Psychology 2036A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Osteoporosis, Measles, Artemisinin

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Sarah Khan

Document Summary

Speaker was under for pulmonary tuberculosis and advised not to travel. Tuberculosis: a communicable disease that can be spread when tb germs (bacilli) are propelled from a contagious person"s cough, sneeze, talk, or spit, sending the tb germs airborne to other persons within the vicinity. Speaker"s strain of tb was resistant to primary and secondary antibiotics. The cdc recommended that speaker consider isolation or quarantine to prevent spreading the disease to others. Speaker disregarded this recommendation and flew from atlanta to paris to greece to. Rome to prague, the czech republic and then to montreal. Speaker was eventually detained in new york and held in federal isolation for treatment at bellevue hospital. International travel is one way in which communicable disease can be transported to different countries. The ability of communicable disease to infect large numbers of people in many countries can create global health problems of concern to many health professionals.