Fear creates big issue even for carrying out allowed food and medical related businesses
  • In Lockdown real pictures of many places remain invisible to the media person.
  • New laws create many confusions amongst the people as they actually do not know what to follow and what to not.
  • Lockdown may throw the economy into a vicious circle of failure of the business chain.
Personal Opinion:

This is a complete personal view of the writer. The lockdown period would have been for short period of time which would be economically viable and thereafter no lockdown would have been adopted to solve this complexity with strong teamwork to perform as it to be imagined as a war like situation. The details are explained below one by one.

Imposing Lockdown by many countries was not a healthy decision:

Long period lockdown could be avoided if proper logic based on past data would be adopted. I am sure if scientific thought without fear would be adopted then there would be NO LOCKDOWN at all. The logic of not implementing lockdown is that common men need money and socio-economic balance to fight with the virus or any problem of ours society. Resources and money are the result of smooth running of production houses, manufacturing industries and small businesses, therefore according to my perception countrywide or zone wise lockdown is not going to be a solution, the world leaders had to think about this with the world class economic team. If a person will have soaps then he will clean his hands because, need to live is more important than protection of life. Need supports the life expentency and protection and safety come after span of life. World should never go for a long period of lockdown at similar kind of situation for unending virus presence. History reveals that the virus never vanishes. It is because ultimately our body has to fight with the virus after a few times then why not do the same thing a little before.

Note:The most important thing everyone noticed that society failed to manage panic and fear of corona disease. Society and officials have taken it into account much beyond the limit of an abnormal situations. In this kind of situation, media must be controlled to not to increase fear among the society for a gain of TRP. The situation of normalcy in society is one of the most important factors for a stable, prosperous, and peaceful human society. It must be addressed in a more clever manner by any government.

The activities that would have been focussed are detailed below:

Testing : Whome to be tested.

While preparing for solution method it is to identify first who is infected and who is healthy. That means there must be a smart thinking process of keeping people less contacted physically and testing would be only done to the identified person having the symptoms of Covid-19. There would have been local arrangement in schools, college, society hall etc. But testing must be done very economically because a large number of testing needs a large number of testing kits which are not available during COVID-19 in sufficient numbers. Therefore unwanted testing can be avoided by applying symptoms and quarantine methods to isolate healthy and unhealthy persons. It requires a quick creation of quarantine centers with food supply and medical facilities.

Young people need not be tested as the recovery data shows that the maximum (about 80%) of young people are not entering into a critical stage. These people need not be tested until mild symptoms to avoid unnecessary panic amongst them. Panic decreases the immunity of a person. Media people must be silenced by their tonal presentation to minimize panic so that medical personnel may not dip into fear. This is a more important matter that must be addressed cautiously.

These majority of mildly affected people can help society by self home quarantine/isolation. The government should provide a local body with a doctor at the ward level for asking self home quarantine to these types of people.

Medical Treatment:

Next comes, Is there any medicine or method available to cure the infected patients? As far as information available at present, there is no vaccine or proper medicines available in the market. That means the people are left with the alternative of trial and error method of optional medicine (HydroxyChloroquine) of a similar kind on a patient. Many of us are not doctors but information floating in the media has enough know-how for a common educated person to think on these activities which is going in hospitals.

The patient must not be enclosed in a less ventilated room. The life saving things are fresh air and sunlight and these two things are must be provided irrespective of shutting down the normal patient into a room. Trees and gardens are the best places for normal patients. In this way, the patient will remain with normal behavior and with high immunity and the cost of managing a high number of the patient will be minimum.

Management

I think more people can be saved by their natural immune if proper isolation facility and proper food facility and management with medical labor force are available rather than applying improper medicine. The medicine needs to be applied only on critical patients only. In this case, home isolation will work more effectively rather than hospitals because managing a large number of patients of COVID-19 will not work as the medical staff will not deliver his proper duty due to fear of this disease which was noticed from many spots. A doctor's help in society for medical instruction will do a lot.

How we would have to systemize the food and needy goods distribution to poor people during lockdown:

No, any new program and policy can be systemized quickly. Therefore we should use the available program and system available in the country. If I would have been told to systemise the problem and its condition then I would have chosen the police and force officers for this job. And I would have authorized these people(police/army men etc) to expend for food and other needed goods and reimburse the cost weekly after distribution, It is because these people are in direct contact with the poor people locked here and there. That means the backward system will work more efficiently rather than top to bottom flow system; which involves corruption activities. In this way, the people's movement would be stopped.

We would have enforced an online complaint system for the people against the private organization; which are stopping the payment of the small workers during the lockdown. For this, we would have utilized the digital India program connected with the big chain of business people to help these poor illiterate people.

Research and Development:

Research and development to be done to find the death rate categorically (i.e. according to disease). That means there must be a system to know data of the people's deaths and its cause and it must not be politically biased. This type of problem may happen in the future again and again. In that situation, our data will help us to figure out the fact to identify the conspiracy if any exist.

Conclusion:

Damage of the economy cannot be compromised for the probability of disease instead we are living with the disease and have to live with the disease. This is an actual fact. Fear must not surpass the confidence of living. Confidence in people cannot be injected easily whereas injecting fear of death in public is very easy. We must be careful while dealing with fear factor in society. Last but not the least, It is better to die with a full stomach rather than an empty stomach.

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Apr 15, 2020

Short Essay on 'What is Corona Virus' COVID-19

COVID-19 is the disease brought on by the brand-new coronavirus that arose in China in December 2019.

COVID-19 symptoms consist of coughing, high temperature, lack of breath, muscular tissue aches, aching throat, unusual loss of preference or scent, headache and diarrhea. COVID-19 can be severe, as well as some cases have actually triggered the fatality.

Be careful as the new coronavirus can be spread from one person to another person. It is diagnosed with a laboratory test.

There is no coronavirus vaccine. Avoidance entails regular hand-washing, coughing into the bend of your elbow, staying at home when you are sick as well as using a fabric face covering if you can not practice social distancing.

lady with mask to protect herself from corona virus

Coronaviruses are a group of associated viruses that trigger diseases in birds as well as animals. In human beings, coronaviruses cause breathing system infections that can range from moderate to dangerous. Moderate illnesses include some instances of the common cold (which has other feasible causes, primarily rhinoviruses), while much more deadly ranges can create SARS, MERS, and also COVID-19. Signs and symptoms in various other types vary: in poultries, they cause an upper respiratory system illness, while in pigs as well as cows they create diarrhea. There are yet to be vaccines or antiviral medications to stop or deal with human coronavirus infections.

Human coronaviruses were uncovered in the 1960s. The earliest ones researched were from human people with the acute rhinitis, which was later on called human coronavirus 229E and human coronavirus OC43. Other human coronaviruses have actually given that been determined, consisting of SARS-CoV in 2003,

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