J+-+EQ3

toc

Isn't the EQ: What measure can we take/do you take, personally, to prevent the spread of disease? =Angela= To prevent the spread of disease, I try to stay clean and away from bacteria and viruses, so I wash my hands with soap at least three times a day. You should use soap when you wash your hands because, like we talked about in class, soap helps get rid of most bacteria on you, and it can help you and people around you stay clean, and healthy. Many people just wash their hands with water, but water does not get rid of all the bacteria, and you can easily get sick that way. So to help prevent the spread of disease, you should use soap when you wash your hands, and wash your hands at least three times a day. http://www.flickr.com/photos/90819592@N00/2887960268 Here's a picture of soap, it helps kill bacteria and prevents the spread of disease. Back to Top Harry: I completely agree with what you said. Soap is the best way to get rid of germs and bacteria. =Harry= We, as people who respect cleanliness, could wash our hands daily and make sure that we aren't around a large number of people when we're sick. Washing our hands isn't just running our hands under the water; we have to use __soap__ and water. Soap helps detach the bacteria and germs on our hands, so we can wash them off with water. It's better than hand sanitizer, because hand sanitizer makes the surviving bacteria immune to those chemicals, so if you use it again, it's going to be useless. This is a large crowd. If you don't want to spread the disease to others, don't go near them. Especially men with long hair and bare bodies.

Louise: Your paragraph is well written and accurate. I like your picture :] I dont think men with long hair and no shirts will have diesases more often than other people, they'll only be for the most part germier and sweatier. Lyle: I agree with what louise said. You could of also explained how bacteria become immune to the chemicals, The bacteria's offspring mutate and become stronger and more resistent to antibacterial chemicals Mathieu: Nice post! But I have a question, why if your in a big crowd you should stay away from people with long hair and bare bodies? Ryan: I agree we should not go near crowds.

=Hannah= We have been learning about the spreading of diseases. After studying about foodborne diseases, which are diseases that are transmitted through food that contain pathogens, I have become much more careful and cautious about sharing food and drinks with my friends. There is a very simple solution to preventing the spread of foodborne diseases: DO NOT SHARE FOOD.

Another way to transmit diseases that we have been studying is person-to-person. This is the very usual one, a disease passed from one person to another. This can be done in many ways: cooking when sick, sneezing or coughing, sharing food or drinks (there it is again!!), handshakes, any contact at all actually, and especially runny noses. To prevent these, I have come up with a few solutions: the infected person could wear a mask when cooking or just not cook at all, sneeze or cough into their arm/shoulder or a tissue, DO NOT SHARE FOOD and wear gloves or some sort of protection.

Birds break rules too (: If that tiny bit of food contained pathogens, that bird would be passing a disease onto the other. D: Angela: Wow, your paragraph is really well written, especially all the 'DO NOT SHARE FOOD' and specific stuff. I love your picture. (: Birds share food too! =)

Louise Some measures you can take to prevent the spread of disease include washing your hands after going to the bathroom, after you sneeze, and taking vaccinations to prevent you from getting diseases such as chicken pox, tuberculosis, influenza, and rabies. Some measures you can take to prevent communicable diseases by not sharing food, utensils and drinks. If you're sick, then you can wear a mask, wash your hands constantly, and staying out of contact of other people when you're sick to prevent other people from getting sick. It is a lot easier to get sick when you are around a lot of other people, because they can be sick and transfer it to you. You have to make sure your water and food is clean, and doesn't have any harmful chemicals in it, otherwise you might be infected with a foodbourne disease. my picture. I cant insert it somehow. []

