POPM 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bloodborne, Fomite, Antimicrobial Resistance
27 Mar 2018
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Human perspective: state of complete physical, mental, social well being. Animal perspective: state of physical and psychological wellbeing in terms of productivity. Animal perspective: abnormality of structure or function with an identifiable pathological or clinico-pathological basis and with a recognizable syndrome clinical signs. Factor that will produce a change in frequency or characteristic of the disease whether it is positive or negative influence. Any factor contributing to the health outcome. Aka: exposure, risk factor, independent, predictor, explanatory variable. Aka: response or dependent variable (disease, health/productivity, immune status, pregnancy) The first case observed with downer cows and other signs with humans getting sick too. Took over a year to figure out the cause. Dr. john wilesmith (the modern john snow) looked for things that are in common between the cows that were affected. They were all fed meat and bone meal of other ruminants.
