Pathogens bingo...backafteradozenyrs is our winner!!!

[rcperryls]

none today, which is good in terms of the diseases, but not so good in terms of bingo. Still at 2/10 and still find the information interesting and so glad that we are lucky enough to have modern medicine around.

Carole

[dwitt]

one more today alfway there 5/10

[jocellogirl]

Yip, yip, yipee
I'm now on three!!

[backafteradozenyrs]

BOTH of 'em for today! 6/10....

edited to add: this is the correct count, I'm off before up there somewhere & UNlike my cross-stitching, I am refusing to go my posts!!

[Squirrel]

Got another one today so up to 4/10 now.

[pattiebelle]

one more today ... 3/10 !!! woohoo

[geekishly]

I finally got one!

[yagam1]

No picks for me today. Sitting at 2/10.

[Lessa54]

Ooh, I got both of those - now at 4/10

[Fizzbw]

Wow, I have 3!!!

I'd love to read more about John Snow. Fascinating.

Niki x

[nachosmiley]

Todays picks are....5 and 13!

5. Campylobacter jejuni

The Campylobacter jejuni bacterium is one of the leading cause of diarrhoea. Other symptoms often present are fever, abdominal pain, nausea, head ache and muscle pain. The infective dose is considered to be very small with studies suggesting that only around 400-500 bacteria may cause illness. C. jejuni frequently contaminates raw chicken with surveys showing that between 20 and 100% of retail chickens are contaminated. This is not overly surprising since many healthy chickens carry these bacteria in their intestinal tracts. Raw milk is also a source of infections. The bacteria are often carried by healthy cattle and by flies on farms. Non-chlorinated water may also be a source of infections. However, properly cooking chicken, pasteurizing milk, and chlorinating drinking water will kill the bacteria.
13. Plasmodium falciparum

Plasmodium falciparum is a protozoan parasite that invades the red blood cells and is one of the species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans. It is transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito. When the mosquito bites an infected person, it sucks up blood containing the parasite, which may then be passed on to the mosquito's next victim. Malaria caused by this species is the most dangerous form of malaria with the highest rates of complications and mortality. According to the World Health Organisations (WHO) malaria report 2011, there were about 216 million cases of malaria and an estimated 655 000 deaths in 2010. Most deaths occur among children living in Africa where a child dies every minute from malaria. Malaria is an acute illness. In a non-immune individual, symptoms appear seven days or more after the infective mosquito bite. The first symptoms – fever, headache, chills and vomiting – may be mild and difficult to recognize as malaria. If not treated within 24 hours, P. falciparum malaria can progress to severe illness often leading to death. Complications can affect the brain, kidneys, blood and lungs and the more severe symptoms include jaundice, difficulty breathing, fluid on the lungs – pulmonary oedema, feeling light-headed or shaky (symptoms of low blood sugar), bleeding, fits and loss of consciousness.
Interestingly sickle cell disease (sickle shaped red blood cells) that is common in countries where malaria is also endemic, seems to be an evolutionary defense mechanism against malaria, the sickle shaped blood cells aren't habitable to P. falciparum......unfortunately the odd shaped blood cells also don't transfer as much oxygen as normal blood cells, this can also cause many physical complications....this is known as a fitness trade off.......resistance to malaria but a somewhat weakened physical state.

[dwitt]

boo! no numbers today sitting at 5/10.... interesting facts though

[backafteradozenyrs]

#5 sounds nasty but it's my 7th #!

[Fizzbw]

Nuts, no numbers for me again!!!


Niki xxx

[rcperryls]

I agree with Diana, #5 sounds nasty when described but it moves me up to 3/10. I picked it because I thought it didn't sound so bad by the name and reminded me of "I Dream of Jeanie"

Carole

[pattiebelle]

Great game!!!

I got both today, so I'm halfway with 5/10!!!

Love all the info ...

[Ketta]

I got both today, up to 5/10.

[Squirrel]

Got both today giving me 6/10. I will read about them later, jsut q quick visit today as we are heading out for the day.

[geekishly]

good luck to those getting close. I'm up o 3/10 after getting both today.

[nachosmiley]

One or two peeps are getting close to a win now.....exciting!! The random number generator picked out the numbers 3 and 30 today!

3.Porphyromonas gingivalis

Porphyromonas gingivalis are a common bacterium in the human body, found especially in the oral cavity. They are associated with periodontal lesions, infections, and adult periodontal disease. Approximately 70-90% of people pubescent and older have gingivitis, an oral inflammatory process and a possible precursor to adult periodontal disease. Gingivitis allows Porphyromonas gingivalis to further infect the areas near the root of the teeth causing tooth decay, infection and bad breath.

30. Treponema pallidum

Treponema pallidum is a spiral shaped bacterium which causes syphilis, a chronic human disease. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease but transmission can also occur between mother and child in utero; this is called congenital syphilis. Syphilis was first discovered in Europe near the end of the fifteenth century. The virulent strain of T. pallidum was first isolated in 1912 from a neurosyphilitic patient by Hideyo Noguchi, a Japanese bacteriologist. Although for the past decades treatment has been available, syphilis remains a health problem throughout the world. The WHO estimates that 12 million new cases of syphilis occur each year. This is a major problem in developing countries where prenatal testing and antibiotics are not available. In such cases syphilis can be passed from mother to unborn child. In a recent study, congenital syphilis was reported as the cause of 50% of all stillbirths in Tanzania. Another major complication of syphilis is its ability to increase the likelihood of transmission of HIV.
T. pallidum is an important organism because of its ability to cause disease in humans and in efforts to better understand it, its genome was sequenced in July of 1998. T. pallidum cannot be cultured in the lab and therefore cannot be investigated using conventional lab techniques. By sequencing its genome, scientists are able to better understand T. pallidum, however many things remain a mystery, most notably what exactly is its virulence factor (molecules expressed and secreted by pathogens that allow them to bypass certain aspects of the immune system).