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We at Crash Course and our partners Operation Outbreak
and the Sabeti Lab at the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard
want to acknowledge the Indigenous people native to the land we live and work on,
and their traditional and ongoing relationship with this land.
We encourage you to learn about the history of the place you call home
through resources like native-land.ca. and by engaging with your local Indigenous and Aboriginal nations
through the websites and resources they provide.. A single virus is about one thousandth the width of a human hair.
And yet they have the capacity to wreak havoc on nearly all human life on Earth.
Although we saw this play out when the Covid-19 pandemic emerged in 2020,
it still feels a little unbelievable.. And the same big questions about infectious disease outbreaks we
had before Covid-19 are as important as ever.. What do pathogens actually do to us that makes us sick?
Why do societies respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases the way they do?
And most importantly, how can all of us help stop the next one?
These are the kinds of questions we ask ourselves in what we’ll collectively call Outbreak Science,
which covers the many ways of looking at epidemics, pandemics,
and really any time an infectious disease starts affecting more people than expected.
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bacterium, virus, or other microorganism. Any disease-producing agent.
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Putting on an act; not genuine. To cause a change in something else.
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aggregate of people living together in more. Communities of people living together.
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devotion of time and attention to gaining knowledge of academic subject. Rooms that a person studies or reads in. devote time and attention to gaining knowledge of academic subject.
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sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information. Issues or problems you are dealing with. ask someone questions.
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set of related web pages located under single domain name. Collections of webpages in one location.
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sudden occurrence of something unwelcome. Sudden occurrence of illness, discontent etc..
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half-pillar or half-pier attached to wall to support arch. To answer something or someone.