GEO3454 Peoples and Plagues
What makes a new disease emerge? What makes diseases re-emerge? How has this affected world history through the ages? Can we learn from past scourge and pestilence?
This course is an introduction to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases in the context of historic disease outbreaks, focusing on zoonotic origin and management. We will explore the social and physical context of several major historic disease events, illustrating themes of control and response still relevant today. We will explore basic infectious disease processes, transmission cycles and life-histories of host-vector systems, and the ecological and landscape conditions that favor emergence.
Contact information: Dr. Gabriela Hamerlinck at ghamerlinck@ufl.edu
Semester: Spring 2021
Time and Location: Tuesday 6, Thursday 6-7
Hyflex (section GH54 meets in person in TUR 3018, section GHDL meets synchronously online)