CT203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Protozoa, Microorganism, 1918 Flu Pandemic
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His generalizations and points still apply today. The vulnerable get sick (people in prisons, those living in poor neighborhoods, those living in poorly ventilated housing) vs. well- fed people, people not living in crowded conditions, etc. [the 1918 flu pandemic is the disease that has killed the most amount of people to-date; killed more people than world war i and the black. Health: a continuing property that can be measured by the individual"s ability to rally from a wide range and considerable amplitude of insults, the insults being chemical, physical, infectious, psychological, and social. Disease: that alteration of living cells or tissues that jeopardizes survival in their environment . Health & disease as adaptive pressure: states of health or disease are the expressions of the success or failure experienced by the organism in its efforts to respond adaptively to environmental changes . Pathogenic microorganism (microbe): microscopic organism that causes disease (e. g. , bacteria, viruses, protozoa)
