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Dreaded Diseases
Malaria
AIDS
Virus
Vocabulary Terms
• Pandemic: a phenomenon, such as a disease,
that is widespread & occurs over a vast
geographic area.
• Epidemic: diseases which spread quickly &
become widely prevalent throughout a given
area.
• Endemic: diseases which are prevalent only in
a particular area or group of people
• Famine: severe shortage of food
• Genocide: systematic, planned annihilation of a
racial, political, or cultural group.
HIV/AIDS
• Kill more Africans
than any other
diseases other than
malaria.
• HIV (human
immunodeficiency
virus) or AIDS
(Acquired
Immunodeficiency
Syndrome
• 70 % of Sub-Saharan
Africa are infected
w/AIDS or HIV-positive
Malaria
• 90% of the world’s
malaria cases are in
Africa.
• 50% of Africa’s
population has had
malaria at any one
time.
• Curable through
medications.
River Blindness
• Caused by a
parasitic worm
transmitted from one
person to another by
the black fly.
• Invades skin & eyes,
causing extreme
itching and
blindness.
• Can be prevented
from a drug..
Sleeping
Sickness
• 36 out of 55 countries
carry this disease.
• Transmitted to humans &
animals when bitten by
an infected tsetse fly.
• Infection spreads to every
organ in the body.
• Suffer from excruciating
pain, fever, insomnia, & a
sleep-like
unconsciousness.
• Treated through
medication.
Schistosomiasis
• Waterborne
disease.
• People are infected
when they come in
contact w/larvae
carried by snails in
infested water.
• Only rarely causes
death.
Guinea Worm
• Transmitted by drinking
contaminated water.
• Copepods carry larval parasites
in the water.
• Female worm comes to the
surface & forms a blister.
• It comes in contact w/water,
bursts & more larval parasites
are released.
• Takes weeks or months to pull
the adult worm out, which is
done by wrapping it around a
stick.
• Painful & can cause permanent
disability.
• Use a cloth fiber to catch the
copepod vectors in the water.
Question- In your ISN write a ten
sentence paragraph answering the
following question from yesterday’s
lesson.
How do poor health care
systems, poverty, ignorance of
diseases and causes, as well
as government organization,
impact the standard of living in
parts of Africa?