ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: West Nile Fever, Zoonosis, Ergotism
16 Oct 2018
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Protozoa: single celled with complex life cycle, many stages, amoeba dysentery, plasmodium falciparum malaria, schistosome mansoni schistomiasis comes in through contact with water, just needs contact with skin. Macroparasites: can be seen with the naked eye, some live inside the body, can be chronic and cause long term damage, dracunculiasis (guinea worm) stays in water. Contact transmission: skin first line of defense, has microbiota which can help you, substance in the eye will also kill microorganisms but if you get injured in the eye, then infections can come about. Hand sanitizer: not good, can cause resistance, extinguish the rest of microbiome (killing off good and bad bacteria, ringworm doesn"t have to be skin to skin contact, Respiratory or saliva transmission: smaller bacteria can be swallowed or inhaled, sneezes can travel very far and spread bacteria a lto, disease of respiratory tract tuberculosis, if left untreated, 50% of people can die.
