Course Number: MIEH321
Section Number: SG91
Time: Wednesdays 3-5:50
Syphilis to SARS will examine
the influences of environmental factors economic development, migration, and
land use changes on emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases.
Population growth, development, climate change are impacting natural reservoirs
of infectious diseases and how they transmit through human populations. The
course will look at both historical accounts and newly emerging and reemerging
diseases including influenza as examples of our role in altering the diseases
that threaten us. We will also critically evaluate how the issues are portrayed
in news and entertainment media and controversy about the ethics of research on
deadly viruses.
With the current Ebola epidemic in West
Africa, the immigration of thousands of unaccompanied
Central American children, and the
recent discovery of forgotten smallpox samples in a laboratory freezer in Bethesda, this is an extremely
relevant course. Rich with material lifted right from the headlines, this
is will be a timely and thought-provoking course.
It is being taught on Wednesdays
from 3 – 5:50 p.m.
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