ANTHROP 2U03 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Epidemiology, Bubonic Plague
20 Nov 2018
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Some info for next week: tutorials start next week, nothing to hand in. What is a plague: three definitions of epidemic, 1. Epidemic: occurrence in a community of cases of an illness in excess of normal expectancy, new cases of a disease exceed the expected or endemic levels of infection, ex. Sars (became a pandemic: bubonic plague pandemics in europe, bubonic series of pandemics, there are three of them. What is a plague: plaga (greek) wound blow, pestis (latin) -> disease outbreak with a high death rate, plague, 1. Major event of high mortality affliction: 2. Key issues: the pathogen framework, microparasites and macroparasites, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, modes of transmission, portals of entry. Explanatory models/frameworks: hippocrates emphasized that environments are necessary as a framework, need to find the disease, deconstruct it so that we can avoid death. Another framework: pathogen framework developed by robert koch, he thought one microorganism would cause one specific disease.
