NATS 1670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Prairie Dog, Smallpox
12 Jan 2017
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Infectious diseases as a group will not disappear: New disease-causing agent: hiv/aids (originally recognized in 1983 in homosexual males, sars, mers-cov (sars made a short aggressive visit then disappeared, ebola (every new outbreak was due to contact with bats) Outbreaks of existing diseases: wet nile virus (wnv) in north america, influenza, monkey pox (in same family as small pox) Made way from africa to the united states) It"s everywhere and becoming a more aggressive virus) Bird flu transferred from chickens to chicken farmers. Transferred from africa"s giant gambian rat (smuggled to usa and sold to pet store) to prairie dog, then to human (who bought the prairie dog) and many others - 73 cases in one city (2003) Can infect humans and other animals (rats) Symptoms include rash, fever, chills and sores lasting 2-4 weeks. How mother nature and humans collaborate in emerging infections. Tires from africa want to recycle tires, sit in rain to be picked up,
