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2 EPIDEMIC VS. PANDEMIC EPIDEMIC IS A MORE LOCALIZED OUTBREAK OF DISEASE. CAN COVER REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY. PANDEMIC SPREADS AROUND THE GLOBE AND INTO DIFFERENT CONTINENTS.

3 EPIDEMIC VS. PANDEMIC EBOLA WAS AN EPIDEMIC IN AFRICA CONFINED TO A CERTAIN REGION. SWINE FLU WAS A PANDEMIC BECAUSE IT SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD MOSTLY DUE TO TRAVEL BY AIR

4 IMPROVEMENTS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
SCIENTISTS STUDY MICROBIAL PATHOGENS TO FIND WAYS TO TREAT AND PREVENT DISEASES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH- COMPUTER MODELS- CELL CULTURE ANIMAL MODELS HUMAN CLINICAL TRIALS

5 CARDIAC DEATH PREDICTIONS
COMPUTER MODELS RUNNING COMPUTER SIMULATIONS TO PREDICT SPREAD OF DISEASE EPIDEMIC PROJECTIONS CARDIAC DEATH PREDICTIONS

6 CELL CULTURES GROWING CELLS AND OBSERVING THEIR PROPERTIES

7 ANIMAL RESEARCH Animal Model Medical Benefit for People
Table 1. Medical Research with Animals Saves Lives Animal Model Medical Benefit for People Dog Discovery of insulin Monkey Polio vaccine Mouse Rabies vaccine Pig Skin grafts for burn victims Pig Computer-assisted tomography (CAT) scans Rabbit Corneal transplants Rat Carcinogen screening

8 TESTING OF MEDICINES OR VACCINES ON HUMAN SUBJECTS HOOKWORM VACCINE
HUMAN CLINICAL TRIALS TESTING OF MEDICINES OR VACCINES ON HUMAN SUBJECTS HOOKWORM VACCINE

9 LET’S CONTINUE

10 PUBLIC HEALTH AND PREVENTION OF MICROBIAL DISEASES
SAFE FOOD HANDLING ( SANITATION GRADES FOR RESTAURANTS) GOOD HYGIENE- (WASHING HANDS, ETC.) ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMICALS (ANTIBACTERIAL SOAPS, WIPES, ETC.)

11 INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY
PROVIDES QUALITY CONTROL IN PREVENTING THE GROWTH OF BACTERIA AND SPOILAGE IN OUR FOOD SUPPLY. (food preservatives) PRODUCE PHARMACEUTICALS TO PREVENT AND TREAT THE SPREAD OF DISEASE

12 Now let’s finish!!!!!

13 BACTERIA Single-celled, no nucleus, are the smallest LIVING organisms.
Are found everywhere, air, water, soil, inside of your body and on your skin. They multiply very rapidly under favorable conditions and form colonies of millions of cells.

14 VIRUS A microscopic particle that gets inside of a cell and often destroys the cell. NOT LIVING!

15 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
PROTISTS GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS Most are single-celled Are eukaryotic ( they have a nucleus) Can be parasites

16 FUNGI Are heterotrophs that are so different they had to be given their own Kingdom. ( ARE EUKARYOTIC, RIGID CELL WALLS, NO CHLOROPHYLL) four types that you need to know: Threadlike fungi ) sac fungi Club fungi Lichens

17 THE BOTTOM LINE BE THEY GOOD OR BAD, THE HEALTH OF HUMANS AND THE EARTH DEPENDS ON MICROBES!

18 VECTORS Are mechanisms (other than people) that spread disease without getting sick itself. EXAMPLES- RATS TICKS MOSQUITOES SOIL


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