1. 3/8 - 7 th Grade Agenda Collect HW: Reading & Notetaking p. 157 – 159 Chap 8 Test for absent students Viruses & Bacterias Textbook Reading 326 – 333 HW: Reading & Notetaking 160 & 161 6 Points Extra Credit: Bring a signed grade printout from home due 3/10 & 3/11 Last day to take back your poster is on 3/12. Any poster not taken back will be recycled.

2. What causes colds, flu, smallpox, AIDS? Viruses Cold Virus AIDS Virus Flu Virus

3. Is a virus alive? No Scientists does not consider viruses alive because it can not reproduce by it self It must multiply in another cell

4. Virus Virus contains single strand of DNA and protein coat protecting it.

5. Virus Once inside a cell a virus’s gen_____ material takes over many of the cell’s functions. It instruct the ce___ to produce the virus’s proteins and genetic material. etic ll

6. How Virus Spreads

7. Herpes Virus 80% of Adult Population has Oral Herpes 60% of Older Teenagers has Oral Herpes 25% of Adult Population has Genital Herpes 80% of people infected with Herpes Virus is not aware that they have it

8. How is Herpes Spread? Skin to Skin contact with person with an active Herpes (i.e. Cold sore) Kissing some body with active Herpes Sharing food or utensils with infected person Sharing towels with infected person There is no Herpes Vaccine Once you get Herpes you will have it forever

9. Symptoms of Herpes Oral Herpes: –Itchy around the sores –Pain around the gum and mouth –Last about 14 days and it will return Genital Herpes: –Itchy around the sores –Painful while urinating –May last weeks or months and it will return

10. Over 80 million men, women and children are infected with HIV Epidemic: The rapid spread of a disease so that many have it at one time Endemic: Common to a population Pandemic: Spreading over the entire continent or the whole world So Is AIDS an Epidemic, Endemic or a Pandemic? Its an Epidemic, Endemic and a Pandemic

11. About 1 out of 100 Americans have AIDS

12. About 1 out of 8 U. S. cases of AIDS are in California Over 100,000 AIDS Cases in California

13. Through which bodily fluids is AIDS transmitted? Blood Semen Vaginal Fluids Breast Milk

14. Through what part of the body is AIDS transmitted? Mouth Openings in Skin Anus Genitals

15. Hepatitis Virus – Infects the liver If you get this virus there is a chance that you will never get rid of it. 350 Million people world wide are infected with the virus and can not get rid of it (chronic)

16. Hepatitis Virus – How is it transmitted? Transmitted in a similar ways as HIV If you get infected with the Hepatitis Virus, it may damage your liver and lead to liver cancer. 350 Million people world wide are infected with the virus and can not get rid of it (chronic) You can get vaccinated against the Hepatitis virus so that you will be protected against it.