Ohio University Main Campus Chapter 5 Of the Nagami Book Discussion Post

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write one response paper in which you respond to this reading. This paper should be double-spaced, and 2-3 pages. For the paper, there will be one or two specific questions to answer in your responses and then a section for free-form response.
Following is the response question for the Nagami book reading.


Chapter 5 - Maneater
What is flesh eating strep? How prevalent is it in comparison to the fear people express about this infectious illness? Does this chapter change how you view even a paper cut? How did you react to the extensive descriptions of patient treatments?

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Running Head: A REFLECTION ON CHAPTER 5 OF THE NAGAMI BOOK
Chapter 5 of the Nagami book
A Reflection on Chapter 5 Of the Nagami Book
In her book, “Nagami, P. (2003). Maneater and other true stories of a life in infectious
diseases” similar to her other writings, Nagami (200) takes the reader through a series of various
life-threatening infectious diseases that the world population faces in modern times, in what can
be termed as a personal account by a seasoned medical doctor. One of these stories in her other
works involve a heathy woman who becomes infected by pork tapeworm (Nagami 2002). The
worms burrow to her brain and disable her motor abilities. In yet another story, Nagami (2003)
explains how a young man contracts Chicken Pox that disorients his physical appearance to gain
the resemblance of burns all over his body. In Maneater, Nagami (2003) also explains the story
of a man who is bitten by an insect and is further targeted by a flesh-eating strep. This reflection
focusses on Chapter 5 in Nagami’s book, aiming to answer questions on the young man’s
condition by explaining what a flesh-eating strep is, its prevalence and people’s perception about
it and my personal reactions to the explanations she gives, especially on the treatment process.
In the chapter “Maneater”, Nagami profiles the infection of fresh-eating strep by starting
to explain how most of us think that a salad for lunch, a bite by an insect or a day by the sea
swimming has no devastating impacts on our health but these among other activities are the
things that bring humanity close to harmful and even fatal micro-organisms. She explains how an
ordinary or normal insect bite on a patient resulted into a “flesh-eating strep”. In explaining the
term, she gives the signs of the patient that included shedding of the skin in way similar to what
snakes go through. Further, the condition resulted in the patient undergoing a dead tissue
removal from his upper thigh and t...


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