Introduction to Infectious Diseases: PHS 3506

After today's lecture, you should be able to answer the following questions:

1. What was the “Black Death?”

2. What kind of Public Health measures have helped to reduce the threat of infectious disease?

3. What kinds of infectious diseases routinely killed New Yorkers in the 1800s? What Public Health Measures did the City of New York implement which helped to lower the death rate from these types of diseases (see Powerpoint slides).


4. Who was Robert Koch? What are Koch’s rules for proving that an organism causes a specific disease? What types of disease-causing pathogens did Koch identify using these rules?

5. What are viruses? Who crystallized the first-virus? What are some of the human diseases caused by viruses?

6. What kinds of human diseases can be caused by protozoans?

7. What kinds of parasites are common sources of human infection around the world?

8. List several types of infectious diseases and their common routes of transmission.

9. The Public Health approach to controlling infectious diseases is to interrupt the chain of infection. What are the different “links” of the chain of infection?

10. What is smallpox and how is it transmitted?

11. What is polio? In what part of the world is it still a serious Public Health concern?

12. What is measles? What kinds of negative health impacts can it have on children? What impact did the measles vaccine have on Public Health (compare the number of measles cases in 1983 and 1962).


13. What two reasons are given for the failure to eradicate measles in the Unites States?


READING ASSIGNMENT FOR MONDAY, 10/28/13
Text:
ISBN #: 978-0-323-08692-9
Medical Microbiology, 7th edition
Patrick R. Murray, Ken S. Rosenthal, Michael A. Pfaller
Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, PA

Chapter 12: Bacterial Classification, Structure, and Replication
Chapter 13: Bacterial Metabolism and Genetics