Cholera Overview

WALT: Use evidence from text and media to develop a claim

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Transmission
Review

Multiple Choice

When a pathogen is moved from person to person through physical touch (kissing, hugging, close-up sneezing, shaking hands).

• Transmission

• Translation

• Emission

• Direct Contact

• Indirect Contact

Multiple Choice

Pathogens spread from person to person by objects (chairs, medical equipment, office supplies, doorknobs, etc.)

• Direct Contact

• Indirect Contact

• Airborne Transmission

• Foodborne Tranmission

• Vector-Borne Transmission

Multiple Select

You're eating at a restaurant and the chicken was not cooked all the way through. 2 hours later you are sick. This is an example of:

• Contact

• Airborne

• Food borne

• Virusborne

Multiple Select

Select all the routes of airborne transmission...

• Coughing

• Sneezing

• Kissing

• Spitting

Multiple Choice

_________________ are bacteria, viruses, or micro organisms that can cause disease.

• Pathogens

• Things

• Sickness

• Illnesses

Multiple Choice

A disease that is locally spread in a community

• Pandemic

• Epidemic

• Outbreak

Multiple Choice

Disease spreading in a community and in neighboring places around different countries

• Epidemic

• Pandemic

• Outbreak

Anchor Phenomenon:
The number of deaths from infectious diseases is increasing globally. Why, after decades of declining deaths from infectious disease, have we seen a resurgence of outbreaks? How can we prevent future outbreaks?

English

Spanish

Chinese Subtitles

​Watch the video below about a boy whose father had Cholera. While watching, write down any questions that you have in your packet.

Multiple Choice

What symptom did the narrator's father show that indicated he had cholera?

• Diarrhea that looked like rainwater

• High fever

• Coughing

• Headache

Multiple Choice

How did the villagers make the water safe to drink?

• By adding sugar

• By letting it sit overnight

• By freezing it

• By filtering through cloth and boiling it

Multiple Choice

What was added to the safe water to help the narrator's father recover?

• Three teaspoons of honey

• A pinch of pepper

• Half a teaspoon of salt and six teaspoons of sugar

• Two teaspoons of vinegar

Multiple Choice

What did the narrator advise a girl about making water safe?

• To boil the water for 10 minutes

• To add chlorine drops and wait half an hour

• To filter the water through sand

• To expose the water to sunlight

Multiple Choice

What did the narrator tell a man about eating with unclean hands?

• To wash hands only in cold water

• To wipe his hands on his clothes

• To always wash his hands with soap and safe water after going to the toilet

• To use a sanitizer

Multiple Choice

What practices did the narrator promote to prevent cholera in the village?

• Using latrines far from the river, washing hands, and keeping food safe from flies

• Ignoring the cleanliness of water

• Eating food without washing it

• Drinking river water directly