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What did the fluid in the cup represent?
Bodily fluids
What is an antibiotic?
Medicine that stops bacteria from growing/reproducing.
Is the Black Death caused by a bacteria or virus?
Bacteria
What is a vaccine?
A preventative treatment that trains your body to fight specific bacteria and/or viruses
What did the sodium hydroxide represent?
Disease/Illness/Sickness
What is the difference between bacteria and viruses?
Bacteria are living things, Viruses need a host
What is the name of the bacteria that causes the Black Death?
Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis)
Bacteria
Why did we have to move around the room to exchange?
To represent population mixing
How is disease spread between people?
Bodily fluids
Physical touch
Etc
What did researchers find when studying the bones of people who from the Black Death
Evidence of malnutrition and prior sickness
What is the name of the bacteria that causes cholera?
Vibrio cholerae (V. cholerae)
What is the name of the indicator we used?
Phenolphthalein
What factors affect the rate of disease transmission?
Crowding
Population Size
Population Mixing
Economic Status
When did the Black Death start in Medieval Europe?
Late 1340's
When did the largest outbreak of cholera occur?
From ~1960 to ~2020
What is something we were not able to represent in our experiment?
Immunity
What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?
Epidemic - unexpected increase, small area
Pandemic - exponential growth, widespread
What is the reproduction number (R0) of the Black Death?
3.5
What was the name of the largest cholera outbreak?
El Tor