TOPIC ARTICLE:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210812135910.htm It is important to think about your obligation as a citizen in today's society. You need to understand the science behind issues that impact you and other people on this earth every day. Answer the following questions: How can being a more scientifically informed member of society benefit you and your community? Include the title of the TED Talk that you chose to watch (from the options provided in the module Reading and Resources area) as well as one point made by the speaker to support your response. Why do you think there is value in understanding and studying the natural sciences when considering not only the impact of science on the global community, but to each of us individually?

Hello, I am looking for someone who could help out a very stressed nursing student with one of her essays. :) The essay I need to submit has following requirements: Subject: Forests- Forests are home to many invaluable ecosystem goods and services as well as a source of wood products for economies around the world. Scientists are evaluating the effectiveness of forest management policies by accounting for the economic, social, and environmental goals of region-specific programs alongside program costs. Are we doing enough to protect our valuable forests?Include each of the Sub-Topics: Deforestation, Forest Carbon, Timber and Forest Product Markets, Tree BiotechnologyEssay Length: 2 pagesSources - 2 websites requiredReferences - written on separate page after the essay using APA Format. Needs to be retrieved from public websites (do not use websites that require usernames/passwords). Wikipedia cannot be listed as one of the sources.

Human Pathogens By Body SystemMicroorganisms are very diverse. Likewise, the diseases that they cause are just as diverse.In this discussion, we will explore some of the microbes that cause human disease and the body systems they affect.When a patient seeks health care because they are ill, they describe their symptoms to the health care worker, and the health care worker gathers objective signs of disease. Together, these lead us to a disease syndrome of one of the major body systems:Integumentary System and EyesNervous SystemCardiovascular and Lymphatic SystemsRespiratory SystemGastrointestinal SystemGenitourinary SystemThis week, we will discuss some common human pathogens and the diseases they cause.Feel free to download the Grading Rubric.Do not edit your posts after the due dates because they will be marked late and points will be deducted from your discussion board grade.Include the word count in each of your posts (exclude the header, title, references list, etc.).For your main discussion post (first post)You must choose from among the human pathogens below. It is required of all students to reserve their discussion topic using the following procedure:Click Week 4 Discussion, above, to enter the Discussion. Click Create Thread and type the number and scientific name of the organism you will discuss in the subject line to reserve your topic on a first come/first serve basis according to the classroom date/time stamp. Click Submit.Repeat main posts on the same organism are not permitted.To post your main discussion you will Reply to your topic intent post.For the cellular organisms listed below, you need to start the first letter of the genus name with a capital letter and write all letters in the species name in lowercase letters and italicize both the genus and species names. For the acellular organisms listed below, start the first letter of the common name/species name of the virus with a capital letter. Do not italicize the common name/species name of the virus. It is not required to include the family or genus names of the virus in your posts but if you do you must start each name with a capital letter and italicize each name.Please choose one of the following human pathogens for your main discussion:Campylobacter jejuniCandida albicansChlamydia trachomatisClostridium botulinumClostridium tetaniCorynebacterium diphtheriaeCruetzfeld-Jacob prion (CJD)Diphyllobothrium latumEpstein-Barr virusGiardia lambliaHerpes simplex virus 2Human herpesvirus 3Human papillomavirusLeishmania donovani Mycoplasma pneumoniaNecator americanusNeisseria gonorrhoeaeNeisseria meningitidisPlasmodium falciparumPropionibacterium acnesRickettsia rickettsiiRotavirusRubella virusSchistosoma mansoniStreptococcus pyogenesTreponema pallidumTrichomonas vaginalisVariola virusD. You must discuss your chosen human pathogen to tell us what type of microbe it is, what disease it causes, body system affected, where and when it was discovered, course of disease, signs and symptoms, transmission, virulence factors, laboratory diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.E. Your discussion should be well-written, in your own words, paraphrasing from only credible academic sources. You may not directly quote from your sources, minimum elaboration on the topic of a minimum of 300 words and maximum of 400 words. F. You must also cite your credible academic reference sources with parenthetical in-text citations, and provide full end ref information in APA 7th Edition format.G. Due by 11:59PM ET Friday 6/3, on any day of the week other than the days you post your two comments, to meet the minimum three day posting requirement.For your second post: You will respond to another classmate with a substantive comment to move the science discussion forward in minimum 100, maximum 150 words in an area you are interested in after reading the main discussion.Again, you should provide student original writing, paraphrasing from credible sources, cite your source for this post with parenthetical in-text citations, and provide full end ref information in APA 7th Edition format. Due by 11:59PM ET Saturday 6/4, on any day of the week other than the day you posted your main discussion and second comment, to meet the minimum three day posting requirement.For your third post:You will respond to another classmate with a substantive comment to move the science discussion forward in minimum 100, maximum 150 words in an area you are interested in after reading the main discussion.Again, you should provide student original writing, paraphrasing from credible sources, cite your source for this post with parenthetical in-text citations, and provide full end ref information in APA 7th Edition format.Due by 11:59PM ET Sunday 6/5, on any day of the week other than the day you posted your main discussion and first comment, to meet the minimum three day posting requirement.HELPFUL TIPSPlease refer to the Getting Started area of the classroom