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SEPTEMBER 9
INSTRUCTIONS
As you watch the trailer, look for the interactive hotspots:
Click on a hotspot to reveal facts and other information related to CONTAGION.
WEST NILE VIRUS
WEST NILE VIRUS arrived in New York City in 1999, via mosquitos riding airplane wheel wells.
PANDEMICS
PANDEMICS usually arise from diseases evolving from animal to human infection, through the domestication of animals.
FOMITE
FOMITE: any inanimate object that carries and transfers an infection between individuals.
SMOOTH FOMITES
SMOOTH FOMITES: such as doorknobs, have higher transmission rates than porous materials, like paper money.
VIRULENCE
VIRULENCE: the relative ability of a pathogen to cause disease.
R0
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: also known as R-NOUGHT or R0, is the number of people one infectious person will infect in a population.
TOTAL ATTACK RATE
TOTAL ATTACK RATE: is the total proportion of the population that will be infected in the first wave of infection.
BIOSAFETY LEVEL
BIOSAFETY LEVEL 4: the highest level of bio containment precautions required to isolate infectious biological agents, as determined by the CDC.
ZOONOSIS
ZOONOSIS: any infectious disease transmitted from non-humans to humans. 1415 pathogens are known to affect humans, 61% originate in non-human infections.
DISEASE INVASION
DISEASE INVASION: the emergence of a pathogen into a new host species.
CDC
The CDC was originally created in 1946 to combat malaria in the United States.
CDC
The CDC is budgeted at nearly 10 billion dollars annually.