Epidemics DBQ

 

Directions:

 

Read each document and, on a separate sheet of paper answer the corresponding question(s) in complete sentences.

 

Article 1: http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/bugl/histepi.htm

 

 

1.Answer the following question(s):

What is an epidemic? What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?

 

2.Answer the following question(s):

How are common source epidemics resolved? Why are host to host epidemics more likely to become pandemic?

3.Answer the following question(s):

Which species seems to be most responsible for epidemics? What characteristics of the species make them more at risk for host-to-host diseases and epidemics?

 

 

Article 2: http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm

 

4. Answer the following questions(s):

 

If you had to speculate, based on the chart above, what could you say about the HIV pandemic?

 

http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm

 

Article 3:

    www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza

5. Answer the following question(s):

What evidence suggests that the flu epidemic of 1918 was a host to host epidemic? What could the government departments of health have done to prevent the spread of the flu? 

 

 

After completing the articles and questions, use the documents and your knowledge to answer the following question in proper ELA format on your paper. Justify your answer with specifics from the articles. (6 sentence minimum)

 

In your opinion, what makes epidemics and pandemics so “scary” for humans?