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Cute, Dangerous Or Both? [ABCDE] VOLUME 5, ISSUE 6 Cute, Dangerous or Both? ASSOCIATED PRESS Newborn chicks, at a poultry farm in Burgos, northern Spain, might someday be carriers of a disease called bird flu. INSIDE Cause Assessing the Resurrecting $1 Billion 6 for Concern 8 Bird Flu 13 1918 Flu 20 Award July 1, 2006 © 2006 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY VOLUME 5, ISSUE 5 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program Endemic, Epidemic or Pandemic? Health Watch Lesson: As individuals, companies, • Seasonal (or common) flu kills www.who.int/csr/disease/influenza/ health officials and governments thousands each year. It can be pandemic/en/ confront an outbreak of mumps transmitted person to person, but Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response and a potential virulent spread most people have some immunity (EPR) of the avian flu, students can to it and a vaccine is available. World Health Organization provides explore public health, privacy • The influenza viruses that cause background and preparedness plans, rights and economic decisions. avian (or bird) flu occur naturally including the WHO global influenza The concerns about avian flu among wild birds. The H5N1 preparedness plan. Latest information on also provide opportunity to teach variant is deadly to domestic situation in countries around the globe. students about the Spanish Flu that fowl and can be transmitted from killed more than 50 million people birds to humans. There is no www.pandemicflu.gov/ around the world and to introduce human immunity and no vaccine PandemicFlu.gov students to careers in virology and is available. U.S. government avian and pandemic flu epidemiology. • Pandemic flu is virulent human information, press releases, issues and Level: Low to high flu that causes a global outbreak monitoring, including maps and travel Subjects: Health, English, Language of serious illness. Because there information. Review the “School Planning” arts, History is little natural immunity, the section. Information on the National Vaccine Related Activity: Business, disease can spread easily from Program also found on the U.S. Department Economics person to person. Currently, there of Health & Human Services Web site. is no pandemic flu. Many health issues provide www.cdc.gov stimulus for lessons in economics, Explain Bird Flu Centers for Disease Control and Prevention privacy vs. public health concerns, A May 2006 KidsPost article and Up-to-date information on influenza, mumps illegal vs. legal transport of goods sidebar provide the basics. Give and health and safety topics. Learn about and medicines, laws and ethics. students “Cause for Concern” and the National Immunization Program, get This guide focuses on the current “Worldwide Scares.” local and international travel information news: an outbreak of mumps in The excerpt from the Sunday and collect data and statistics. the Midwest and the spread of the Magazine article, “Can We Stop H5N1 strain of the influenza virus. the Next Killer Flu?” by Joel www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/ The following activities suggest Achenbach provides a more in- EmergencyPlanning/PandemicFlu/fs/en the range of approaches that can depth understanding of the avian flu Pandemic Flu be taken using Washington Post and the work of scientists. Visit the United Kingdom Department of news articles, features, graphics and What are the symptoms of having Health Web site. Travellers advice, pandemic commentary. the common flu? How do they contingency plan and command paper. compare and contrast with the Define the Terms symptoms of having the mumps? www.fao.org/ag/againfo/subjects/en/ Use the etymologies of health/diseases-cards/special_avian.html “outbreak,” “endemic,” “epidemic” Get Graphic Animal Health/Avian Influenza and “pandemic” to form a Graphics from The Post are FAO (WHO Food and Agriculture foundation for discussion of current provided. “Assessing Bird Flu” Organization) Animal Production and health issues. Give students “What provides a world map where H5N1 Health Division bulletins, disease card, Do We Call This?” In addition to has been detected and a bar graph videos, safety measures, scientific reports. clarifying the definitions, you may representing the human toll. “How wish to discuss the connotations Does Bird Flu Spread?” presents www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/pandemic- that are attached to each term. a graphic of wild bird flyways as influenza.html For a little perspective, we provide well as ways to stop the spread of National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza this summary of information Homeland Security provides strategy presented at PandemicFlu.gov: pillars: Preparedness and Communication, CONTINUED ON paGE 3 Surveillance and Detection, Response and Containment. 