GEOG 3P85 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Multiple Drug Resistance, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Influenza A Virus Subtype H7N7
16 Jul 2015
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Geog 3p85 lecture 4: re-emering diseases and solutions. Re-emerging diseases: geographical spread: travel of human hosts or vectors (e. g. , airline spread of sars, spread of. Virus shows big/rapid genetic drift & mutation: mystery: don"t know # of actual fatalities (h5n5, h7n7) also pig-human-bird viruses. Figure 1: fluoroquinolone use and correlation to ciprofloxacin resistance among uropathogens in british columbia. Deliberately emerging infections : long used by military (e. g. , catapulting plague corpses over castle walls, british gave. Bioterrorism & biowarfare smallpox blankets to indians in seven years war, 1754-1763). 1984 salmonellae used by religious cult in oregon to influence an election. Emerging viruses: the number of known disease-causing viruses has been increasing. They continue to appear in places and in epidemiologic contexts that are unpredictable and novel for us. Transmission of hemorrhagic fevers, etc: mode of transmission is unclear, aerosols from animals to humans. Center for disease control: all of the following were discovered during the 1990s: sabia virus,
