8.15 Pathogens and Infectious Diseases

Define Public Health

Describe how would you get information about events, behaviors, or environmental conditions that affect public health?

Identify what a public health investigation start with.

Explain why do think mosquito breeding could be relevant to the investigation

Identify any diseases you know that are spread by mosquitoes.

What is epidemiology?

Relate what you saw in Mystery Illness in NYC to the process epidemiologists use.

Identify some ways in which infectious diseases are transmitted from one organism to another.

Describe how understanding the source of transmission of a disease helps stop its spread.

What evidence led investigators to conclude a mosquito was responsible for transmitting the disease?

Discuss how the CDC made its initial diagnosis, why everyone wasn’t convinced at first, and what convinced the CDC to reconsider its diagnosis?

Use the PPT to answer the chart.