ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Influenza A Virus, Epidemiological Transition, Microorganism
15 Dec 2016
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Know difference between epidemic, pandemic, endemic ! When inside of a community or region the incident of diseases goes to excessive amounts in community ! Suddenly cases of illness are higher ! Chart: epidemic spike shows that epidemic is there, they are the indicators! Also showed itself as a epidemic ! Through the time you started to have the increase of it showing itself in the population ! Sars, new disease that affects large number of people in a short period of time! Pandemic is scale and geography of epidemic ! Usually talked about in terms of a worldwide epidemic ! Sars was not only epidemic, brand new microbe, but then went pandemic and new spikes showed around globe! Series of pandemic that made movement throughout europe and overtime ! H1n1 pandemic, countries in red are community spread, and blue is con rmed cases !
