2.1 health in the 21 st century pg 29-32. objectives gain an understanding of the cholera bacterium...
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Objectives
• Gain an understanding of the cholera bacterium and how it spreads as well as efforts to stop the spread.
• Describe low tech solutions to preventing outbreaks.
• Define epidemiology and terms associated with it.
From Aug 2008 to Jan 2009 there were over 40,000 confirmed cases of cholera in Zimbabwe. Over 2,000 of those were fatal.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/4228239/Zimbabwe-cholera-epidemic-kills-2000.html
Spread of Cholera
• Carried in water by small animals called copepods and in their egg sacks.
• Burst from the egg sacks when the copepod hatches and feed on the egg shell.
Now for a positive note…
• Epidemiology – the study of how diseases spread.– Ex: Rita Colwell studied the spread of the
pathogen cholera.
• Vaccines – used to increase resistance to infection by a disease by injecting genetic information from a dead or weakened pathogen into a host (that’s you).
Genetics and Treating Diseases
• Genetics – the science of heredity– Gives insights into how a disease can be
prevented, cured, or fought based on its genome.
• Genome – the complete set of genetic information for an organism.
Objectives
• Describe how genetic engineering affects our lives.
• List new ways that biotechnology has provided for scientists to study biological processes.
• Apply ethics to biotechnology.
Topics Today:
• Biotechnology and Scientific Research• Nanotechnology• Biomolecular Materials• Biomimetics• Adapting Tools and Methods• Public Safety• Ethics of Biotechnology
Issues or problems?
• What are some possible ethical issues with genetic engineering or with recording biological information about a person?