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Communicable Diseases Surveillance and No
Today the mortality rate in both Indonesia and the world as a global relative increase annually, this is good because of the accident, the aging process that causes weakness of the organ function or because of suffering from various diseases. We know the various kinds of diseases and call names either infectious diseases or illnesses are not contagious.
Infectious diseases, also known as infectious diseases in medical terms is a disease caused by a biological agent (such as viruses, bacteria or parasites), not due to physical factors (such as burns and trauma impact) or chemical (such as poisoning) which can transmitted or transmitted to others through certain media such as air (TB, Influenza etc.), places to eat and drink less clean washing (Hepatitis, Typhoid / Types, etc.), needles and blood transfusion (HIV Aids, Hepatitis, etc.).
The disease is not contagious illness patients generally caused congenital / descent, disability due to errors birth process, the effects of various drug use or consumption of food and beverages, including smoking, stress conditions that cause mental disorders. Furthermore we will discuss one by one, various kinds of diseases are either not infectious or contagious disease that often affects people,
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Creutzfeldt Know
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a degenerative neurological disorder that is very rare and incurable.
Spongiform encephalopathy infectious disease is caused by prions, which are often referred to as prion diseases. Other prion diseases include Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome-Scheinker (GSS), fatal familial insomnia and kuru in humans, as well as cattle spongiform encephalopathy commonly known as mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, and scrapie in sheep.
Prions are believed to cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease at least 2 shows a stable conformations. Conformation in the native state, is water soluble and present in healthy cells. Until 2006, no known biological function. Other circumstances konformatif less water soluble and easily forms a protein aggregate.
People also can contract Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease through gene mutation (needs to be defined), which only occurs in 5-10% of all cases.
CJD prion is dangerous because it increases the protein from folding into a state of illness, which causes the increase of insoluble prions in affected cells. The mass of misfolded proteins disrupts cell function and cause death. Mutations in the gene for the prion protein folding can lead to mistakes mostly alpha-helical regions into beta pleated sheets. Changes in conformation disables the ability of the protein to undergo digestion. Once the prion is transmitted, the defective proteins invade the brain and are produced in the feedback loop is supported himself, causing exponential spread of prions, death within a few months, although some people known to live for ever 2 years.
Stanley B. Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for the discovery prionnya. More than 1 decade, University neuropathologist Laura Manuelidis Yale dubious explanation for the disease. In January 2007 he and his colleagues published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and reported that they found a similar virus particles (but so far without finding nucleic acids) in less than 10% strains of scrapie-infected cells and in mouse cell strains infected agent of CJD from humans.
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Hunger Edema in Children
Malnutrition fungi or edema, as is common, or signs of marasmus and kwashiorkor in Indonesia phenomenon could be attributed to chronic protein deficiency in children is usually caused by several things, among other things, the cause is not enough food nutritious for children, children do not have enough nutrition and child care with an infectious disease in May.
Direct cause may be due to natural disasters, the purchasing power of citizens, education, environment and health.
How to detect persons with malnutrition among children in a way that weighs on a regular basis, whether the relationship of weight with age below 60% (WHO standard NCHS), then the child may say or malnutrition by measuring height and arm circumference (purple), if not in accordance with the rules of normal children under 14 cm (standard WHO NCHS) gently suggested that malnutrition is producing.
Sequence of the effects of hunger in the berakibatkan reducing the level of intelligence of children, night blindness and diseases are especially vulnerable to infectious diseases. In line with the WHO, when the number reaches 30% expressed and needs for further action.
Prevention may be achieved by providing nutritious foods to children, such as vegetables, fruits, foods containing carbohydrates (like rice, potatoes, corn), protein-rich foods (eggs, fish, meat, etc), it is recommended that breastfeeding feeding (ASI) for children from 0 to 24 months.