Emerging Infectious Diseases

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This course will provide a deep dive into significant emerging infectious diseases in humans. Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) are defined by the CDC as new infections, known infections spreading to new geographic areas or populations, previously unrecognized infections, and/or old infections reemerging as a result of antimicrobial resistance. Through lecture, discussion, and in-class activities?, we will focus on factors that contribute to the rise or emergence of novel (new) infectious diseases, mechanisms of disease transmission, general and disease-specific molecular mechanisms of host immune response, diagnostic techniques, treatment plans and the epidemiology of disease control and prevention for disease.