=Lyle= To prevent spread of disease there are meany this we can do. The most important thing is to wash your hands at least three times aday since you touch lots of things with your hands and use them for lots of things which cuases lots of bacteria to accumulate on your hands. Make sure you wash your hands with soup becuase soup has special chemicals that loosen the dirt which carrys the bacteria on your hand so it can easily be washed away with the water.You must also be aware of all the ways diseases are spreaded so you can prevent them from spreading, They are spreading by the following, person (infected) to person contact, airborne transmission(contaminated air), Fooborne transmission( contaminated food), animal(infected) to person contact, and touch infected objects. The following picture shows the correct way to wash your hands to make sure you get off all the dirt. Picture source:http://www.geocities.com/eprc_amin/washinghands.jpg backtotop

=JX= There are many different kinds of diseases, all of which can be spread in many different ways. There are person-person, foodborne and airborne. Person-person is transmitted when someone has a disease, and comes into contact with someone else. They spread the disease to the other person. Foodborne is when food is infected, and when you eat the food, you have a chance of getting infected. Airborne is when the disease can spread through the air. Airborne is one of the hardest ones to contain within an area. We can't tell air to stay where it is. I think airborne is interesting, since staying home will not stop the disease from getting into your house. Washing your hands 3 times a day and not touching mucus membranes doesn't really do much. The only way to not get infected by an airborne disease is, well, to get into an airtight chamber. An example of an airborne disease is tuberculosis (TB). TB is when bacteria in the air attack your lungs. The symptoms are usually a chronic cough, fever, night sweats, etc. Below is a picture of bacteria that are airborne.

Link: http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us Back to Top

David: Is there No Way we can prevent an airborne disease???Airbornes are unpredictable...

=Mathieu= Today there are many ways that diseases spread. One way is through spoiled and rotten foods. When a food gets bad (its has been contaminated by a bacteria) it can often infect your body. Like in the case of salmonella, salmonella is when a chicken or its eggs are contaminated. If you eat a chicken that has been contaminated by a salmonella bacteria, you have a hight chance of being sick. One way I prevent myself from being sick by food borne diseases, is by simply looking at the expiration date on the foods I buy. Below is an image of how you might feel if you have a food borne disease. Daniel R: I disagree that you can fully prevent food borne diseases by checking the expiry date. Sometimes food can go bad if unrefrigerated, or if it came into contact with contaminated objects. Also, you can't tell the expiry date of water, so you have to be observant in order to recognize if food has gone bad. Back to top

=David= I usually wash my hands more than 5 times a day and it comes to me as a habbit. To prevent the spread of disease, you would want to keep clean, stay away from infected people, don't share food. One another important aspect of preventing a disease I think could be visiting the doctor once or twice a year eventhough you don't have an symptoms. You never know if the disease is going on slowly with no particular symptom in the early stage and suddenly cause symptoms when it is already serious. Cancer is a great example of a disease that falls into this category. Cancer normally starts off with a weak symptom or even none but as time goes, the symptoms suddenly come to you and you go to the doctor and you have to have like a big surgery. You probably don't want that to happen so I think you should visit the doctor even at least once 2 years and more as you become an adult. You also need good nutrition to be able to build a healthy body... [] Back To Top

=Daniel R.= Despite healthy habits such as washing your hands frequently, and etc, you will still catch a disease once in a while. To improve the chances of not catching a disease even more, you should be sure to take the vaccines that your doctor suggests. Vaccines were first created in the 19th century, when a man named Jenner discovered that while a wide population of people in China had the smallpox, the milkmaids did not. He then did some more research and found out that cowpox can help improve the immune system in the human body to prevent smallpox. This was the basic principles of how vaccines work, by training your body to recognize and remove a harmless or almost harmless disease so when a more serious disease like it comes, your body will be able to get rid of it quickly. However, not all vaccines work the same. Some train your immune system to kill the disease, other times it will only train your body to disable the disease. In more detail, vaccines are really just training your white blood cells so they can quickly recognize the disease, and then create the right proteins to either kill it or disable it. In conclusion, taking vaccines can help prevent the spread of disease by decreasing the people that are affected by the disease, so less of the population gets sick. This picture shows a vaccine as an example on how to prevent diseases Cite: http://www.biojobblog.com/vaccination(5).jpg Back to Top

