Infection Across the Ages Research Project and Presentation

This research and present project will see you and a group of up to three people research and present about the history of a past or current outbreak of infection disease.

You will have three classes to research and prepare for the presentation. You must be ready to present on date TBD. Your presentation must be in your assignment folder or a link to the Presi in that folder.

Your group will choose from one of the following diseases:

• Spanish flu
• Smallpox
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome(SARS)
• Ebola
• Human Immunosuppressant Virus (HIV)
• Tuberculosis (TB)
• Typhoid
• Malaria
• Bubonic plague
• Yellow Fever
• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome(MERS)
• Polio
• Whooping Cough
• Cholera
• Measles, Mumps, Rubella
• Zika virus

Your presentation should try to answer the following questions:

• What is this disease?
• What kind of pathogen is this? How does it affect the human body?
• What portals of entry does it use?
• What tissues does it affect?
• How does it spread and is it deadly?
• How much of the pathogen does it take to infect a human?
• Look at the most significant outbreak of this disease and tell the class the story of what happened.
• How do/did the following factors affect this outbreak:
• Population
• Geography
• Hygiene
• Cultural beliefs and practices
• Globalization and ability to travel
• Medical advances
• Health system and government support.
• Global/local response level
• How did this event progress through being an endemic, epidemic, and pandemic disease?

	4 - Excellent	3 - Good	2 - Basic	1 - Needs Improvement
Content	The presentation answers all of the questions with detailed information	The presentation answers all of the questions with sufficient information	The presentation answers a majority of the questions with sufficient information.	The presentation does not answer a majority of the questions.
Research Methods	The research foundation is thorough and all sources are cited with no errors.	The research foundation is sound and all sources are cited with few errors.	The research foundation is sound on most points and most sources are cited with few errors.	The research is flawed and/or not cited properly.
Presentation	The slides presentation is visually appealing and creative choices enhance communication of information.	The slides presentation is visually appealing and creative choices do not interfere with information.	The slides presentation is  sometimes visually appealing and creative choices occasionally interfere with information.	No effort has been made to make the presentation visually appealing