DORM ROOM DANGERS
The human illness you get from sharing drinks or not washing your hands.
Common Cold
The type of human mask worn to protect your lungs from polluted air environment.
N95 (or Face Mask)
The human action needed before eating in the canteen environment to prevent germs.
Washing Hands
The environmental issue that makes drinking tap water unsafe for humans.
Contamination
The vaccine needed by a human after a scratch or bite from a stray animal.
Anti-Rabies (or Rabies Vaccine)
The animal pest that spreads quickly when food is left out in the environment of a dorm room.
Rats (or Cockroaches)
The most common type of human pain caused by holding a heavy bag and dealing with traffic stress in the commute environment.
Back Pain (or Headache)
The correct temperature (hot or cold) needed to safely store animal food like meat and poultry.
Cold (or Refrigerated)
The human action of sorting trash into recyclables and non-recyclables to help the environment.
Segregation (or Recycling)
The animal pest that can spread sickness by landing on human food in the environment
Flies
The moldy smell in a damp dorm room environment that can cause human allergies.
Mildew
The harmful gas in car exhaust that you breathe in from the polluted environment
Carbon Monoxide
The human illness caused by eating bacteria from undercooked chicken animal meat.
Food Poisoning (or Salmonella)
The human health problem that occurs when you don't drink enough water in a hot, dry environment.
Dehydration
The reason we use hand sanitizer—to kill the animal germs (bacteria/viruses) that cause human sickness.
Disinfection
The human health condition caused by not sleeping enough due to loud noise in the dorm environment.
Sleep Deprivation
The human organ most damaged by breathing in polluted air from the traffic environment.
Lungs
The animal source of protein most likely to carry germs if it isn't fully cooked.
Chicken (or Poultry)
The type of environmental waste (like plastic) that takes hundreds of years to break down.
Non-Biodegradable
The human illness spread by a mosquito animal that breeds in standing water environments on campus.
Dengue Fever
The unit of measurement for environmental sound pressure, which, when sustained above 85, can cause permanent hearing damage in humans.
Decibel (dB)
The highly reactive pollutant gas that forms in the lower environment from reactions between sunlight and vehicle emissions, causing human respiratory distress.
Ozone (O3)
The major global human health threat accelerated by the widespread use of antibiotics in animal agriculture (livestock).
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
The common bacterium used as an environmental indicator of fecal contamination in water sources, posing a serious human health risk.
E. coli
The ecological term for any infectious disease that can naturally be transmitted between animal hosts and humans.
Zoonosis