Virus Symposium |
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Office
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Daily at Lunch in the Science Patio Cyber
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You are being provided with web links to the following
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Please prepare a Power Point Presentation on your Topic The
Presentation Should be 8~10 slides long, The
Presentation must be mailed to the
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During the following presentations please write down 3~5 "facts" or bits of information that you find interesting or informative. You will be asked to use them in a summary at the end of the symposium
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Summary Question: Discuss issues associated with the spread and control of serious virus diseases. Would you consider viral diseases a major health threat for the 21st century? Why or why not. Support your response with specific information gathered from the symposium. |
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Group 1: The Nineteenth Century Medical Revolution http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/units/history/histories/path.html |
Group 2: Plagues and Peoples: the Columbian Exchange http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/units/history/histories/plagues.html |
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Group 3: Factors in the Emergence of Infectious Diseases |
Group 4: Ebola & Lassa Fever http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/disinfo.htm http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/vhf.htm http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/ebola.htm http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/lassaf.htm |
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Group 6: Hanta Virus & other Rodent-Borne Viruses http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/arena.htm |
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Group 7: Dengue Fever |
Group 8: Hemorrhagic Fevers in Africa |
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Group 9: Management of Patients |
Group 10: Viral Diseases in Animals |
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Group 11: Emerging and Re-emerging Viruses |
Group 12: Antibiotic Resistance |
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Group 13: Viral Epidemics and Memory |
Group 14: Malaria: Counting Chromosomes and Beans |
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