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| Spanish Flu Pandemic total deaths |
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Same strain as 1918.
- Ford wanted everyone vaccinated
- not a big deal |
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- Most severe, common, mutatable
- most likely to cause epidemics
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| Cough, fever, sore throat, body aches |
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- Slower to mutate
- mild |
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H & N
- multiple forms which determines how immune system recognizes flu |
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| Bird flu can transfer between_______ |
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| Bird to bird, bird to human, but not human to human |
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| -Very, especially in age groups w/ no previous exposure |
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| How fast do viruses evolve? |
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| -Extremely quickly. 2008, 11% resistent to tamiflu, in 2009, 91% resistent |
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| Fungi are ______ cells and have_________ |
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| Molds are _______cellular |
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| They have hypae with long filaments |
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| Yeast are ____cellular and are this shape _______ |
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| Yeast sexual reproduction |
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- Sexual and Asexual.
- Spores are a clone from a single hyphae. |
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| Yeast infections are caused by _________ _________ |
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Candida albicons (Blame canada!)
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| Examples of Yeast infections |
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- Vaginal/penis
- Mouth (thrush)
- diaper rash |
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- Athletes foot, jock itch, ring worm
- Feed off keratin in skin |
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| Valley fever infects _______ |
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| Valley fever is mostly located in ______ |
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| Is valley fever contagious? |
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| No, it is infectious, but not contagious |
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| spores in soil carried by wind |
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| Headaches, fatigue, lack of health, flu-like, memory changes |
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| Sick building is caused by _____ |
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| Protozoans are ______ cells that lack ______ |
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Asexually via binary fission
- can exchange DNA through conjugation |
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| - They are parasites and feed off animal fluids |
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| Which genetic disease gives protection from malaria? |
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| Why is malaria tough to make a vaccine for? |
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| It has a complex life cycle |
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| Who discovered the parasite that causes malaria? |
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| First recorded case of giardiasis |
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| EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA! tummy pain |
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Extremely rare (175 cases ever)
- Almost always fatal
- altered taste and smell
- Pools and lakes |
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- Cylindrical body
- simplest animal w/ digestive system
- infection occurs through ingestion of eggs/larva |
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- No digestive system
- hermaphrodites |
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| Worms cause disease by ________ |
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- Sapping hosts nutrients
- Inducing inflamation
- Blocking or perforating organs |
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| Schistosomiasis, infects 200 mil, kills 750,000 annually |
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-Rash within days, flu symptoms in months
- Kills by damaging liver, kidneys, lungs and bladder |
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| Mosquitos and biting flies |
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| River blindness and elephantitis |
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| penetrating bottom of foot and moves to intestine |
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| 1 billion people worldwide |
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| Repeated infection as a kid |
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- Extremely long roundworms that emerge form surface of skin
- clean drinking water has greatly reduced infection |
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| Proteinaceous Infectious Particles |
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| Do prions have genetic material? |
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-Diseased proteins sickening healthy proteins
- Form amyloid fibers that kill nerve cells
- Leave holes in brain |
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- Infected Fore people
- spread by ritualistic canabalism
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| Do prions have a treatment? |
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| Disease in humans caused by mad cow |
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| - Memory loss, involuntary movements, loss of muscle control |
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| movement of pathogens form one environment to another |
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- exchange of fluids (saliva, semen, blood, needles)
STDS, mono, ect |
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transfer of pathogen from reservoir to a fomite and then to a new host.
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living or non living source of a pathogen
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| inanimate object (door knob, desk ect) |
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| Carried < 3 feet. Coughs, sneezes, talking. Can't survive if dried out. |
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| Pathogen is spread by food, water or air. |
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Pathogen transmitted by an unaffected host
- Ticks, mosquitoes. West Nile virus, lyme disease (Ticks)
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