BIOL1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Norovirus, Ebola Vaccine, Pertussis
29 May 2017
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Internal weathering of mountain due to limestone dissolution. Unstable coal tip slid after heavy rains. Mountain slope slid after heavy rains, deforestation, and mining. Area predisposed to landslides population has learned to adapt to landslides. Opposed to other natural disasters, pandemics affect a larger area because a disease can travel from person to person. Pandemic: an outbreak of disease over a very large area; affecting a large proportion of a population. Can affect a lot of people because diseases can spread from person to person. Recent increase in vaccinations has reduced pandemics. Pandemic sickens more people than it kills. People are more concerned about pandemics in recent years due to increased air travel. Development of methods for preventing pandemics involves preventing movement of disease. Pandemics have occurred historically and still threaten today. Book looks at bubonic plague and the 1918 influenza pandemic. Modern sanitation, antibiotics, and vaccination have significantly reduced deaths from communicable diseases.
