Fighting Infectious Diseases

Eeeew, gross! Diseases are everywhere these days. Your job is to first read the above websites to find out more about the chain of infection. What you will need to do is to find and create your own version of the chain of infection. In your chain, make sure that they have each step listed and also provide an example for each step. After you complete the cart, you will write a paragraph describing several ways in which the chain of infection can be broken. Once you are finished, print out the assignment and hand it in.

Only one class period will be set aside for the completion of this assignment. If you are unable to finish the webquest in the period, you may finish it at home, if you have a home computer, and bring it the next class meeting. Each student will work by him or herself to complete the assignment.

Your task, if you are brave enough to accept is to visit five websites and expand your knowledge of infectious diseases. First, visit this website to give yourself a general understanding of infectious diseases.

http://aids.about.com/od/expertadvice/a/infection.htm

Once you understand the back ground of infectious diseases, visit these two websites to gain a better of understanding of the exact steps for the chain of infection disease. Make sure you pay careful attention to this site and are able to list each step of the chain.

http://faculty.ccc.edu/tr-infectioncontrol/chain.htm

www.cte.unt.edu/health/curriculum/Chain_of_Infection.ppt

Now that you have read about the chain of infectious diseases, here is your task. On a piece of paper, you need to draw the chain for passing an infectious disease. Make sure you include each link of the chain in the correct order. The picture doesn’t have to be pretty or artistic, but do your best to make it big and neat.

After you have created your own chain, you need to come up with an example for each link. In order to do this you may have to revisit the two websites for this section.

After you recreate the chain and list an example for each link, you can move on to learn about how to break the chain.

Now that you better understand infectious diseases and how they are transmitted, read these two websites to learn how to break the chain of infection.

http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/articles/271feat3.html

http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/

Alright, earlier you created a chain of infection on your paper and listed examples, but now you know how you can break the chain and keep from getting sick. To complete this assignment, you need to write 3-5 sentences on your paper how you can break the chain of infection for the examples you listed earlier. All of this showed be done on one piece of paper. When you are done with your write-up, hand in the assignment to the teacher because you are finished.

If you complete this task and finish the assignment you win the gold medal for cleanliness.