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News & Views: When Humans Got Cozy, Germs Got Deadly
Posted on February 6, 2017 by Katherine Malanson | Categories: ID Unit3, Infectious Disease, News | | Add comment |

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Our first germs didn’t do much damage, until we gave up our hunter-gatherer ways and started farming. Watch Episode 1 of a three-part animated miniseries on the battle between humans and germs.

Watch the video NPR.org

News & Views: World’s first malaria vaccine gets green light
Posted on July 29, 2015 by Katherine Malanson | Categories: ID Lesson3-3, ID Unit3, Infectious Disease | | Add comment |

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The world’s first malaria vaccine has just passed an important hurdle. The vaccine, which researchers have been working on for 30 years, has been given a green light by European regulators.

Read more at iflscience.com.

News & Views: Drug-Resistant Food Poisoning Lands in the U.S.
Posted on April 3, 2015 by Katherine Malanson | Categories: ID Unit3, Infectious Disease | | Add comment |

Shigella is a huge problem around the world. The bacteria infect about 100 million people each year and kill about 600,000.CDC/Science Source

Travelers are bringing a nasty bacterial disease to the U.S. and spreading it to others. The bacteria cause bad diarrhea and are touch to treat because they’re resistant to the top antibiotic.

Read more at NPR.org.

News & Views: A Possible Downside to Squeaky Clean Dishes
Posted on February 23, 2015 by Katherine Malanson | Categories: ID Lesson3-1, ID Unit3, Infectious Disease | | Add comment |

clean dishes from a dishwasher lead to allergies?

A new study suggests that Swedish kids growing up in families that wash their dishes by hand are less likely to develop certain allergies than those families with dishwashers. These findings are the latest support to the “hygiene hypothesis” that proposes a lack of childhood exposure to infectious agents and parasites increases susceptibility to allergic diseases by suppressing the natural development of the immune system. But there may be more to it…

Read more at NPR.org.

News & Views: An interactive graphic to track the current Ebola outbreak
Posted on October 1, 2014 by Desislava Raytcheva | Categories: ID, ID Unit3, Infectious Disease, News | | Add comment |

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The New England Journal of Medicine has published an interactive graphic to track the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The map contains information on past outbreaks too as well as basic description of the disease, how it spreads, etc. You can view the graphic on the NEJM website.

 

News and Views: Ebola Outbreak In West Africa
Posted on April 10, 2014 by Jane Newbold | Categories: ID Lesson3-1, ID Unit3, Infectious Disease, News | | Add comment |

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“A health specialist prepares to work in an isolation ward where patients displaying symptoms of Ebola are held at the Doctors Without Borders facility in Guekedou, Guinea.” Source

A recent outbreak of Ebola in Guinea has experts worried and nearby West African countries watching their borders. Read about why — and what’s being done at Al Jazeera America (International W.H.O. says fight against West Africa Ebola outbreak just beginning) or listen at NPR (The Ebola Outbreak 3 Weeks In: Dire But Not Hopeless).