Transcript Introduction

What Kind of Infectious
Disease Are You?
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Click here to take the Infectious
Disease Personality Quiz!
You get a brand new bicycle
that comes in pieces. How
would you put it together?
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Get your tools and put it together
yourself
Get someone to put it together for you
When it is cold out, how
do you like to keep
warm?
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Wear a thick sweater
Wear multiple layers
What neighborhood would
you rather live in?
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A cleaner neighborhood, even if it is a
little harder to get anywhere else
A dirty neighborhood but it is easier to
go to different places
How would you deliver an
important message to a person
inside a locked building?
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Open the letter and read it to them over
the phone
Break a window
How can you handle new
eating situations?
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You can enter any restaurant and eat
something without a problem
You usually can find something, but
some places are tough to eat at
Which is more important to
you?
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Good Food
Good Music
You are about to move into a
new house, but the people
before you haven’t moved out!
What do you do?
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Wait for them to leave
Go inside and kick them out
What would you do if you
get on a train and there are
no seats left?
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Wait for someone to get up at the next
stop
Get out of that train car and move to
another
How do you decide what
clothes to buy and wear?
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You like to have clothes that match the
current style
You like your style to be a little
different than the current style
Which situation would you
rather be in?
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Be able to go anywhere you want, but
you have to walk
Have a car, but you aren’t allowed to
leave the house very often
Which do you prefer
when you go out to eat?
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Check out new restaurants you have
never eaten at before
Go to your favorite restaurant as much
as possible
How would you get into a
party with a very exclusive
guest list?
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Make friends with the bouncer and get
him to let you in
Convince the bouncer that you are the
host’s friend (even though you aren’t)
You have a pile of make-up
work you have to do. Would
you rather…?
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Organize it all into one big stack before
you start
Get started on it right away and finish it
piece by piece
What would you do if you
needed to know an
important equation for a
math test tomorrow.
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Bring a cheat sheet that has it written
down
Memorize it tonight so you know it
tomorrow
Don’t worry about the equation. You
can figure out how to solve the
problem using a different method.
Are you an animal person or
a people person?
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Animal person
People person
You are Cholera!
• You are dirty by nature, as you
like to travel through untreated
water supplies before being
ingested by your host. Nobody
could consider you slow, as
your effects are quick and
powerful: your toxin causes
massive and frequently fatal
diarrhea. If someone were to
encounter you, they better
have a good supply of fluids,
because dehydration is their
biggest risk.
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You are Lyme Disease!
• You sure like to tick
people off! Once you
have a path opened up
by your host insect, you
are a bacteria that is very
hard to get rid of. You
also don’t discriminateyou cause a wide variety
of symptoms to a wide
variety of organs.
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You are Typhoid!
• Your fever will sure put
someone off their feet,
maybe even permanently!
You are a hearty bacteria
that can survive without a
host for weeks. Once you
are ingested, you go
straight into the cells of
multiple organs to
reproduce. The United
States has sanitized its
water enough to keep you
out, but you are still going
strong in other countries.
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You are E. Coli!
• You are the split
personality of bacteria!
Inside the colon, you are
very helpful to human
digestion. If you end up
anywhere else, watch
out! Your host will suffer a
painful week or two of
bloody diarrhea and
vomit. If this bleeding
goes unchecked, you
may find yourself looking
for a new host...
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You are Colitis! (clostridium difficile)
• You are the bacteria of
opportunity! Once you get
some help clearing those
pesky normal flora from
the large intestine, you
have the whole colon to
yourself. Two days later,
fever, cramps, bloody
stool, and dehydration will
make them wish they
never took their
antibiotics in the first
place.
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You are Anthrax!
• Welcome to the world of
bioterror! You may form spores
to live longer, but these spores
make you easy to use for
attack purposes. On the skin,
you cause boils. If swallowed,
you can cause fatal intestinal
problems. When inhaled, you
cause fatal respiratory
problems. Because of you,
international travelers will
forever have to designate if
they have recently been on a
farm or handled soil.
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You are Pneumococcus!
• People may want to hold their
breath whenever you pass by!
You cause a severe lung
infection that can pass through
the air from infected person to
person. 30% of the time you
even cross over to cause more
problems in the blood. Your
multilayered cell wall has
helped you resist more and
more antibiotics. Plenty of
reasons to get the kids and
grandma vaccinated!
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You are Adenovirus!
• You sure get around! You
are one of the most
common DNA viruses.
Because your receptors
aren’t very specific, pretty
much every kid gets an
infection from you
somewhere, whether it be
in the eyes, lungs, or
intestines. You should
take credit for the phrase
“treat the symptoms,”
because that’s all people
can do with you.
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You are Papillomavirus!
• Your hosts have a bumpy
road ahead of them,
literally! You are a DNA
virus that is so intent on
infecting epithelial cells
that you don’t have
receptors for anything
else. Your ability to move
freely from host to host
has made you quite
common. Humans can’t
stop you, they can only
hope to contain you!
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You are Herpes!
• No need to be embarassed.
You may be known for your
sexual nature, but sex isn’t all
you are about. You are a DNA
virus that fuses to your host
cells to get inside and
reproduce. The resulting sores
are physically and socially
uncomfortable. Your envelope
makes you better at getting out
and spreading, so the rest of
the world better hope your host
isn’t that interested in sharing
you.
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You are Poxvirus!
• Humans have made an
effort to wipe you off the
face of the earth, and with
good reason! You may
need close contact, but
you are highly
contagious. Once inside
the body, you trick cells
into taking you in as if you
were valuable to them.
On the contrary, you
cause horribly painful
lesions and many of your
forms almost certainly
spell death for your host.
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You are Rhinovirus!
• No, you don’t have a
large horn on your face!
You are the virus
responsible for the
common cold. Compared
to some of the bad boys
of the virus family, your
symptoms are pretty mild,
but that doesn’t matter to
you. You just keep
making polymerase and
reproducing. Let your
host worry about their
symptoms!
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You are Rabies!
• Try not to drool, but for
one strand of RNA you
sure pack a punch. When
your vector dog bites a
potential host, you pack
your RNA polymerase
and head for the brain. If
you reach your
destination without
treatment, you cause
dangerous swelling of the
brain, major behavior
changes, and usually
death!
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You are HIV!
• Unfortunately for the human
race, you may be the ultimate
virus. By attacking your host’s
defense cells, you eliminate
any chance of them clearing
you out. While your reverse
transcriptase makes DNA out
of your RNA code, you lie
dormant inside your host for
years, maximizing your
chances of transmission.
Eventually, you cause AIDS,
which will lead to your host’s
inability to fight other diseases.
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You are H1N1!
• Thanks to a reshuffling of
your RNA segments, you
are the newest influenza
virus to hit the scene! You
gave people reason to
worry about “flu-like
symptoms,” even causing
schools to close! Though
you may forever be linked
to the swine you made
company with, your hosts
will never forget the fever
you gave them!
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You are Measles!
• Children may cry when they
are vaccinated for you, but
they would cry even harder if
they had to deal with you
directly. Your symptoms start
fairly common, but then fever
spikes and a spotted rash
spreads. Humans may keep
developing vaccines to keep
you at bay, but don’t you worry!
Your segmented genome will
make it easier for you to
develop resistance.
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