ANTH 3460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Smallpox, Aromatic Amino Acids, Herd Immunity

• School: Trent University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 3460
• Professor: Purcell John

Document Summary

Anth 3460 13/11/15 infectious disease: part 1. Cholera populations of gibraltar dying in 4 months of the summer, 1804. To be evolutionary successful, pathogens must be able to: infect a host, must go through stages of maturity, find another host, and either die, or kill the host. Based on predisposing factors or modifiers (i. e. age, autoimmune conditions, sex differences, and socio-economic status), your risk of getting or not getting a disease changes. Bacteria microscopic unicellular organisms capable of independent reproduction. Rickettsia microscopic unicellular organisms transmitted by ticks. Viruses submicroscopic infection agents incapable of multiplication external to a host. Prions infections proteins, without discernable nucleic acid. Viruses aka, obligate parasites require the host to reproduce/evolve- among the simplest of organisms. Human papillomavirus virus - triggers cancer producing genes. Hpv subtypes 6 and 11 are the responsible for 90% of all genital warts, subtypes 16 and. Men can carry hpv, and pass it on.