Infectious Disease

Featured Infectious Disease Resources

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  Scientists at Work

  Virus Hunter: Monitoring Bat Populations

  In this video we follow scientists working in Bangladesh as they test fruit bat populations to determine whether they are infected with Nipah virus—a potentially deadly virus when passed on to humans.
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  Click & Learn

  Virus Explorer

  Explore the similarities and differences of a variety of viruses by sorting them based on structure, genomic make-up, host range, transmission mechanism, and vaccine availability.
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  Click & Learn

  The West Nile Virus Story

  West Nile virus infects mosquitoes, birds, and people—with very different consequences.
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  Click & Learn

  Stopping Mosquito-Borne Disease

  Learn about the nature of vector-borne diseases, and the life cycle of the dengue vector mosquito.
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  Click & Learn

  Cells of the Immune System

  An overview of the immune system, concentrating on lymphocytes and the antigen-presentation system.
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  Animations

  Antigen presentation and CTL

  Cytotoxic T cells kill an infected cell before the virus can replicate and spread.
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  Animations

  HIV life cycle

  How HIV infects a cell and replicates itself using reverse transcriptase and the host's cellular machinery.
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  Animations

  Malaria: Human Host

  Following a mosquito bite, the malaria parasite infects and attacks various types of cells in the human host.
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  Virtual Labs

  Immunology Virtual Lab

  Virtually perform an ELISA test to determine whether an antibody is present in a patient's blood sample.
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  Activities

  West Nile Vectors-Hosts Game

  Are you a vector or a host? Play the game to learn how the virus spreads.
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  Activities

  Ebola: Disease Detectives

  In this classroom activity, students will analyze sequences of Ebola viruses isolated from patients in Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak of 2013–2016 to track the virus spread. Also available in Spanish.