MBIO 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antibody, Sickle-Cell Disease, Fertile Crescent
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Non-cumulative nal - but need to know general content. Stories told in class by prof are examinable. Changed the way they dress due to syphilis causing their hair to fall out (wigs) and wore long sleeve to cover the sores on skin from syphilis. This fashion in judges is still exhibited today. Will go over more details about this topic in later lecture. Ebola was common before the outbreak but had a low infection rate. A vaccine was made before the outbreak, but it was shelved because it was so expensive no one wanted to use it. By the time the new outbreak happened, the old vaccine no longer worked. Usa gave the african health care bad advice about how to handle e. bola -> 534 health care workers died while taking care of the sick because they weren"t suf ciently protected themselves. Health care workers spread the disease to family when they went home after work.