This page contains links to background research articles to help you become familiar with your zoonotic disease before reading scientific articles about it. To find scholarly articles visit the "Scientific Journal Articles" tab.
Databases
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Zoonotic Disease Project
Zoonotic diseases are those that can spread between humans and other animals, mostly vertebrates. In this project, you will use a comparative zoology lens to understand the process of Zoonosis.
For this project, you will first research the disease. Then you will write a one page briefing document that addresses the questions below. Finally, you will give a 5 minute briefing to the class.
Your paper must accomplish the following tasks:
1) Describe the disease and its clinical history
2) Describe which vertebrates also manifest and spread the disease
3) Compare the immune system of the vertebrates that carry the disease with a human immune system (you need not go in more depth on immunity that you did last year in 11th grade).