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Emerging Infections
Diseases
Other Emerging Diseases
How Diseases Affect the World
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What is an emerging infection?
Communicable diseases whose occurrence in humans has increased within the past two decades or threatens to increase in the near future.
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How do emerging infections transport across the border?
Infected people and animals carry pathogens from one area to another.
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What are some of the other emerging diseases in this book?
HIV/AIDS, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, SARS, and mad cow disease. Mad cow doesn't happen anymore though.
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What is a pandemic?
A global outbreak of an infectious disease.
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What new disease is becoming a pandemic?
Ebola.
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Alzheimer's, diabetes, and coronary artery disease are thought to be caused by what?
Infectious pathogens
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What is avian influenza?
It is a virus that is found naturally in birds. There is no vaccine or cure.
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What is an epidemic?
A disease outbreak that affects many people in the same place and at the same time.
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What contributes to the spread of diseases?
The mobility of people in our globalized world.
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What is the big idea?
Today, infectious diseases have the potential to spread quickly throughout the world.
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What are factors that cause emerging infections?
Transport across borders, population movement, resistance to antibiotics, changes in food technology, and agents of terrorism.
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What is H1N1?
A respiratory virus normally found in pigs. It's a combination of human, avian, and pig flu viruses.
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When and where was SARS first reported?
Asia in 2003.
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What makes it easy for infectious diseases to spread?
The world's trade and travel.
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How many reported cases of Salmonella contamination were reported in the U.S. in 2007?
1,397,187
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What are two things that have saved millions of lives?
Vaccines and modern technology.
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What causes Salmonella and E. coli?
Changes in food technology.
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What percentage of people develop West Nile after being bitten?
20 percent.
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What could threaten entire countries and/or continents?
According to the book, avian flu and E. coli.
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How many people die from Salmonella contamination every year according to the book?
400 people.
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What is the main idea?
Some diseases are becoming more widespread and dangerous.
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What causes recreational water illnesses?
E. coli and/or giardia.
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What kin of communities are more likely to get Lyme disease?
Suburban communities.
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How do pathogens become drug-resistant?
Pathogens invade the body and cause illness, antibodies attack the pathogens, the surviving pathogens reproduce, creating new pathogens.
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How is a pandemic different from and epidemic?
A pandemic is a global outbreak and an epidemic is an outbreak that affects many people in the same place at the same time.