Tag: public health
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Troubled Waters – PBL Case
Cholera is an infectious disease that, in severe cases, results in vomiting and diarrhea, which, if left untreated, can lead to death caused by dehydration and electrolyte loss sometimes even within hours. In 1883 physician and microbiologist Robert Koch identified Vibrio cholera as the bacterium that causes the disease. It can be found in plankton,…
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Defense Down – PBL Case about the Spanish Flu
Was there something special about the biology of the 1918 influenza virus that made it particularly virulent or was there something special about it that made it particularly deadly? Or both? Or did the conditions in which people lived at the end of World War I exacerbate a viral strain that would otherwise have been…