Judith S. de Nuño
http:/www.jdenuno.com

jdenuno@mhs-la.org

Science at Marymount

Cyber Office Hours
AIM: teachsci23

Please prepare a Power Point Presentation on your Topic

The Presentation Should be 8~10 slides long,
Including title slide and source slide

The Presentation must be mailed to the
Biology Honors Conference on FirstClass or
Mrs. Nuño at jdenuno@mhs-la.org

During the following presentations please write down 3~5 "facts" or bits of information that you find interesting or informative. You will be asked to use them in a summary at the end of the symposium

Summary Question:

Discuss issues associated with the spread and control of serious virus diseases. Would you  consider viral diseases a major health threat for the 21st century? Why or why not. Support your response with specific information gathered from the symposium.

Group 1:            The Nineteenth Century Medical Revolution http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/units/history/histories/path.html

Group 2:            Plagues and Peoples: the Columbian Exchange

http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/units/history/histories/plagues.html

Group 4:            Ebola & Lassa Fever

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/disinfo.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/vhf.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/ebola.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/lassaf.htm

Group 6:            Hanta Virus & other Rodent-Borne Viruses

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/arena.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/index.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hanta.htm

Group 8:            Hemorrhagic Fevers in Africa

http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/ebola/vhfafric.html

http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact208.html

Group 10:            Viral Diseases in Animals

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no6/daszak.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/virlfvr/ebola528.htm

Group 12:            Antibiotic Resistance

http://cer.hs.washington.edu/em_inf/resist/resist1.htm

http://ponderosa-pine.uoregon.edu/Bil99/CCM/menu.html

Group 14:            Malaria:  Counting Chromosomes and Beans

www.biomednet.com/hsmbeagle/70/notes/meeting