Crash Course Outbreak Science

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What Is Outbreak Science?
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Infectious disease has affected the human species for as long as we’ve existed, but in that time we’ve come a long way in understanding what they are and how they spread. In this episode .. show full overview
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How Do Outbreaks Start?
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You may not realize it, but your body is like a fortress, designed to defend you from tiny foreign invaders known as pathogens. This seemingly small world is actually super diverse, and .. show full overview
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Why Do We Have Fewer Outbreaks? Epidemiological Transition
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We take it for granted that society gets better at tackling infectious disease over time, but when you really think about it the progress we’ve made in the last century is pretty .. show full overview
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Why Do Outbreaks Affect People Unequally?
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We’re all susceptible to infectious disease of some kind or other, but not everyone is equally likely to be the victim of an outbreak. The fact is, inequalities both between and within .. show full overview
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The Weaponization of Outbreaks
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A sad reality that we have to face when studying outbreak science is that sometimes groups of people use outbreaks intentionally to inflict harm on another group. We call this .. show full overview
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How Do We Know We're Sick?
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Sometimes, diagnosing patients is pretty easy, but other times... not so much. Luckily, in a medical setting we have tools that can help us figure out what's wrong with patients, and how .. show full overview
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How Does the Healthcare System Work During Outbreaks?
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Day to day, hospitals provide all kinds of services to help us get better and stay healthy, but during an outbreak, hospitals are the front line of the emergency. In this episode of .. show full overview
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How Do We Investigate Outbreaks? Epidemiology
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At the heart of outbreaks are people! People are the ones who get sick, transmit diseases, and change the way they live in response to outbreaks. In outbreak science, we can better .. show full overview
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Can We Predict An Outbreak's Future? - Modeling
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When outbreaks happen, we need to be able to predict the course they’ll take in the future, but of course we can’t run experiments on real people to figure that out. Thankfully we can .. show full overview
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How Does Public Health Tackle Outbreaks?
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Public health activities are all the ways society coordinates to deliver better health to people. That may sound super broad, and it is, so in this episode of Crash Course Outbreak .. show full overview
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How Can Cooperation End an Outbreak?
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In 1959, the WHO set out to eradicate smallpox, an ambitious goal that was achieved by 1980. But this goal wouldn't have been possible without coordination on all levels of society. In .. show full overview
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How Can Infrastructure Help Us Stop Outbreaks?
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When you think about the technology that helps us prevent outbreaks, what do you think of? Vaccines? Lab tests? Medications? What about toilets? That's right! Toilets are an important .. show full overview
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What Is Outbreak Culture?
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When we think of how we respond to outbreaks, we often think of physical things like vaccines or medicines, but there is another factor that is just as critical to understand: culture! .. show full overview
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How do Outbreaks End? Vaccines and Recovery
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Throughout this series, and in our real lives, we've seen the chaos and devastation that outbreaks can cause. But there's good news! Eventually, outbreaks come to an end. In this .. show full overview
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How Are We All Part of Ending Outbreaks?
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Over the course of this series, we've seen that outbreak science is actually MANY sciences, including biology, epidemiology, sociology, and even economics! Because outbreak science is an .. show full overview