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 Disease Detectives
- Generally available once a year
- Three credit hours…two hours of lecture + two hours of lab per week
- The Disease Detectives examines the science of etiology (the causes of disease), as well as the science of epidemiology (the distribution of diseases)
- Devastating agents of disease, such as anti-biotic-resistant staphylococcus, he Marburg virus, and the Ebola virus can kill thousands of people every year
- History tells us that devastating disease epidemics such as the Bubonic plague of the 1350’s and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic killed many millions of people
- New threats, such as Asian Avian flu, combine with deadly re-appearances of old foes such as polio and smallpox, endanger entire populations today
- The lecture topics cover the concepts of good health vs. poor health, infectious vs. non-infectious diseases, the general population patterns of global diseases, the late 20 th-Century explosion of sexually-transmitted diseases (STD’s), and the theoretical models used to track epidemic diseases
- The lab exercises review the basics of microbes, focusing on safe strains of non-virulent bacteria, harmless parasites, and viruses
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