Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is the most important thing in diagnosing an infectious disease?
2. What makes an infectious disease in your own words?
3. What disease in your mind poses a huge threat to humanity right now and why?
4. Vaccination plays a huge role in prevention of infectious diseases, why do you think people don't take that precaution?
5. Besides vaccination what is another huge role in prevention of infectious disease and why?
6. How does infectious diseases effect different age groups?
7. What about environment and social class?
8. Does educating the public of personal hygiene help prevent infectious diseases?
9. Fear plays a huge role, which right now has led to an overuse of bleach and antibacterial products. Antibacterial products cause some bacteria's to become “immune” to it. Would public education to prevent this help any way to prevent drug resistant bacterial strains?
10. What are main jobs that people go into to study infectious diseases?
11. I was told that zoonotic diseases are a huge role in infectious diseases would you agree or disagree to this? Why?
12. Sexual relationships are more open, now in my generation, would this cause a rise in STD's, compared to other generations?
13. Do you think that STD's considered infectious diseases?
14. What else would cause infectious diseases to become more “infectious'? Explain.
15. Do you think the government is doing enough to inform the public about infectious diseases?
16. What interested you so much in this subject?
17. Would you say the job force or study in Microbiology is on a rise? Why?
18. What other sciences are essential to Microbiology?
19. Do you think the symptoms of Infectious diseases differ from non-infectious diseases?
20. What is the most important way to diagnose any disease?
21. What are the different ways to diagnose any disease?

Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

1. For my Independent Component 2, I want to take a class at Cal-Poly that has to do with the science of Infectious Diseases. Right now I am looking at an Animal Diseases class, a Basic Biology class, or a Biology Lab class. 
2. I plan on doing my 30 hours, by attending the class and doing the work that is assigned in that class.
3. This relates to my EQ because my first answer is knowledge, and in the class I will learn in depth of what happens in the basics of life. I will then have knowledge in the basic components of diseases.

Independent Component 1

Literal 
       a.) I, Victoria Montoya, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
       b.) I researched 20 different infectious diseases, and wrote up my own fact sheets on them. On each fact sheet, I included a picture, the causes, the name, symptoms, complications, tests, and prevention towards getting the disease.

Interpretive

•  Doing this matrix of diseases, I focused on bacterial vs viral. What I found very significant, is that vaccination plays a huge role against infectious diseases. A lot of disease are easily preventable, its just that people do not take the right precautions like vaccination and eating foods that have been cooked thoroughly or making sure water is treated correctly. I also noticed that most of the infectious disease are zoonotic diseases, meaning that they mutated in order to infect humans. When I asked Dr. Collisson, what makes infectious disease so much more rampant now, she answered that it is because animals and humans live in such close quarters now, that it makes it easier for diseases to mutated. With my independent component I found evidence of this. A lot of diseases that originated from Africa tend to happen because of the close proximity with animals. My independent component identifies 30 hours because, I had to write each fact sheet, which took about an hour, I then had to go through websites and decided what information is relevant, and if the website I am pulling information from is credible. After finding the right source, I would print out the articles and margin note it for my Working Bibliography.  Each of the diseases took about an hour and thirty minutes, and putting it a portfolio, took about an hour.

Applied

• This helped answer my EQ, because if most of the disease are preventable by vaccination, then the vaccination history can play a big role in diagnosing an infectious disease. For example, Influenza is easily preventable by vaccination, many people go to the doctor anyways, and get a prescription for over-the-counter medication. But if someone were to go, and had already gotten their vaccination, the Influenza is already ruled out and can be decided to go towards a different path in diagnosing a disease. With my Independent Component, I also learned that testing and diagnosis point chart, play a huge role in diagnosing. The point method I found very interesting because each symptom values to a certain amount of points, if the points add up to a certain amount, that is the path of treatment the doctors take.

20 Minute Infectious Disease Lesson

20 Minute Lesson