APS410 Questions About Disease, Part II

 

 

1. Describe malaria, both the disease itself and also how we get it. Why is malaria so hard to wipe out?

 

 

 

 

 

2. Medically, why has the HIV (AIDS) virus been so darn hard to cure? (See pp. 193-196 in the book.)

 

 

 

 

 

3. How do we currently treat AIDS now?

 

 

 

 

 

4. Describe "the Plague." Where does it come from? What does it do to us?

 

 

 

 

 

5. Why can't we just give everybody in the United States toxoids that render us immune to botulism toxin? (See p. 232.)

 

 

 

 

 

6. The book mentions three known attempted cases in which bioweapons were used: the Aum Shinrikyo case in Tokyo, the Rajneesh case in Oregon, and the anthrax mailing case.
1. Describe each of these cases.
2. Based on these cases, do thing that germ warfare is an effective "weapon of mass destruction"? Why or why not?