BIOL 119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Organism, Laurie Garrett, Parasitology
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Age of optismism because more antibiotics were becoming prominent and were in widespread. Emerging diseases: discussion questions on chapter two health transition in the. Read the chapter 2 of the coming plague. Make sure that you save a copy of the answers and discussions. In the 1960"s and 70s what happened to the scientific discipline known as parasitology? use. Laurie garrett clearly thinks that medical science has one major smallpox-related success story in the 1960-1980 period that overshadowed all others and influenced many policy decisions. Causes massive skin eruption and lethal up to 30% of cases. Variola major is the official name of small pox. Highly transmissible and can catch by coming in contact of people who had the virus or by breathing in the virus. Thought to go back to the time of the pyramids in.
