History of Infectoius Diseases

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Topic

Epidemics of infectious diseases have always played a role in human history. The students can get an inside view of those infectious diseases, wich play an important role in our days. In spite of global efforts to decrease their mortality rates, some of these ancient diseases are still the deadliest in the world. Nowadays the threats of a bioterrorism attack is a real fear of mankind, because the technology to produce and use dangerous biological agents is potentially available. The effective fight against these attacks and infectious diseases means a significant challenge in the public health. Finally, in this course meet some of the people who developed the tools to identify microorganisms, the preventive measures and the vaccinations to prevent them, and the drugs to treat them.

Lectures

• 1. Tropical illnesses 1. (Malaria) - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 2. Tropical illnesses 2. (Yellow Fever) - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 3. Tropical illnesses 3. (Asiatic cholera) - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 4. Influenza - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 5. HIV/AIDS - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 6. Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 7. Epidemics and Wars I. - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 8. Bioterorrism - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 9. Discovery of Vaccination - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 10. Discovery of Antibiotics - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 11. Gallery of portraits (Famous Scientists and their Discoveries) - Bőszné Murányi Edit
• 12. Infectious diseases - past, present and future - Bőszné Murányi Edit

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