Outbreak

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Outbreak - Topics for discussions:

Minutes (in the movie)
Topic
Discussion
4
 Bombing as a mean to disinfect
 Ethical and biological
7
 How do you disinfect when dealing with a virus?
 Structure, what “kills” viruses
17
 The virus in animals
 The ecological balance – disease transfer from humans to animals and vs.
20
 A rapid action
 Why a fast-replicating and lethal virus is “beneficial”
25
 Viruses in cells
 How do virus replicate?
26
 Virus structure
 What is the structure of a virus?
28
 Virus comparison
 How fast (and why) viruses mutate?
29
 Viral transmission
 How do you define pathogens transmission
30
 The genetic information
 “New solutions to old problem”
50
 Airborne virus
 Not only viruses are airborne
67
 The decision to bomb the town
 Ethical and scientific debate
73
 The recovery of the monkey
 Treatment with antibodies?
86
 How did Betsy survived
 Natural immunity


Questions:
Choose one question and discuss:
  1. What are antibodies? Please make sure to include the following information:
- What are antibodies made of?
- Which cells produce antibodies?
- Why do we make antibodies?
- How do antibodies work?
- How do we use antibodies to identify blood groups (we did it last year in the lab)?
- Do all people have antibodies?
- Do antibodies stay in your body fro life?

  1. What is immunization?
- What is active immunization?
- What is passive immunization?
- How often do we have to immunize and why?
- How do we make vaccines?

  1. What is sequencing?
- What do we learn when we sequence a genome?
- Why is it helpful?
- What is the technology we use for sequencing?
- How can we create vaccines if we know the sequence of a virus?