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9/19 Warm-up. Open Google Chrome internet browser Go to Socrative.com Click on Student log in Enter Hayes-Science Enter your first and last name Answer the question posted. Infectious Diseases. 8 th grade science Sept. 19, 2013. What are Infectious Diseases?.
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9/19 Warm-up • Open Google Chrome internet browser • Go to Socrative.com • Click on Student log in • Enter Hayes-Science • Enter your first and last name • Answer the question posted
Infectious Diseases 8th grade science Sept. 19, 2013
What are Infectious Diseases? • Infectious diseases are diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi; the diseases can be spread, directly or indirectly, from one person to another.
Infectious Disease Transmission • Physical contact • Contaminated food • Body fluids • Objects • Airborne inhalation • Vector organisms
Routes of transmission • Direct • Skin-skin • Herpes type 1 • Mucous-mucous • STI • Across placenta • toxoplasmosis • Through breast milk • HIV • Sneeze-cough • Influenza • Indirect • Food-borne • Salmonella • Water-borne • Hepatitis A • Vector-borne • Malaria • Air-borne • Chickenpox
Infection in one person can be transmitted to others Think about the simulation from a few weeks ago!!
Epidemic vs. Pandemic • Epidemic is where an infectious disease spreads over a wide geographical area. • Pandemic is where an infectious disease spreads across multiple continents, or even worldwide.
Here are a few… * Denotes diseases that are vector based.
AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) • Caused by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) • progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumors. • transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, and breast milk. • has not been found to be transmitted through saliva unless there is a cut in your mouth.
Malaria • a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans caused by eukaryotic protists • It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, including much of Subsaharan Africa, Asia and the Americas. • results from the multiplication of malaria parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases progressing to coma, and death.
Tuberculosis • caused by various strains of mycobacteria • usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body. • spread through the air when people who have active MTB infection cough, sneeze, or spit • classic symptoms are a chronic cough with blood-tinged sputum, fever, night sweats, and weight loss