Disease Detectives B/C

Tailsfan101 · Post by **Tailsfan101** » September 5th, 2017, 8:41 am

Welcome to the Disease Detectives B/C Question Marathon!

List the five biggest outbreaks and pandemics in history.

Knyte_Xjn · Post by **Knyte_Xjn** » September 13th, 2017, 6:21 pm

Tailsfan101 wrote:Welcome to the Disease Detectives B/C Question Marathon!

List the five biggest outbreaks and pandemics in history.

Answer (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Black Death, 1918 Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS, Plague of Justinian, Antonine Plague

Tailsfan101 · Post by **Tailsfan101** » September 14th, 2017, 7:20 pm

Knyte_Xjn wrote:
Tailsfan101 wrote:Welcome to the Disease Detectives B/C Question Marathon!

List the five biggest outbreaks and pandemics in history.
Answer (Click to Show Hidden Text)
Black Death, 1918 Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS, Plague of Justinian, Antonine Plague

Correct! Your turn.

Knyte_Xjn · Post by **Knyte_Xjn** » September 15th, 2017, 5:40 pm

Tailsfan101 wrote:
Knyte_Xjn wrote:
Tailsfan101 wrote:Welcome to the Disease Detectives B/C Question Marathon!

List the five biggest outbreaks and pandemics in history.
Answer (Click to Show Hidden Text)
Black Death, 1918 Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS, Plague of Justinian, Antonine Plague
Correct! Your turn.

List Koch's postulates.

Post by **Froggie** » September 17th, 2017, 12:35 pm

I think (Click to Show Hidden Text)

1. Microorganisms have to be found in all organisms that have the disease but not in the ones that don't. 
2. Microorganism has to be separate from organisms with the disease. 
3. Microorganism must cause a disease.
4. Uhh... Said microorganism must be the same as another microorganism (?)

Susan · Post by **Susan** » September 18th, 2017, 7:27 am

Kochs postulates:
Pathogen is present in every case of the disease, can be isolated from host and cultured, can be used to infect animals in the lab, and then be isolated from that animal again, right?

Diego · Post by **Diego** » September 21st, 2017, 1:22 pm

A vector is A quantity having direction as well as magnitude, especially as determining the position of one point in space relative to another. Or
An organism, typically a biting insect or tick, that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another. The most recent and severe flue epidemic was The H1N1 of 1918

Tailsfan101 · Post by **Tailsfan101** » September 21st, 2017, 1:35 pm

Diego wrote:A vector is A quantity having direction as well as magnitude, especially as determining the position of one point in space relative to another. Or
An organism, typically a biting insect or tick, that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another. The most recent and severe flu epidemic was The H1N1 of 1918

The point of Question Marathons is for people to pose questions and others to answer them. For example:

Person 1 wrote:What are the three main modes of transmission?

Person 2 wrote:Airborne, Vectorborne, and Vehicleborne.

Person 1 wrote:Correct! You may now pose a question.

Knyte_Xjn · Post by **Knyte_Xjn** » September 22nd, 2017, 9:17 pm

Froggie wrote:
I think (Click to Show Hidden Text)
1. Microorganisms have to be found in all organisms that have the disease but not in the ones that don't. 
2. Microorganism has to be separate from organisms with the disease. 
3. Microorganism must cause a disease.
4. Uhh... Said microorganism must be the same as another microorganism (?)

Correct! Your turn. (Susan, your answer is correct too, but since Froggie answered first, I'll let him ask the next question)

Post by **Froggie** » September 27th, 2017, 2:58 pm

What does a point source epi-curve look like? (Just describe it)

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