8.15 Pathogens and Infectious Diseases
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12 questions
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Define Public Health
Define Public Health
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Describe how would you get information about events, behaviors, or environmental conditions that affect public health?
Describe how would you get information about events, behaviors, or environmental conditions that affect public health?
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Identify what a public health investigation start with.
Identify what a public health investigation start with.
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Explain why do think mosquito breeding could be relevant to the investigation
Explain why do think mosquito breeding could be relevant to the investigation
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Identify any diseases you know that are spread by mosquitoes.
Identify any diseases you know that are spread by mosquitoes.
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What is epidemiology?
What is epidemiology?
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Relate what you saw in Mystery Illness in NYC to the process epidemiologists use.
Relate what you saw in Mystery Illness in NYC to the process epidemiologists use.
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Identify some ways in which infectious diseases are transmitted from one organism to another.
Identify some ways in which infectious diseases are transmitted from one organism to another.
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Describe how understanding the source of transmission of a disease helps stop its spread.
Describe how understanding the source of transmission of a disease helps stop its spread.
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What evidence led investigators to conclude a mosquito was responsible for transmitting the disease?
What evidence led investigators to conclude a mosquito was responsible for transmitting the disease?
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Discuss how the CDC made its initial diagnosis, why everyone wasn’t convinced at first, and what convinced the CDC to reconsider its diagnosis?
Discuss how the CDC made its initial diagnosis, why everyone wasn’t convinced at first, and what convinced the CDC to reconsider its diagnosis?
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Use the PPT to answer the chart.
Use the PPT to answer the chart.