=Josephine= Increasing daily personal hygiene (not with an antibiotic product) and taking a vaccine are two good ways to prevent all three kinds of spreading diseases. You can prevent a person-to-person disease by not going into crowded areas and not having close contacts with people (like kissing); foodborne diseases can be prevented by not eating or drinking raw, dirty and rotten food; it is a little harder to prevent an airborne disease because air is everywhere and holding your breath just makes you die faster, I think the best way to prevent it is to stay away from the infected area and stay at your home. Taking a vaccine is another way to prevent your body from spreading diseases. Vaccine can either be a shot or powder. (mostly shot) The point of getting a vaccine is to give your immune system an opportunity to look at the pathogens they are going to fight in the future. A vaccine contains dead or weakened pathogens that can no longer do harm to your body. Once the pathogens get into your body, the b-cells in your immune system will fight it off and your body will develope an immunity to the specific kind of pathogen. Most vaccines are taken when you were a baby since its better to prevent it earlier. However some of the vaccines are too strong or not appropriate for babies so you take them when you grow older.

Here is a picture of a dead bacteria, something that is in the vaccine...

Source: [|elrond.biol.soton.ac.uk/ %7Ejwarner/Images.html] Back To Top =Ryan= If you want to stay healthy for person to person you must: Stay home (if sick) Wear a mask Don’t touch others Wash your hands Stay away from sick people

If you want to stay health for food to person you must: Ask the chef if it is well done Ask where the foods came from Don’t share foods Don’t eat expired foods Don’t eat foods that touched the floor Don’t eat foods that doesn’t look that good

If you want to stay healthy from animal to person you must: Stay away from stray dogs/cats Don’t go to farms STAY AWAY FROM BIRDS (might cause bird flu) Give your pet the shot

If you want to stay healthy from object to person you must: Stay away from dirty-looking objects After touching something wash you hands Be sure to know where it came from Don’t chew on it

Overall you must: Get some sleep Wash your hands atleast 3 times a day ( I wash atleast 5) Good hygine (showers) Exersise [] Back To Top

=Brandon= If you know that you are sick or that you have something that could be or is contagious you should stay at home. At schools alot of parents still make there children go to school even when they are sick. Becaus they did that the sickness that the child has could spread to other people and cause othes to get sick. The sickness could possibly become panemic. There are many other ways to prevent the spread of disease like washing your hands atleast 3 times a day and not touchig mucous membranes (rubbing or touching your eyes, picking your nose). You shoud also be clean most of the time like taking showers daily. Many people also eat food off of the floor. People think that if the food wasnt on the floor for mor than 5 seconds that it is still clean, but the food becomes dirty the second it touches the ground. Because bacteria is all over the ground, the bacteria that can get you sick.

This is a picture of the bacteria that have the plague, there contagious []

[|Back to top]

=Paige= What can we do to prevent the spread of disease? If you have a sickness such as a common cold, or a flu, you should always wash your hands and cover your mouth when you cough. You should avoid person to person contact and you should not share food, drinks, ext... If you have something a little bigger, such as pink eye, ext.., you should stay away from other people to aviod spreading the virus/ disease. You should also go to the docter's so you can get a medicine or antibiotic ( if needed). If you have a more severe sickness such as the Black Pleague, you should stay away from everything and everyone, because the Black Pleague is very contagious and very deadly. You should lock your self in a well- sealed enviorment, and not make ANY person to person contact.



[] back to top

=Owen= There are a lot of things we can and should do to prevent the spread of diseases and they are very simple. For example if you have a cold you shouldn't go around people because they might get sick too. It's not only safe but it's also rude to knowingly spread a disease. They are many measures you can take to prevent diseases and they are very simple. If you have a cold then you don't go around other people. To prevent yourself getting a disease don't share food, cover your cough, and wash your hands at least 3 times a day.