{"id":7885,"date":"2022-05-28T04:14:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T04:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanbio.org\/?page_id=7885"},"modified":"2022-05-28T04:26:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T04:26:30","slug":"long-term-threats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/humanbio.org\/index.php\/campus-humanbio\/epidemics\/current\/long-term-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"10b1 Long-term Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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    Provide characteristics of bacteria and viruses that can cause infectious disease epidemics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Describe tuberculosis, including the form of transmission, degree of infection without symptoms, possible damage to lungs, and global occurrence.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Explain what antibiotic resistance is and how this resistance and biofilms are assisting the TB bacteria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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    Some diseases like malaria, influenza, and tuberculosis have been causing deaths for centuries and have still not been conquered.\u00a0 Epidemics<\/strong> are infectious disease occurrences that impact large numbers of people, sometimes for extended periods of time.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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    Although we usually are talking about bacteria and viruses when we consider epidemics, this video is a visual reminder of the impact of parasitic worms on humans.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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