Pathogens, Common Diseases and Their Prevention

Name: Pathogens, Common Diseases and Their Prevention
Author: StemPy Lab

What health means, and which germs cause typhoid, pneumonia, the common cold, dengue, chikungunya, malaria, amoebiasis, ascariasis, filariasis and ringworm. You follow the malarial parasite through a mosquito and a person, and learn how clean water, clean food and control of mosquitoes prevent disease.

3 lessons, about 1 h 30 min3 simulations11 problems3 practice questionsPython in every lesson

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Lesson 1about 30 min
Health, pathogens and the diseases of bacteria and viruses
Health is more than the absence of disease. A disease that passes from person to person is caused by a pathogen, such as a bacterium, a virus, a fungus, a protozoan or a worm. This lesson names the pathogen, the way of spreading and the symptoms of typhoid, pneumonia, the common cold, dengue and chikungunya.
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Lesson 2about 30 min
Malaria and the life cycle of Plasmodium
Malaria is caused by a protozoan, Plasmodium, and spread by the female Anopheles mosquito. The parasite lives in two hosts. It multiplies in the liver and in the red blood cells of a person, and the sexual stages unite in the gut of the mosquito. The fever comes when many red cells burst together.
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Lesson 3about 30 min
Worms, amoebae and fungi, and how diseases are prevented
Amoebiasis, ascariasis, filariasis and ringworm are caused by a protozoan, a roundworm, a filarial worm and fungi. Most diseases are prevented by personal hygiene, public hygiene, control of vectors and vaccination. A short weekly routine of emptying water containers breaks the life cycle of a mosquito.
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Pathogens, Common Diseases and Their Prevention

Course outline (3 lessons)

Health, pathogens and the diseases of bacteria and viruses

Malaria and the life cycle of Plasmodium

Worms, amoebae and fungi, and how diseases are prevented

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