Relationship between public health and individual illness

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Assignment:

1. Connect past and present: How long are respiratory pathogens likely to survive outside the body: minutes, days, or weeks/months? Why?

2. Connect past and present: Are respiratory diseases in general likely to be serious/fatal in healthy individuals? Explain.

3. What does the USSR experience with diphtheria tell us about the relationship between public health and individual illness?

4. What is DOT and why is it the "gold standard?"

5. How were the developments of the 1918, H5N1 and 2009 H1N1 flus each influenced by human behavior? (And what is each?)

6. Describe four virulence factors that make GAS especially dangerous. Describe one for diphtheria.

7. Why do you think we distinguish HA- from CA-pneumonia, even though HA- and CA- can both be caused by many different and overlapping organisms?

8. List all the infections we discussed that are currently preventable by vaccine.

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