Disease Assignment for Bio 1112
You are to research one of the diseases on the list provided and write a report on that disease. This can be written as a paper, PowerPoint, etc. All of the categories listed below must be included. In writing your paper/PowerPoint, use the topic and Roman numeral to separate the topics. Your document will be run through Turnitin.com to check for plagiarism.
- Definition
- Include number of people affected every year, if known
- Tissue(s) specifically affected
- What is the particular tissue type, organ, cell, etc., affected?
III. Symptoms
- Causes: genetics, virus/bacteria/fungi, medications, injury/trauma, etc.
- What is the vector?
- Are there multiple hosts?
- How is it transmitted?
- Risk factors: age, sex, race, ethnicity, predisposition, etc.
- Complications
VII. Tests and diagnosis
VIII. Treatment and drugs
- Type of treatment
- Drugs used to treat the disease
- Survivor change: What are the chances of surviving the disease?
- Prevention
- Can it be prevented? If so, how?
- What strategies are in place to prevent spreading?
- What is the likely hood of contracting the disease in the United States?
- References
Disease List
- Dengue fever
- Yellow fever
- Zika virus
- Lyme disease
- West Nile virus
- Ebola virus
- Trichinellosis
- Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
- Trichomoniasis
- Neurocysticercosis