ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Facultative Anaerobic Organism, Pomegranate, Rodent
5 Feb 2016
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The pandemic model-movement over time: disease overtime, can be at rapid like sars that spread, black plague moved over a space over a space around through air travel the world known at that time. Great disasters: affect on populations, civilizations, The way people think about their worldview, changes in economies culture. Changes to public health: reoccurring theme, did the great black death cause change to public health and care (cid:1) Yersinia pestis (formerly pasteurella pestis) is a gram- negative rod-shaped bacterium. It is a facultative anaerobe that can infect humans and other animals. Human y. pestis infection takes three main forms: pneumonic, septicemic, and. Breaks down tissues and thers tissue death: bubonic plagues, patients develop sudden onset of fever,headache, chills, and weakness and one or more swollen, tender and painful lymph nodes (called buboes). Comes from the infected flea: this form usually results from the bite of an infected flea.
