Assignment: Create a 8.5” X 11” flyer with the information listed below regarding your infectious disease or immunological disorder. Your finished product will be something a reader may quickly gather information from.
Information required:
* Your name should be on the flyer
* if your topic is an infectious disease * name and describe the agent that causes the disease; what kind of microorganism is it? * how is it transmitted? * signs and symptoms of the disease * how is the disease treated? * how can the disease be prevented? * any unique or interesting information about the disease and/or agent
* if your topic is an immunological disorder * define the disorder * what triggers the disorder? * what happens in the body during a flare up/occurrence/reaction? * is this treatable and how? * can the reactions be prevented and how? * provide an understanding of the life of a person with the disorder
Overview After the activity is explained, there are four stages A video about sickness is played as a hook to help students understand the topic. Students will jot rough notes about a time they were sick with fever, runny nose, or some other sickness. Students are then paired up and take turns sharing their experiences taking notes. Students are re-paired up and talk about home remedies for their illnesses. Finally, the class is brought together and shares what they talked about. Steps Before students…
INFO ROSS RIVER FEVER Ross River Fever is a mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by infection with the Ross River virus. The virus is endemic to Australia, Pap ua New Guinea , Fiji, Samoa, the Cook Islands, New Caledonia and several other islands in the South Pacific. Ross River fever is more prevalent during the "wet season", particularly January - March, when mosquito populations numbers are high. In southern parts of Australia, this time period may shift to earlier in the year during spring/summer…
RHEUMATIC FEVER Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease that may develop as a complication of a streptococcus infection, such as strep throat by Streptococcus pyogenes or group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus. If it does develop, it will usually do so two to three weeks after the Group A streptococcal infection. Rheumatic fever mainly affects children aged between 5 and 15 years; however, it can affect adults and younger children. Boys and girls have the same risk of developing the disease;…
Health Organization currently estimates that there may be 50–100 million dengue infections worldwide every year. The first confirmed outbreak of dengue fever in Pakistan was in 1994, but a sudden rise in cases and the annual epidemic trend first occurred in Karachi in November 2005. Since 2010, Pakistan has been experiencing an epidemic of dengue fever that has caused 16580 confirmed cases and 257 deaths in Lahore and nearly 5000 cases and 60 deaths reported from the rest of the country. The three provinces…
Dengue fever has been around for 70 years in the U.S. It started to increase in the 1960s; 100 million people were infected yearly. Dengue fever occurs mostly in tropical areas of the world like Southeast Asia, Southern China, Taiwan, the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, Mexico, Africa, Central and South America. Dengue fever became a big problem after World War 2. Since then the world has been working on eliminating the mosquitoes and to make a vaccine. Dengue fever is caused by a bite of a mosquito;…
Summer fever Over the past few years, people have been getting hay fever and therefore we need to make sure people reduce their chances of making their condition worse. Hay fever is a common allergic condition, but how is it caused? It is all caused by pollination. Pollination is when the pollen from the anther transfers to the stigma. There are two ways of pollen transferring into another plant. It can be done by insect-pollination or wind-pollination. Insect- pollination is when insects carry pollen…
Prevention and redemption: The mortality rate of yellow fever: 15% to more than 50%.There is no cure CURRENTLY available that’s why it’s indispensable that you get prevention through vaccination. It is especially recommended for those who travel to foreign countries and high risk areas. It can be administered as early as nine months old and does require booster shots every ten years. Other effective forms of prevention are avoiding mosquitos, using mosquito repellant, getting rid of standing water…
Fever Dream 1. If I were the director of one of these plays that I watched this year I would direct “Fever Dream”. 2. My concept of the story would be to have less of a focus on the son the sons that been locked up in the basement and focus more on the business part of it. Bill Basil would be the C.E.O of a company that is going through a downfall. It used to be really popular and business was great but now it’s slowing down and he is so old school that he keep the same business plans and ideas…
Yellow fever evolved over 3,000 years ago, and has since been a constant threat to populations in Africa and South America. A vaccine was created in 1930, providing lifelong immunity. However, since the 1980’s vaccination programs have declines, while urbanisation has increased rapidly. With no treatment available, this virus is ever more likely to become an epidemic. History of Virus: In 1648, the first reliable records of a yellow fever outbreak in Yucatan and Guadeloupe, in South America were…
Salmonella enteric subsp. Enteric serovar Typhi.[2] The infection has received numerous names, such as stomach fever, abdominal typhus, infant remittent fever, enteric fever, slow fever, nervous fever and phytogenic fever. The term typhoid means "similar to typhus" and initiates from the neuropsychiatric warning sign common to typhoid and typhus.[3] In spite of this similarity of their names, typhoid fever and typhus are different diseases and are initiated by diverse species of bacteria.[4] The incidence…
