MGY277H1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 88 pages long!)
13 Oct 2017
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Cholera (spread by contaminated water, continue to persist) Influenza pandemic in 1918 (made major impact on the calculated life expectancy) Infectious disease were major killer in 1900 in western country (influenza, tuberculosis, gastroentitis) Now the major killer are old people disease like cancers. Infectious disease remain a major killer in low-income countries: with additional new disease like hiv, children are getting hit the most. By the understanding of causes in infectious disease, our life expectancy doubled over the past century. Established public safety departments (water and food supply) Smallpox is one of the most success case (all virus extinct) Result in an accumulation of larger population, older and healthier. Modern society system of have made impossible to contain a disease. The gap between developing and developed country: we will not be able to conquer infectious disease if poverty and poor health care continuously exist. Microbiology is the study of micro-organisms / microbes (subfield of biology)
