| date |
topics |
reading |
| 4/3 |
Vaccine efficacy (measles, pertussis)
Pertussis
outbreak, Vermont, 1996
Measles
Outbreak - Southwestern Utah, 1996 |
6
common misconceptions about vaccination
Anti-immunization
scare: the inconvenient facts |
| 4/5 |
Epidemiology
John Snow web
site
Epidemiological
terminology |
Tracking
the Hidden Epidemics: Trends in STDs in the United States 2000,
CDC (need Adobe Acrobat) |
|
4/10 |
Virulence and mode of transmission: a comparison
of the common cold and
cholera.
Epidemiology
of the common cold. |
Evolution
of Virulence, P. Ewald |
|
4/12 |
vector-borne pathogens |
Malaria |
|
4/17 |
DNA technology in forensics |
DNA
fingerprints
DNA
in identification
Winding
your way through DNA: DNA on the witness stand |
|
4/19 |
DNA technology in evolutionary biology
DNA
sequencing |
Who
Peopled the Planet? (Joan Gutin, Discover, Nov 1992)
Eve and her Tree (S. J. Gould, Discover July 1992)
Salvaged
DNA adds to Neanderthal's mystique (Science News 4/1/2001)
The
other DNA:research on mitochondrial diseases
By E. A. Schon and S. Dimauro, Columbia University |
|
to
part 4 - origin of sex |
