1 / 13

Summer 2008 Workshop in Biology and Multimedia for High School Teachers

Summer 2008 Workshop in Biology and Multimedia for High School Teachers. INFLUENZA VIRUS: A Model for Learning About Disease. Laurie St.Pierre Sandwich High School Sandwich, MA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:EM_of_influenza_virus.jpg.

shaeleigh-cross
Download Presentation

Summer 2008 Workshop in Biology and Multimedia for High School Teachers

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Summer 2008 Workshop • in Biology and Multimedia • for High School Teachers

  2. INFLUENZAVIRUS:A Model for LearningAbout Disease Laurie St.Pierre Sandwich High School Sandwich, MA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:EM_of_influenza_virus.jpg

  3. Understanding Influenza: A Contagious Respiratory Illness • Cause • History • Method of infection and replication • Symptoms and diagnosis • Prevention and Treatment • Current research

  4. file:///Users/outreach/Desktop/DESKTOP%202008/curr%20project/Image-3D%20Influenza%20virusfile:///Users/outreach/Desktop/DESKTOP%202008/curr%20project/Image-3D%20Influenza%20virus The influenza virus, commonly known as the flu, is an infectious disease of birds and mammals caused by RNA viruses. Commonly confused with a cold, the flu is a much more severe disease and caused by a different virus. CAUSE: RNA Virus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:3D_Influenza_virus.png

  5. History: Known Flu Pandemics Information taken from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/influenza

  6. 1918 Flu Pandemic • American Red Cross nurses tend to flu patients in temporary wards set up inside the Oakland municipal Auditorium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1918_flu_in_Oakland.jpg

  7. 1918 Flu Pandemic Facts: • May have killed as many people as the Black Death- bubonic plague • The majority of deaths were from a secondary infection such as bacterial pneumonia • It killed between 2 and 20 % of those infected; normal mortality rate is 0.1 % • It mostly killed young adults with more than half of the deaths in people between 20 - 40 years old due to novel surface proteins on the virus. • It killed as many as 25 million in the first 25 weeks, whereas HIV/AIDS has killed 25 million in the first 25 years. • Information taken from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/influenza

  8. Historical factors may have also contributed to the spread of the • 1918 -1919 flu: • Global war moving people great distances • Crowded conditions in troop ships Street car conductorfrom Seattle not allowing passengers aboard without a mask in 1918. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:165-WW-269B-11-trolley-l.jpg

  9. Method of Infection and Replication: • The flu virus binds onto sugars on the surfaces of epithelial cells such as nose, throat, and lungs of mammals and intestines of birds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Virus_Replication_large.svg

  10. Symptoms & Diagnosis: • Chills • Body aches, especially throat and joints • Coughing and sneezing • Extreme fever • Fatigue, headache, and nasal congestion • Though similar symptoms occur with a cold, they are much more severe with the flu! Information taken from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/influenza

  11. Prevention & Treatment of the Flu: • Get the flu vaccine each year due to high mutation rate of the virus. • Practice good hygiene and personal health habits. • Cover your mouth when while sneezing and wash your hands regularly as the virus spreads through aerosols. • Since the flu is a virus, antibiotics won’t work unless there is a secondary bacterial infection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Aerosol_from_Sneeze.jpg

  12. Influenza in the News: Scientists Recreate 1918 Flu Virus From Scratch By Mike Stobbe, Associated Pressposted: 05 October 2005 03:23 pm ET Insides of Flu Virus Revealed By Ker Than, LiveScience Staffposted: 26 January 2006 08:06 am ET Possible Path to Humans for Avian Flu Found By Sara Goudarzi, LiveScience Staff Writerposted: 16 March 2006 02:00 pm ET http://www.livescience.com/

  13. Current Research: • The Influenza Genome Sequencing Project - creating a library of influenza sequences to study why one strain is more lethal than another. • Research into new vaccines. • Study the infection in other animals, especially birds.Viral strains between species can occur. Scheme of avian influenza pathogenesis and epidemiologyLPAIV - low pathogenic avian influenza virus; HPAIV - highly pathogenic avian influenza virus; HA - haemagglutinin protein; dotted lines with arrows represent species barriers http://www.influenzareport.com/ir/ai.htm Courtesy of Timm Harder

More Related