Answer 2

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

1. Vaccination records produce evidence in which diseases are not infecting the patient, but vaccination can also provide insight in which diseases may be infecting the patient this is a key role in the diagnosis of infectious diseases, and can narrow down the possible diseases.  

    

2. When doing my Independent Component, the main prevention of infectious diseases is vaccination.

      -In a New York Times article, I've seen that parents are not vaccinating their children anymore, and that doctors are urging to stop that trend, since it may make the children sicker in the future when they are older.

      - Vaccination records are used to see if a kid has been vaccinated against certain diseases, so it can rule out diseases when diagnosing an infectious diseases. Since most vaccinations are for infectious diseases, it makes sense that a vaccination record helps in the diagnosis.

3. Pieces of evidence are

1. Independent Component 1- Disease Spectrum
2. STEINHAUER, JENNIFER. "Public Health Risk Seen as Parents Reject Vaccines." The New York Times. The New York Times, 21 Mar. 2008. Web. 16 Mar. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21vaccine.html>.'
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Web. 16 Mar. 2012. <http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/howvpd.htm>.

The Product

Since I have started my service learning in Western University, with Dr. Ellen Collisson, I have been able to narrow down what I want to do after graduate school. Dr. Collisson, researches different infectious zoonitic diseases,  and I want to do that as my future job. I have also started eating chicken less, and cooking the meat fully. In my service learning I present to a group of people about the Avian Influenza. Another product from my service learning is, that I obtained a job that is secured in Western University, and I have also created really good relations with the people at Western University. Since I have become more comfortable with talking to professionals about microbiology, I can now talk to them, without feeling uneducated.

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

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.