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alarms eople, high mortality, devasting, infectouis disease, mysterouis, quick loss of life
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plague
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the plague
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bublonic plague
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bublonic plague
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the plague, 1447 whiped out 1/2 of europe
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Robert Koch
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1860s-80s, golden age of microbiology
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when was the golden age of microbiology
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1860s-1880s
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3 types of plagues
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bacterial, viral, other
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plague, "black death" b or v
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bacterial
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leporsy, b or v
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bacterial
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cholera, b or v
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bacterial
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what was the disease of the 1800s
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tuberculosis
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what was the white plague and why
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tuberculosis, northern europe was mainly affected
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what was known as consumption
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tuberculosis
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what was known as the great pox
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spyhilils
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syphillis, b or v
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bacterial
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small pox, b or v
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viral
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influenza, b or v
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viral
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AIDS, b or v
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viral
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what causes guandice skin and eyes
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yellow fever
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what was the first human virus to be discovered
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yellow fever
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what was yellow fever transmitted through
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bugs
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yellow fever, b or v
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viral
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dengue fever, b or v
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viral
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what two diseases still are threats
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yellow fever and dengue fever
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hepatitus, b or v
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viral
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what disease is a liver disease and chronic
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hepatitius
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hepatitus
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liver disease, chronic, causes yellowing,
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what types of hepatitus do most people have
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b and c
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malaria
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not viral or bacterial, has to got through two cycles
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sleeping sickness
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not viral or bacterial
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food poisoning, b or v
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bacterial
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associated with processed meats
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food poisoning- e coli and saminla
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two types of food poisoning
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e coli and saminla
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lyme disease, b or v
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bacterial
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transmitted through ticks
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lyme disease
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what affects the body like syphillis
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lyme disease
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lyme disease, b or v
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bacterial
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legionneires Disease, b or v
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bacterial
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legioneirres disease
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named after conventions in 1977, found in water and soil, inhail organism
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how did parrot fever/psittacosis start
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birds shipped into europe for xmas, birds carry disease
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when did the parrot fever/psittacosis occur
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1930s
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ebola/marburg Hemorrhagic fevers, b or v
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viral
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Hantavirus Pulmonary syndrome, b or v
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viral
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West Nile Virus/ Encephalitis, b or v
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viral
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SARS, b or v
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viral
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Avian Flu, b or v
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viral
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kuru
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started through cannibalism, not b or v
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vCJD
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mad cow disease
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who is responsible for the germ theory of disease
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Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch
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when was the germ theory of disease made
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1870-1880
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John Snow
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investigated cholera in london and figured out it was directly related to the broad street pump
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what did most people die from in the year 2000
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67 percent chronic diseases
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when did aids peak
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1994
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how much does aids treatment cost
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intially 14000 but now 6000
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Who came up with the postulates
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Robert Koch
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what are Koch's postulates
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1. agent is found only in diseased host
2. isolate and grow agent in pure culture 3. inoculate and induce disease in new host 4. reisolate agent and show that it is the same |
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is Koch's postulates for viral or bacterial diseases
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both
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who did a public presentatoin with anthrax and rabeas vaccine
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Pasteur
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how did pasteur make vaccine
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tooks straints and let them grow and mutate and put small doses in animals so that they would develop antibodies
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normal flora
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skin bacteria
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how much is our body infected
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our body is in a constant state of infection
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oppurtunistic agents
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doesn't necesarily cause disease but it does in those that are already sick it makes them worse
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virulent pathogens
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if its in you, you have disease
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how many people that have polio virus get infected
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1 in 100
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how many people that have west nile get infected
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1 in 100
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how many people that have Ebola virus get infected
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100 percent
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how many pople that have rabies virus get infected
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100 percent
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morbility
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sickness
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mortality
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death
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what characterizes a disease
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morbidity/mortality
symptoms-localized or systemic loss of normal activities covers common cold to rabies |
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is the common cold considered a disease
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yes
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reservoirs
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where the disease stays when it is not active
ex) bat, mostquito |
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acute phase
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symptoms apparent
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how long is incubition phase
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depends on disease, anywhere from 2-15 days
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convalescense
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infected person can still infect people
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chronic infection
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later sequil to disease, can relapse way worse
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what is the progression of disease
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reservoirs, transmission, exposure, incubation and incubation peroid, acute phase, convalescence, chronic infection
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