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Human Biology Writing Assignment 2

Explore global health

In this writing assignment, you will look up information about a recent disease outbreak from around the world, and read several scientific papers related to that disease.

Learning objectives:

· Learn some of the details of transmission, infection, and recovery from a single disease

· Continue learning to read and understand scientific literature

· Learn to search for scientific literature using a scientific literature index

Step 1:

Begin here: http://healthmap.org . Browse around a bit to get familiar with the site.

· From the main page, find the Search button at the top left:

· From the Location tab, select a location that begins with the same letter as your last name (for me, Kevin Turner, I could select from Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Bahamas, or any other country that begins with T). There are no countries that begin with X, so if your last name begins with an X, you may use your first name instead.

· From the Species tab, select “Humans”

· From the Date tab, select “past month”

· Click the submit search button:

· Take a look at the map and click on some of the dots just to see a few of the disease outbreaks happening around the country

· Click the List View button at the top right: , then be sure to Display All Results

Step 2:

Start your paper by identifying the country you’re using, and list all human diseases from your chosen country. (If there was only a single disease reported in the last month, include a note to indicate this fact. If there were no diseases in the last month, select a new country.)

Step 3:

Select one of the listed diseases as the one to focus your paper on, and clearly identify it in your paper

Step 4:

Select from among the diseases listed (1), and follow one of the links to the “Summary” source, and view the full article (2):

Paste the internet link to this article into your paper.

Step 5:

In 1-2 sentences, summarize the information from the article

Identify the sources of information from the article (this is not a formal citation). This will be something like the health minister of the country, an agency like the Centers for Disease Control, a hospital, or other similar person or group.

Step 6:

Use the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites ( www.who.int and www.cdc.gov ) to search for your disease. Locate information sheets or fact sheets from either source.

In your paper, describe the disease in a few bullet points to include:

· What kind of organism causes the disease? (e.g. virus, bacteria, roundworm, etc.)

· How is it transmitted between people? (e.g. fluid contact, mosquito vector, etc.) • What are the symptoms?

· What are the treatments?

· One additional bit of information you find interesting

Step 7:

See Blackboard to watch the “Finding Scholarly Articles” and “Check if a journal uses peer review” presentations from WSU Librarian, Betty Galbraith about how to search for scientific literature using scholarly databases, and how to determine if an article is peer-reviewed.

Step 8:

Using PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, or any other scholarly database of your choice, search for and select 3 scientific articles about your disease. All three must be from peerreviewed journals (again, you can review instructions on Blackboard about searching for scientific literature and verifying peer-review), and all three must be primary research articles (news articles, reviews, and book reviews, even if published in peer-reviewed journals, may not be used). For each of the three articles, provide the following:

· Formal citation for the article.

· A 1-paragraph summary of the article and its major findings

Step 9:

Write a 1-2 paragraph summary of what you have learned about the disease, based on your WHO/CDC/research article readings.