A75-year-old woman with no history of lung problems or smoking is admitted to the shadow general medical floor for new onset fever and cough. you find rales and increased tactile fremitus on physical exam. what is likely to be her main medical problem?

his week a heat wave will be hitting, and most of the country will be experiencing temperatures above average for july. due to humidity, the temperature outside can feel even warmer than it actually is. this adjusted temperature, often referred to as the “feels like” temperature is called the heat index. the chart shows the heat index, which is calculated based on temperature and relative humidity. use this chart to answer the following questions.  

this disease is :

* endemic (present in a defined area that is a village)

* a bacterial infection (treated with antibiotic)

* communicable by contact (by the hands)

manu-porterage is the most common mode of transmission, it transmits germs from one individual to another via the hands. this concerns infections of exogenous origin.

endemic disease, or endemic disease, refers to a disease that is constantly present in a given population, often tied to a specific geographic origin, as opposed to a pandemic that is not a sporadic disease.

antibiotics are molecules that have the property of killing (bactericidal) or limiting the spread (bacteriostatic) of bacteria.