This unit teaches students scientific and medical vocabulary related to viruses, epidemics, pandemics, and vaccines.
Now Studying: Epidemics, Viruses, and Pandemics
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Viruses are strange microscopic organisms that behave unlike most other organisms we know. First, they are much smaller than even bacteria and they are not self-sufficient. Viruses need another living thing, called a host, in order to live and multiply. A virus manipulates its host’s cells into creating more viruses. Thus they are thought to be mostly parasitic in nature.When certain viruses…
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Protozoa are microscopic, amoeba-like organisms that live in liquid.
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The study found that crawfish, frogs, and other organisms had been destroyed over a large area of the estuary.
A living cell is the host in which a virus multiplies.
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- Has there been any serious viral outbreaks since the 2009 H1N1 pandemic? What was it? How did the medical community, press, and public at large respond?
- If you were a virus, what effect would you have on children, middle-aged people, and the elderly? Would you be a good virus or a bad virus? Is there even such a thing as a good virus? Explain.
