- •Introduction
- •Infectious diseases of childhood
- •Exercises
- •II. Check if you remember the meaning of the following words:
- •Exercises
- •III. Translate the sentences paying attention to the underlined words:
- •Influenza
- •Words to be memorized
- •Exercises
- •I. Answer the following questions
- •III. Match the underlined words and their Russian
- •IV. Find the sentences where “to be” may be translated as “должен”
- •V. Choose the correct verb form
- •VI. Fill in the gaps with English equivalents to «может», «должен»
- •Pneumonia
- •Words to be memorized
- •Read correctly
- •Exercises
- •IV. Translate into Russian paying attention to the meaning of the underlined words:
- •V. Match the underlined words with their Russian equivalents and translate the sentences:
- •Words to be memorized
- •Exercises
- •II. Translate into Russian paying attention to the underlined werds.
- •III. Translate the sentences into Russian paying attention to a)"it".
- •VII. Translate into Russian
- •VIII. Translate into English
- •Chicken-pox
- •Words to be memorized
- •Read correctly
- •IV. Translate from Russian into English:
- •Scarlet fever
- •Words to be memorized
- •Read correctly
- •Exercises
- •III. Translate the following sentences:
- •Measles
- •Words to be memorised
- •Exercises
- •III. Read the text and say what new information it contains as compared with the previous text:
- •VI. Read the text and speak about the diagnosis and treatment of meningococcal infections
- •Part II the origin of infections
- •Infections in children
- •Acute Tonsillitis
- •Diphtheria
- •Bronchitis
- •Acute bronchitis
- •Chronic bronchitis
- •Bronchial asthma General Considerations
- •Clinical Findings
- •Acute viral hepatitis
- •Is "thucydides syndrome" back?
- •Immunization against contagious diseases
- •Influenza virus vaccine for all ages
- •Vaccines for adult diseases
- •Part III контрольные задания
- •Introduction
- •Measles and models
- •Egyptian travellers
- •Vaccine sensitivity
- •1. The Common Cold.
- •1. Common2. Last 3, numerous 4. Colds 5. Sore 6. Virus
- •13. Treated 14. Nurse 15. Caused
- •2. Sore Throat.
- •1. Common 2. To swallow 3. Recom- 4. Plenty of 5. Caused 6. To relieve
- •7. Glands 8. Older 9. Treated 10. Sore 11. Swollen 12. Better
- •13. Reduce 14. High 15. Most
- •3. Croup.
- •1. Never 7. Hot
- •1. Acute2. Problems 3. Feverish 4. Otitis 5. Pain 6; common
- •7. Affected 8. Causes 9. Suffer 10. Due to 11. Untreated 12. Colds
- •13. Complain.
- •5. Measles.
- •1. Cold
- •7. German measles (Rubella).
- •8. Chickenpox.
- •1. Watery 2. Illness 3. Appear 4. Drop off 5. Infectious 6. Badly
- •Is it essential to repeat the Smallpox vaccine, if it does not errupt the first time and at what age should we repeat triple antigen vaccine?
- •Is Booster-shot required after bcg too?
- •Test 'immunization'
- •3. Bcg inoculation reaction was very 3. The child was suffering from cold, marked. Cough and diarrhea.
- •4. The Smallpox vaccination was repeated 4. Pertussis vaccine may be dangerous. Every six weeks and later every three
- •It is not advisable to give dpt after 5. Protection against the disease is six years of age. Provided only for six months.
- •9. At the worst 9. Что касается 10. Make it certain 10. По совету
- •10. Affect 10. Нести, переносить
- •Kd (Kawasaki Disease)
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- •Самостоятельная работа 4
- •Самостоятельная работа 5.
- •Background
- •Methods
- •Results
- •Discussion
- •Risk of hiv infection
- •Active vocabulary to part I
- •4. Incubation period, the susceptible age
- •5. Ways of transmission
- •6. Onset and symptoms
- •7. Eruption
- •8. Nursing
- •9. Treatment
- •10. Prognosis
- •Introduction
Is "thucydides syndrome" back?
For centuries, historians and scientists have puzzled over the calamitous plague of Athens, which decimated the ancient city-state between 430 and 427 B.C. As vividly described by the historian Thucydides, himself a survivor of the illness, the plague attacked suddenly, causing "violent heats" in the head, inflammation of the eyes and throat, "reddish, livid" skin, extreme diarrhea and high fever. Historians agree that the epidemic, which killed the great statesman Pericles, contributed to the fall of Athens in the Peloponnesian War. But there is no agreement on its cause. Was it smallpox? Scarlet fever? Typhus? Measles?
A more exotic explanation was posed in the "New England Journal of Medicines in 1985 by Dr. Alexander Langmuir, formerly chief epidemiologist at the Centres for Disease Control in Atlanta. Thucydides' description, Langmuir theorized., fit the criteria for influenza complicated by toxic shock syndrome. And although this
peculiar combination of ailments had never been observed by modern physicians, Langmuir predicted that "Thucydides syndrome", as he called it, "may reappear", perhaps as part of some future epidemic of influenza.
The Delphian oracle could not have been more clairvoyant. In a recent issue of the "Journal of the American Medical Association", doctors at the Minnesota Department of Health, and the University of Virginia reported a total of ten cases of suspected Thucydides syndrome — flu complicated by TSS. Nine of the cases .occurred during a major influenza outbreak in Minnesota in the winter of 1985 —1986. One occurred in Roanoke, Va., and an eleventh case, in Oregon, has since been reported to the CDC. Like the Athenian scourge, the two-part illness was tethal: six of the patients died. Langmuir says the apparent fulfillment of his prophecy had him "blown over like a feather".
Though most U.S. cases of toxic shock occur in menstruating women, often in conjunction with the use of tampons, this was not true of the flu victims. Four of the eleven were males, and only two of the females were menstruating at the time they fell ill (both said they were not using tampons). The patients ranged in age from five to 56, but most of the deaths were among children. Says Dr. Kristine MacDonald of the Minnesota Department of Health: "There is some suggestion that younger people are more susceptible to TSS. As people get older, more of them have antibodies to protect them". Indeed most adults are immune to the syndrome.
TSS is caused by a toxin-producing strain of the common bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, carried benignly in the respiratory and genital tracts of perhaps one out of three people. Under certain conditions — a wound, some infections, the presence of a tampon or contraceptive sponge — the bacteria multiply. If the toxin-producing strain is present, such proliferation can lead to TSS. The symptoms are dramatic and develop quickly: high fever, a sunburn-like rash, severe vomiting and diarrhea, culminating in shock, in which blood pressure plummets and circulation deteriorates. Doctors usually try to head off this life-threatening conditions by administering intravenous -fluids with electrolytes, and sometimes drugs to restore blood pressure.
MacDonald speculates that the influenza virus can injure the throat or lungs in a way that favors the growth of S. aureus. Though the complication appears to be rare, it is urgent that doctors be aware of it, says TSS Expert Bruce Dan, in an editorial that accompanied MacDonald's paper. Early recognition and treatment of the syndrome "is the most important factor in being able to prevent fatalities", says Dan. "It behooves all physicians to be on
the lookout for any influenza patient whose condition suddenly worsens".