Disease transmission
In 100-200 succinct, proofed words, address the following question. Be sure to add something new to the discussion.
What are the implications (social, economic, scientific, medical, or national, etc.) for the results from the transmission of body fluids activities?
posted by Frank LaBanca, EdD @ 7:57 AM
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AIDS is a very common disease in the US and all over the world. When people are transmitted with the AIDS disease, this can really have a great affect on your life. This taught our class, how quickly AIDS can spread, from one person to another. We learned also, that AIDS can only be spread by a blood or body fluid disease. This experiment also showed us that it is very hard to find the host of the AIDS, because so many people switched fluids with others, that you did not know where it started. This was an interesting lab, and I really enjoyed learning about it.
Across the Unites States, students are being taught about AIDS and AIDS awareness. When this activity was performed in class, it taught the class about how easily AIDS is spread. It was hard to find the carrier of this disease and the class still has not figured it out. This class activity is a great learning tool to teach teens about AIDS. From a social perspective, AIDS is a major disease that everyone should be aware of. It is a great example to show young people the dangers of being careless and not protecting themselves. As a nation, there are millions of people with this disease, and many who do not even know that they have AIDS. This experiment was really helpful in teaching the dangers of AIDS and showing how quickly it can spread, especially when you are un aware you have this disease.
If there were a disease that could change the way people lived in many ways it would cause a huge problem. If the disease became airborne than it could easily affect people at all different areas if the disease was not contained early. Also the affect of the disease may be deadly and harm or kill many people. Nationally the disease could cause a panic of everyone, which would just make everything worse by causing hue commotions everywhere and people blaming others left and right. This lab was a lot of fun but the real scientist that must figure out who the original carrier was must have an extremely difficult job.
This lab was very fun to do. However it taught the class that because of one person very many other people can be infected with this disease. I learned that it is a very hard job for a scientist to discover who the host was of this disease using other people. It also taught me that, like in class when the host was never discovered, that in real life people may never find where it started. Like Tina said this lab was very insightful in the AID awarness. It taught myself and the class how careful one person must be while being sexually active.
An activity such as this in which students are instructed to expose their own body liquids to those of other students, is a great example of what goes on in the real world. In everyday life people have to solve the mysteries of disease transmission just as the class did to investigate the results of the activity. A person who has been infected with a disease that is transmitted through body fluids has to carefully investigate every single person they have ever exposed themselves to or who they have come in contact with. While the class struggled to figure out who the host was, each individual student struggled to remember who they had shared fluids with and in what order. That aspect of the activity in itself was a prime example of the difficulties in understanding how people get diseases and the importance of being careful and fully aware of whom you are involved with.
In order to prevent diseases from spreading, one needs to have the knowledge about diseases and how they are transmitted. When the activity was being performed everyone was frantic trying to figure out who mixed fluids with who and whose test tube changed color first. It is a perfect example of what happens in the real world. If you "mix" with one person then you "mix" with everyone that they have. It shows that more serious matters such as AIDS and other STD’s and diseases take place outside the class room and all over the world. It was a good lesson because everyone got to work together and uncover the mystery of who was "infected first.” It was hard to imagine how people really track down where a disease comes from. Doing that for a profession must be a tough job!
It is amazing how fast diseases can spread, and how many people they can affect, even in a limited amount of time. This experiment really showed just how uncontrollable and confusing diseases can be when spread from one person to another. During this experiment, people were so unsure of who could have possibly started spreading the disease and who they “mixed” with. In real life, that could be a huge problem because if no one can remember who they “mixed” with, no one will ever be completely sure of who started spreading the disease, and therefore, it may never stop. It really goes to show how easily lives can be affected just by coming into contact with another human being.
AIDs is a disease in which, students across the United States are being taught and warned about. By catching this disease it is a life altering affect, and by doing this activity in class, it helped teach the many unknown dangers of this disease, that many teens are unaware of. It shows the class how fast acting it is, and that all you need is one person in a group of people, or friends to start the spread. The activity also taught the class how dangerous it is because somebody can have the disease, and not even know it until they are tested by a doctor. This is a very good experiment to practice in classrooms, because it teaches kids how dangerous the disease is, and how big of an effect it can have on you, and it also teaches how you can prevent from getting such a dangerous disease.
The activity that we had to do in the class was a good example on what can happen in the real world today. When we first got the test tubes everyone wanted to find out who the host was for the ‘disease’. It was a difficult process of figuring out who mixed with who and we had to backtrack to try and find the host. In real life this is how people can get STD’s and AIDS. If their ‘fluids’ mix with another person who has a disease then they get it. And on top of that they pass it on to whoever they come in contact with next as well. This activity was a good example of showing that who you come in contact with can affect you greatly.
This lab was very fun. The lab was that everybody recieved a test tube full of our "body fluids," amd one person had "AIDS" and nobody else did. We then were told to mix our fluids with other people across the room. This lab taught our class how AIDS can impact your daily life. It also showed us that it can be spread very easily. AIDS can be spread through body fluids or by blood. The host of the disease was very difficult to find also.
The body fluids activity really showed how fast and easily a disease could travel. When one person has it, they can spread it to 2 people, then each of those 2 people can spread it to 2 more people, and so on. And when it is a disease like AIDS, which is always changing, it will be hard to stop, and also hard to control, because people might not even know they have it, and then they will spread it to more unsuspecting people. Becayse of this many people will die and that is hard to prevent.
The AIDS lab was a good way of showing how AIDS is spread so fast. You need to be very carful and protect yourself or you can get AIDS very eisily. It also showed how hard it was to remember who you shared your fluids with and in what order you did. and it made you have an appreciation for the people that try to figure out things like that for thier jobs. If you dont remember who you shared with it would be very hard to figure out where it started, as it did in our class. We still dont know who was the carrier of AIDS was becasue none of us could remember who traded with who.
The lab that we did last friday was a good way to show how fast the AIDS virus can be spread and how it impacts so many people throughout the world. The lab taught us that AIDS can be transferred through body fluids and blood. It also showed us how hard it is to figure out who a person gets the virus from because we switched fluids with so many other people and it got confusing. If you were to get AIDS in reality, it would affect your social life because people would look at you differently knowing that you had AIDS.This lab was very interesting and I think it taught us a alot.
The lab that the class did on Friday was interesting and insightful. I agree with what missy said about the lab being a good way to show how fast AIDS spread and how it impacts so many people around the world. If people get tested for AIDS it would be just like an indicator so people would be aware if they had it or not. Like when (I think it was) Bob had "AIDS" and as soon as his solution turned red everyone knew he had "AIDS" and stayed away. When there wasn't an indicator, by the time the experiment ended almost everyone had "AIDS" and in real life the same thing is happening. I personally thought the lab was fun but a bit disorganized because when it became time to find the origin of the virus, nobody could remember who they traded with . Other than that the lab was very insightful and I hope there are more labs like this in the future.
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