Lec. 25: Human Impacts on Microbial Communities

Question 1

Human Factors that Help the Spread of Emerging Diseases

Answer 1

• airplanes
• hotels
• ventilation systems/air flow
• global warming
• construction
• wars
• expanding human settlement

Question 2

Examples of Emerging Diseases

Answer 2

• SARS
• West Nile
• Zika
• Cholera
• Lyme Disease
• Diphtheria

Question 3

Carbon Fixation

Answer 3

converting carbon dioxide into organic matter

Question 4

An “emerging” disease refers only to a newly discovered disease. True or False?

Answer 4

False

Question 5

What is a common factor in the cases that were given in class?

Answer 5

Both had contact with wild animal meat

Question 6

Based on the information about the spread of the disease in this hotel, the pathogen is…

Answer 6

Air-borne

Question 7

On March 15, 2003, the World Health Organization terms the new disease a worldwide health threat. What disease was it?

Answer 7

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

Question 8

What human factor impacted the spread of SARS?

Answer 8

Air travel

Question 9

The WHO laboratory network announced conclusive identification of the SARS causative agent: a new _____, unlike any other human or animal member of the _______ family.

Answer 9

coronavirus; coronavirus