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Cholera, Malaria, & Polio

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

CHOLERA

INFECTIOUS AGENT:

Vibrio

SYMPTOMS

TREATMENT

HOW IT'S TRANSMITTED

Feces from an infected person gets into the water people drink or the food people eat

HOW TO PREVENT IT

History

first cholera pandemic of 1817 SPREAD IN ASIa

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MALARIA

INFECTIOUS AGENT:

P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae and P. falciparum

SYMPTOMS

TREATMENT

DEPENDS SPECIES OF MALARIA, WHERE YOU GO IT, AGE, WEIGHT, AND PREGNANCY
Photo by DrChino

HOW IT'S TRANSMITTED

an infective female Anopheles mosquito

HOW TO PREVENT IT

HISTORY

THIS DISEASE HAS BEEN NOTED FOR MORE THAN 4,000 years
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POLIO

Photo by Wen-Yan King

INFECTIOUS AGENTS:

Poliovirus

SYMPTOMS

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HOW IT'S TRANSMITTED

SPREADS THROUGH CONTAIN WITH THE FECES, DROPLE OF SNEEZE OR COUGH

HOW TO PREVENT IT

VACCINATION

HISTORY

THE FIRST POLIO EPIDEMIC CASE WAS IN JUNE 17, 1894

HISTORY

POLIO VIRUS WAS IDENTIFIED IN 1908

HISTORY

EARLY VACCINE WAS DEVELOPED IN 1935
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