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Berry College Tropical Biodiversity and Conservation: BIO383 Tropical Biomedicine: BIO480

Berry College Tropical Biodiversity and Conservation: BIO383 Tropical Biomedicine: BIO480. Costa Rica, Summer 2011. Tropical Biomedicine. The focus is on three main topics relevant to tropical biomedicine.

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Berry College Tropical Biodiversity and Conservation: BIO383 Tropical Biomedicine: BIO480

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  1. Berry College Tropical Biodiversity and Conservation: BIO383 Tropical Biomedicine: BIO480 Costa Rica, Summer 2011

  2. Tropical Biomedicine • The focus is on three main topics relevant to tropical biomedicine. • Why tropical infectious diseases persist and the ecology of disease emergence into new populations. • The biology and epidemiology of human diseases common to tropical climates. • Differences in regional approaches to healthcare and how traditional biomedical therapies can be integrated.

  3. 3 credit hours • Designed to compliment Tropical Biodiversity and Conservation. • The study of disease has to be in the context of the ecology that supports and spreads a pathogen. • Epidemiology IS the ecology of a specific disease. • Virtually all disease pathogens have emerged from animal reservoir species.

  4. What will you do? • Participants will be involved in field epidemiological exercises. • Guest lectures by regional experts on disease and healthcare. • Laboratory exercises • Group and individual presentations • Group discussions

  5. A stream untouched by man.

  6. A new primate species infects the stream!

  7. Costa Rica in 2009 was AMAZING, but just wait until 2011!

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