BIOL 3340 - Public Health Microbiology

3 Credit(s)

In this course we will review some of the historical highlights of human and microbe interactions in health and disease from food production and preservation, to the development of the concept of contagion and the global impact of infectious disease in human history (smallpox, plague, cholera, malaria, typhus, influenza, tuberculosis, polio, AIDS, Ebola etc.). We will look at the driving forces behind the development of public health projects as a product of the industrial revolution (drinking water quality, waste treatment, industrial food production and delivery from the farm to the table). The discovery, development and widespread use and misuse of antimicrobials and their impact on the maintenance and treatment of human health and disease. The role of vaccines in the maintenance of human health primarily by prevention of disease will also be discussed.

Selective
Advance biology selective.
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 3240 with a C- or better.