for information on Credible References and APA 7th Edition format under course resources.You may never use Wikipedia or any other Open Source to support your college level work. All assignments using these will earn zero score.You must paraphrase from all sources as direct quotation is not acceptable in science writing.It is highly suggested that you use the Safe Assign tool located in the Keiser Online Writing Laboratory (OWL) to check your writing for effective paraphrasing before submitting to the public discussion.Please check the Getting Started area of the classroom for a copy of the Discussion Grading Rubric and your instructor's Course Expectations.I HAVE CHOSEN #16 AS MY human pathogen1st student responseHuman Pathogens by Body SystemMycoplasma pneumoniaeJulian PovilaitisMicrobiology 1 – Professor SchreiberMycoplasma pneumoniae is a small bacterium in the Mollicutes class. They are distinguished by their lack of cell wall structure, which causes insensitivity to beta-lactam anti-microbial agents. This prevents them from staining during gram staining procedures. M. pneumoniae leads to infections of both the lower and upper respiratory tracts. It occurred worldwide in an endemic fashion with epidemic spurts occurring at four to seven year intervals. The most common illness with this bacterium is tracheobronchitis or a chest cold, especially in children. Also known as “walking pneumonia” and can damage the lining of the respiratory tract (lungs, windpipe, and throat). M. pneumoniae was discovered in 1944 when scientists found the agent that causes “atypical” pneumonia. They first believed it was a virus or fungus and named it “mycoplasma,” which is a Greek name (Takeshi, 2016). Most cases of M. pneumoniae last in a mild form for several weeks and takes anywhere from one to four weeks to appear. According to the CDC, common signs and symptoms include sore throat, fatigue, fever, shortness of breath, and slow worsening cough. When someone who is infected by M. pneumoniae coughs or sneezes, they will create small droplets that contain bacteria. Some will become infected when breathing in the droplets. M. pneumoniae produces a unique virulence factor called Community Acquired Respiratory Distress Syndrome (CARDS) toxin. This toxin aids in colonization and a pathogenic pathway leading to inflammation and dysfunction of the airway. Laboratories can provide testing using culture, serology, or nucleic acid amplification. It can pass through filters scientists use to remove bacteria and will not be detected with a light microscope. There are kits the FDA uses to detect multiple respiratory pathogens and then get sent off to the CDC. There are different treatment options macrolides (children and adults), fluoroquinolones (adults), and tetracyclines (older children and adults). Resistance to macrolides has been an issue since the 2000s and is troubling Asia where they show numbers as high as 90%. The US has been reported as a macrolide-resistant country. To prevent M. pneumoniae we need to work on practicing good hygiene because like most respiratory infections it gets spread by coughing and sneezing. We should cover our mouths and nose with tissue when coughing and sneezing. If a tissue is not around cough or sneeze into the upper sleeve or elbow and wash your hands often (CDC, 2020).WC: 390 ReferencesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020, June 5). Mycoplasma pneumoniae. CDC. Retrieved May 31, 2022, from https://www.cdc.gov/pneumonia/atypical/mycoplasma/...Takeshi, T. (2016, March 22). The History of Mycoplasma Pneumoniae. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved May 31, 2022, from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27047477/2nd student responseKayla Jordan RE: 25. Streptococcus pyogenesCOLLAPSEStreptococcus pyogenes A human-specific bacterial pathogen that affects the central nervous system and upperrespiratory tract. It is also an aerobic gram-positive extracellular bacterium that occurs in pairs or chains. (Shulman ST, Bisno AL, Clegg HW, Gerber MA, Kaplan EL, Lee G, et al.)They are divided into three groups by the type of blood agar. Beta-hemolytic streptococci arecharacterized as group A streptococci (Streptococcus pyogenes) and group Bstreptococci (Streptococcus agalactiae).Streptococcus pyogenes also known as group A strepcauses acute pharyngitis known as strep throat. Strep throat is a bacterial infection that can make your throat feel sore and scratchy. It is made up of non-motile, non-sporing coccithat are less than 2um in length and form chains and large colonies greater than 0.5mm in size. Pyogenes is responsible for a wide line up of infections, including Strep (sore throat), pharyngitis, scarlet fever, impetigo erysipelas, and a few others. There are 517,000 globaldeaths each year due to severe S. pyogenes disease. The incubation period is 2-5 days. It is commonly spread through direct person to person contact, and through saliva or nasal secretions from an infected person. It can also be spread through skin with impetigo lesions (red itchy sores), infected aerosols, and through contaminated foodsources. Food borne outbreaks of pharyngitis are rare but due to improper food handling it can happen. Crowded areas such as schools, daycare centers, or military training facilities are also means of transmission for Streptococcus pyogenes.The symptoms of this bacterial infection vary and can affect a variety of organ systems.For example Streptococcal sore throat symptoms are characterized by fever, enlarged tonsils,sensitive cervical lymph nodes and malaise. Scarlet fever entails a fever and a pink-red rash.Impetigo result in infection of the superficial layers of the skin. The introduction of theblood agar plates was by Hugo Schottmuller in 1903and was an important step forward for thedifferentiation of streptococci. The bacterium can survive on a dry surface for three days to six and a half months. To test for group A Strep, health care staff would use either a rapid antigen test or a throat culture. Penicillin or amoxicillin is the antibiotic of choice to treat it. Good hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette can reduce the spread of the infection as well.word count :383Refernces:Amy E. Bryant, Dennis L. Stevens, in Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2015Pharyngitis (Strep Throat): Information For Clinicians | CDCEtiology, clinical features, transmission, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, carriage, prevention, and more about strep throat.Kanwal S, Vaitla P. Streptococcus Pyogenes. [Updated 2022 Feb 24]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554528/