2 June 1, 2006 © 2006 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY VOLUME 5, ISSUE 5 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program CONTINUED FROM paGE 2 million individuals in America and In the Media the world from late 1918 to spring flu among birds and to contain a 1919. Why would scientists want www.washingtonpost.com/wp- human pandemic. to revive this virus? Post writer dyn/content/linkset/2005/10/17/ Give students “Global Graphics.” David Brown states, “It may also LI2005101700979.html Questions require that they prove to be unusually useful — not Focus on Bird Flu respond to the map, bar graph and an elaborate biological parlor Post Special Report: The latest information presented. trick, but a vital service to global developments in U.S. and the world, public health.” Give students archived articles, maps and graphics, quick Meet the Scientists “Resurrecting 1918 Flu Virus Took facts and key stories. Meet Jeffery Taubenberger, from Many Turns.” his high school science project in In addition to learning about www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?sto Fairfax County to cutting edge the Spanish Flu, students will ryId=4949542&sourceCode=gaw research at the Armed Forces appreciate the work of different Health Officials Keep Close Watch on Bird Flu Institute of Pathology, and other scientists, building on the work The latest global information, news, scientists at work in an excerpt of previous scientists and using interviews and historic perspective in the from the Sunday Magazine different approaches to reach a goal. collection of features. article, “Can We Stop the Next This is also a lesson in the use of Killer Flu?” by Joel Achenbach. technology to benefit mankind. www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/ Gain perspective and appreciation Influenza 1918 for the study that has gone from Compare Approaches “… the worst epidemic the United States observation and microscopes to How are influenza, avian flu, has ever known” from a PBS American electron microscopes and the 3132 mumps and other contagious Experience program. Maps, graphs, program Genetic Analyzer. diseases affecting other countries? transcript, interviews, bibliography and “Changes Cited in Bird Flu Virus” Read the articles and graphs in this teacher’s guide. by David Brown can be found online guide to learn what has happened in Special Reports in the Health in 2005 and early 2006. Review www.washingtonpost.com/wp- section (www.washingtonpost. current issues of The Post for dyn/content/linkset/2005/10/11/ com/health). This Oct. 6, 2005, more recent coverage of health LI2005101001030.html article provides background on the concerns. Then review other news Flu Basics avian flu and the scientists’ study of sources online to compare how Post Health section Special Report on mutations in its structure. health concerns are covered. What vaccines, symptoms and treatment of additional health information can influenza. Replicate the Spanish Flu you gain about other parts of the This part of America’s history is world by reading their “local” news www.newseum.org often overlooked in history classes. online? Newseum The Influenza of 1918 followed the Daily new pages from across the U.S. and routes of trade and human travel. A Connect the Dots around the world severe outbreak in Spain gave it the How does illness spread and name Spanish Flu, but early in 1918 become an epidemic or pandemic? in military camps in Kansas the flu Review the maps and wild bird had already made its appearance. flyways in “Assessing Bird Flu.” No steps were taken in spring to Do any of these coincide with the face the spread of flu as those who presence of the H5N1 strain? survived entered battlefields in Using a map of the United Europe and many soldiers began to States, mark where the outbreak die in Massachusetts. As the war of mumps has been reported. From ended, in some areas more had died early cases in the Midwest how of flu than bullets. has the virus spread? Is there a The Spanish Flu was responsible for the death of more than 40 CONTINUED ON paGE 4 3 June 1, 2006 © 2006 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY VOLUME 5, ISSUE 5 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program CONTINUED FROM paGE 3 • Who is going to benefit from Vocabulary this contract? Impact on people pattern? After reviewing the map getting the drugs, the companies Contagious: Capable of transmitting by and reading articles about the developing the vaccines? direct or indirect contact; carrying a outbreak of mumps, can students • Upon whom will this vaccine be disease make a connection between the tested for its efficacy? viruses being spread via migration • Would this be a good time to Contaminate: To make unclean or impure patterns of people (flying around invest in one of the companies by contact or mixing the country and world) and birds that received this contract? carrying the H5N1 virus with their The Post reported that federal Health: State of complete physical, own migration patterns as well as health officials want airlines tainted meat being sent around the to collect personal information mental and social well-being; not merely world? about domestic and international the absence of disease or infirmity The World Health Organization, passengers to help track potential (WHO Constitution) the public health division of the epidemics.
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