Download What`s Bugging You?

What’s Bugging You?
A Cyberhunt Activity on
Infectious Disease
By Dawn Hall for Biomedical
Technology
Click on the link for the
Immune Platoon
http://www.bam.gov/sub_diseases/diseases_immuneplatoon.html
Travel through the Immune Platoon presentation to answer the following
questions
1. What organs in the body produce
immune system cells? Draw a diagram
on your answer sheets and label the
organs.
2. What type of cells do these tissues
produce to attack the body’s enemies?
The Immune Platoon
3. What are the foreign bodies that act as
enemies called?
4. List three ways the Immune Platoon
prevents these foreign bodies from
harming you.
Click on the Vaccine tab
5. What is a vaccine?
Click on the Disease Tab
6. What is West Nile Virus? After reading
click on the CDC link and find the fact
sheet. List the symptoms and the cause
and vector of West Nile Virus.
7. What is the EPA?
Back at the diesase tab click on
SARS
8. What is SARS? Where did it start?
When?
Click on the Operation Infection Tab
9. What is epidemiology?
10. What are the four techniques the CDC
uses analyze, investigate and problem
solve to keep you healthy?
Click on the Disease Detective tab
11. Who is the Victor Vector?
12. What is a vector?
Click on this link:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/biote
rror/vacc_flash.html
13. After completing the interactive Making a
Vaccine activity , list and describe the six
types of vaccines.
Click:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bioterror/agents.html
14. List the eight agents of bioterror that
pose the greatest threat.
15. Briefly describe the following:
• Botulism
• Anthrax
• Cholera
• plaque
Click:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bioterror/faq.html
16. After reading the fact sheet, list 10
important points you’ve learned about
bioterrorism.
Click:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bioterror/hist_nf.html
17. How was bioterror used in Medieval
times?
18. What are soviet “superbugs”?
19. What form of bioterror has most recently
been used in the U.S.
20. What types of bioterror have been
weaponized by Iraq?
Click
http://www.nanobugs.com/activities/videos.php
21. What is Hepatitis A?
22. What are the symptoms?
23. How is it spread?
Click:
http://www.nanobugs.com/nanobugs/glossary.php
24. Define the following:
• Antibody
• Bacteria
• Virus
• Pathogen
• Fungus
• spore
Click:
http://www.cdc.gov/DiseasesConditions/
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Research the following infectious diseases. List the causative
organism, symptoms, treatment, and prognosis for each.
HIV
MRSA
Salmonella
Herpes
Smallpox
Common Cold
Influenza
Measles
Mumps
Rotovirus
Click:
http://www.cdc.gov/DiseasesConditions/
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Research the following infectious diseases. List the causative
organism, symptoms, treatment, and prognosis for each.
Ringworm
Histoplasmosis
Giardia
Malaria
Schistosoma(Swimmers Itch)
Trichinella
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Plaque
Ebola
Legionaire Disease
Click:
http://www.cdc.gov/DiseasesConditions/
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Research the following infectious diseases. List the causative
organism, symptoms, treatment, and prognosis for each.
Rubeloa
Tuberculosis
Lyme Disease
SARS
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Cholera
Click:
http://emergency.cdc.gov/
• Bioterrorism Unit
Click:
http://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/ricin/
• Ricin information
Click:
http://www.cdc.gov/Environmental/
• Environmental Health Issues