INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTES:

1. What’s the difference between pathology and epidemiology?

Pathology: how a disease affects an individual (symptoms, treatment, cure, etc.)
Epidemiology: how a disease affects a whole population (how it spreads, prevention, etc.)

2. Scientists analyze and stop infectious diseases using the “epidemiologic triangle”:

**“germs”—pathogens that cause **people who might get infected

disease, like bacteria, viruses,
parasites HOST CHANGE THIS BY CORNER BY:
--bug spray
** “vectors” carry and transmit --wash hands, hygiene
pathogens (mosquitoes) -- vaccines
-- education
CHANGE THIS BY CORNER -- behavior change
BY: -- general health and immune system
** kill the pathogen or vector
(pesticides, antibiotics)

ENVIRONMENT
AGENT

** place where agent lives (wet, warm)

CHANGE THIS BY:
--clean environment, water
-- proper cooking & freezing food
UNDERSTANDING MALARIA (p. 509):

1. Malaria is the ______________ most deadly disease in the world. As many as

_____________________ people are infected every year, and __________________ will die.
2. Malaria is caused by sporozoans of the genus __________________. These are spread
between hosts by _______________________. Here’s how it develops:
STAGE 1: A __________________ mosquito bites a host and injects _________________
containing the Plasmodium parasite. ____________________ first invade _______________
cells, and produce _______________ of new parasites, destroying cells in the process.
STAGE 2: _____________________ infect __________________ cells, where more
merozoites are created, that _____________ out and infect more cells. When the cells die,
malaria causes these medical problems:

3. Malaria is transferred to another person when…… a mosquito bites and infected host, and
then carries the Plasmodium parasite to someone who is not yet infected.