Standard 10: Organisms have a variety of mechanisms to combat disease. As a basis for under-standing the human immune response: 10a: The role of the skin in providing nonspecific defenses against infection. 10b: The role of antibodies in the body's response to infection. 10c: Know how vaccination protects an individual from infectious diseases. 10d: There are important differences between bacteria and viruses with respect to their requirements for growth and replication, the body's primary defenses against bacterial and viral infections, and effective treatments of these infections. 10e: Students know why an individual with a compromised immune system (for example, a person with AIDS) may be unable to fight off and survive infections by microorganisms that are usually benign. California Standards for Biology
National Institute of Allergy and Infection - Home page http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/
NIH - Great background about the immune system http://www.lupusresearchinstitute.org/downloads/immune.pdf
Center for Disease Control (CDC) - Information about Bird Flu http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/
How do Allergies work? http://health.howstuffworks.com/allergy.htm
How bacteria become resistant to antibiotics - good background with an excellent narrated animation! http://www.sumanasinc.com/scienceinfocus/sif_antibiotics.html
From the CDC: Emerging Infectious Diseases - important articles and background material. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm
Bird Flu: Up-to-Date Infromation From the CDC http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/
CDC - Informaiton about all possible infectious diseases, Alphabeticlaly listed http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/index.htm#a
Good table of viruses - their shapes and sizes (From School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis) http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/viruses/VirusDiagram.html
Watch the videoclip about infectious diseases (associated with the 'cause of death' quiz'), including transcript http://science-education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/diseases/activities/activity1.htm
Immune response - short animation http://health.howstuffworks.com/adam-200095.htm
Facts about the Avian Flu (October 2005) from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/
Body temperature (fever) and the flu - how does it work? http://science.howstuffworks.com/question45.htm
Resistance to Antibiotics - from CDC E:\Documents and Settings\Michal\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK28\Frequently Asked Questions CDC Get Smart.htm
Inflammation - From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation
1918 Flu Video from PBS http://www.pbs.org/video/video/995676466/chapter/2/search/1918
Influenza infection: A detailed animation of the penteration of the virus through the host's cell membrane. http://cbm.msoe.edu/includes/swf/HAAnimation.swf
A simulation of viral infection - high quality, realistic steps of infection inside the cell. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114093727