I thought it was very interesting and i learned a lot from watching it. Some key points I learned during the movie were...
- In Zaire, in 1976 a disease emerged that was said to affect 100% of the villages with 100% of the infected dying
- The disease that swept through Zaire was caused by Ebolia Fever virus
- the average life expectancy in Botswana from AIDs is about 40 and soon to be less then 30
- What gave Botswana the best chance of beating AIDs of all the African nations is it has a healthy economy, stable government, and many roads and schools
- Medicines were later developed to keep the virus in check, they cost kit them from being an option for most Africans
- 4,000,000 people world wide are infected with HIV
- Many people refused to get tested for HIV because they do not want to hear bad news
- The impact of making HIV testings a routine was the mediates who get many people tested and gets people who have symptoms
- Viruses NEED living cells to survive and multiply
- In 1854, London experienced a Cholora epidemic
- John Snow discovered that nearly all of the disease victims had the same water source
- Emerging diseases such as SARS, are especially dangerous because our bodies have no natural immunity to them
- More people died from the 1918 flu epidemic than any other epidemic in human history
- The flu virus has the ability to mutate rapidly. They can also exchange genes with other viruses
- H5N1 (a strain of influenza) moved from populations of wild birds to domestic birds. It then mutated allowing it to be transmitted from chickens to humans
What i though was the most interesting was the Bird Virus. I found that interesting because of all ways a virus can be spread i would have never guessed it could be transmitted by a bird, let alone a chicken!
Homework is...
UP28-31 AND read 35.3
The next Scribe will be... Kasia!
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