Q1. How does an epidemic become a pandemic?
Q2. How are bacteria different to viruses?
Q3. How are antibiotics different to vaccines?
Q4. Explain how exposure to antibiotics can select for more resistant strains of bacteria to emerge.
Q5. Why can't you use an antibiotic to cure a cold?
Q6. How does HIV relate to AIDS?
Q7. How do modern treatments of HIV prevent people from developing AIDS?
Q8. Prion diseases cause degeneration in the nervous system. Unfortunately, there is no cure for a prion disease. Populations that practiced cannibalism (thankfully NOT common) tended to have much higher rates of obtaining prion disease because prion diseases are caught by eating contaminating tissue that contain infectious particles made up of what type of macromolecule?
Q9. How to you obtain a parasitic worm infection?
Q10. What transmits malaria to humans?
Q11. What type of blood cell does malaria infect and ultimately rupture open?
Q12. What disease prevents you from getting malaria? How?