Black_Death2  ATM  200 - Natural Disasters

 

  Topic #2:  Pandemic Diseases

 

  Wednesday, 2 December 2015

 

Daily Announcements:

1) Exam #3 grades are posted on Blackboard.

2) Final Exam Review is Thursday, Dec. 10, at 2:45 PM in LC-18.

3) Final Exam is Dec. 17 at 10:30 AM (Bring #2 pencils, pencil sharpener, eraser.)

4) Final Exam:  Final five lectures (videos too!), geography, and most missed

     questions from Exams #1, #2 & #3.  (Refer to most missed topics lists.)

5) Please complete the on-line MyUAlbany SIRF class evaluation (6151).

 

Song #1:  “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” by Johnny Rivers

Song #2:  “Hot Blooded” by Foreigner

                                                                           “Racing Extinction”

Text Source Today:    none                      Discovery Channel, 9 PM tonight

 

·       Smallpox                                                     Notes Template

·       Bubonic Plague:  The Black Death           PDF    DOC

·       Cholera & Influenza

·       Pandemics Past, Current and Future (?)

·       Frontline (2014):  Ebola Outbreak

 

Study Guide Material (Stacey’s Guide) :

1)    Know the difference between a pandemic, epidemic and outbreak.

2)    What was likely the very first pandemic to affect humans?

3)    What is the only human infectious disease to be completely eradicated?

4)    What disease vector method effectively spread “The Black Death” to humans?

5)    What two human activities further spread the Plague each time it returned?

6)    Is the Plague still around today?

7)    What causes Cholera and where is it prevalent today?

8)    Know the difference between antigenic drift and antigenic shift.

9)    Which of all the diseases discussed killed the most people?

10)Name two current pandemics.

11)Why did Ebola typically only create outbreaks and not pandemics?