Answer 1

My essential question is " What is the most important thing to know in the diagnosis of an infectious disease?"

1.) Symptoms may relate to another medical condition or an underlying harmless effect of another disease, but symptoms are a main factor in diagnosing an infectious disease, symptoms help you identify what is being effected, which helps narrow down the possible diseases.

2.) My three evidence are Epidemiological Triad, Similar Diseases, and Bacterial vs. Viral Infection.

Epidemiological Triad- When a new disease emerges, epidemiologists use the Triad, including symptoms, so they see what if the unknown disease affecting.

Similar Diseases- When you know the symptoms you can relate them to other diseases that maybe similar to what is effecting the host. When Ebola first came out, the epidemiologists related it to the Dengue Fever, a disease that is very similar to Ebola.

 Bacterial vs. Viral- The symptoms usually tell if someone has a bacterial or viral infection. One common symptom attached to bacterial diseases, is a fever. Another thing that helps pinpoint a bacterial infection is that they are usually a respiratory, or digestive tract infection.

3.) I haven't really put my sources on my WB, because the second two were common knowledge, and the first one, I just read up on a website and didn't think about using it as an article. But I found four sources that prove my answers.

• "Bacterial Diseases - Symptoms - Better Medicine." BetterMedicine.com - Health and Medical Information You Can Trust. - Better Medicine. Web. 19 Jan. 2012. <http://www.bettermedicine.com/article/bacterial-diseases/symptoms>.
• Understanding the Epidemiologic Triangle through Infectious Disease. CDC- Center of Disease Control. PDF.
• "Types of Viruses and Types of Viral Infections - Treating Human Viruses Naturally." Native Remedies® – Natural Health Remedies | Info on ADD ADHD to UTI & More. Web. 19 Jan. 2012. <http://www.nativeremedies.com/ailment/types-of-viral-infections.html>.
• Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story. 1st ed. Anchor. Print.

Service Learning

• Where are you working for your service learning? I will be working in Western University in Pomona.
• Who is your contact? Ellen Collisson, Ph.D.Professor, at Western University.
• Summarize the services you have performed to complete the 10 hour requirement- So far I haven't done my 10 hours, because Ellen, just accepted me to do service learning with her, but in the future she wants me to prepare a 2 hour spanish presentation on a San Berdandino community about how to care for your chickens against Corona Avian Influenza. I would also be doing reading her manuscripts and helping her with lab work.
• How many hours have you worked?- So far none, but I talked to her for an hour, in her office.

Third Interview Questions

1. 1.    What is the most important thing to know in the diagnosis of infectious disease?
   2.    Would you say that the medical history plays an important role in the diagnosis? Why not?
   3.  What do you think that makes infectious diseases much more rampant now?
   4.  What is one significant disease that has effect the world significantly?
   5.   What is one thing that people should worry about to prevent the next pandemic?
   6.  Do you have a favorite disease?
   7. Why did you go into Virology?
   8. Why do you like to work with Zootonic diseases?
   9. How would you define Infectious Disease?
   10. What classes do you teach at Western University?