8.15 Pathogens and Infectious Diseases

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12 questions
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Define Public Health

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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.

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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.

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What is epidemiology?

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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.

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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?

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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?

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Use the PPT to answer the chart.