10/12/10 Period 8-Teaching the Class

Today in class we discussed most of the notes all three groups wrote down yesterday. Two groups had a virus and one group had a bacteria. One at a time each group went up to share their facts. The other groups wrote down these notes as each group was speaking. Be sure to copy down these notes if you were absent because they are important. The three diseases were Cholera, Small Pox, and HIV/AIDS. Cholera is a bacteria, Small Pox and HIV/AIDS are viruses. Below is a list of the notes on all three diseases that were taken in class today. HIV/AIDS were not fully discussed today in class, tomorrow we will continue the notes on HIV/AIDS.

Cholera-

• Bacteria
• Cholera is a dirraheal disease caused by bacterium vibro cholera
• Cholera can spread quickly through contaminated water and food that may have come in contact with feces of an infected person
• Clean water is not in very much access in countries like Bangladesh where this disease is populated
• Cholera is mostly effective to children and babies
• Some symptoms of this disease are vomiting, diarrhea, and a stomach ache
• Fazle Hasan Abad, a former accountant, founded the Bangladesh Rural advancement Committee (BRAC)
• Fazle also formed BRAC
• 100,000 people recover from the treatment
• treatment- molasses(sugar), salt, and CLEAN water
• caused by dehydration
• can be fatal
• can cause death by lack of water

The next group that went up today was Small Pox.

Small Pox-

• Virus
• infections
• may be fatal
• vaccine but no cure
• face to face contact needed
• visible marks on skin
• easy to diagnose
• 1st major virus

Small Pox Vaccine-

• first discovered in 1796
• global campaign
• WHO (World Health Organization) tried to stop the disease
• tech advance helped vaccines
• Eliminated in 1977 from the globe
• vaccine did not do much did not do much
• vaccine was NOT a cure
• if you give someone something that is weakened it is easier to fight off

HIV/AIDS were the last diseases we focused on today. We did not fully finish it but we did start some of it.

HIV-

• Virus
• a disease that infects human immune cells and reproduces them

H-umm

I-mmuodeticency

V-irus

AIDS-

• Virus
• first case June 1st, 1781
• NO CURES
  400,000 people die from it a year

A- cquired

I- mmune

D- eficency

S- yndrom

-SK!