Diseases Essential Question: How do microbes influence the treatment/prevention of a disease?
Dec 27, 2015
Vocabulary
• Bacterial Disease Vaccine • Viral Disease Contamination• Resistance• Treatment• Antibiotics• Dose• Prevention
Bacterial Diseases
1. Rabies – transmitted through bite of infected animal.
2. Lyme disease – bull’s eye rash; tick bite.
Bacterial Diseases
3. Bacterial Meningitis – inflammation of nervous system.
4. Leprosy – skin lesions or blisters.
Viral Diseases1. AIDS/HIV – immune system
deficiency; more likely to get other infections.
2. Influenza – infection of nose, throat, lungs.
3. Common Cold – runny nose, sore throat, headache.
4. Chicken Pox – itchy blisters on skin.
Viral Diseases5. Polio – affects nerves; victims can be
paralyzed.
“Iron Lung” – Helps a person breathe.
Viral Diseases
6. Small Pox – infects blood vessels; causes severe rash and fever. Has been declared “eradicated” – wiped out.
7. Yellow Fever – fever that causes liver damage and jaundice, a yellow-ish skin color due to the liver damage.
Viral Diseases
9. West Nile – flu-like symptoms; mosquito carried illness.
10.Ebola – fever, rash, circulatory system infection, and organ failure.
Treatment
• A method to treat a patient once they are already sick.
• Viruses – only symptoms can be treated; immune system “fights” virus on its own.
Prevention
• Boosting a person’s immune system BEFORE contracting an illness, so the immune system can fight it off.
• Can be: vaccine, washing hands, sleep, exercise, etc.
Vaccine
• “Dead” or weakened form of a virus; injected to allow person’s immune system to fight it off on its own when it comes in contact with the virus.
Contamination
• When bacteria are present on unclean surfaces or food.
• Surfaces must be sanitized; food thoroughly cooked.
• Can lead to food poisoning / E.coli, salmonella.