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Swine Flu Outbreak Stirs Fears
In this video, schools have closed down from Queens to western Japan. New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. explains the facts behind the pandemic.
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http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/05/18/health/11948403487...
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A Viral Wonderland in the Human Gut
Each person's gut carries a different collection of bacteria-infecting viruses that may benefit their hosts, researchers report. The viruses contain DNA fragments whose functions include cell repair and food processing.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/07/viral-wonderland-huma...
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Understanding Ebola Virus Disease
This interactive map is part of a larger site dedicated to understanding the spread of Ebola. It allows users to explore population density and incidence of disease regarding Ebola. Users can zoom in and out on a split map in order to see both Ebola incidence in a particular location and the human population density in that location. Two discussion questions that ask the students to interpret...
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http://ebola.bscs.org/#map-density
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Retroviruses and viral diversity
This interactive slide show includes a brief discussion of what makes a virus a retrovirus, and how they differ from other types of viruses.
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http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/disease/retrovirus_2/01.h...
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U.S. AIDS epidemic
A short visual representation of the U.S. AIDS epidemic from 1981 to 1997. Each dot represents 30 cases. A map of the United States is presented and dots are added as the years pass and AIDS spreads. There is narration to go along with the clip.
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http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/us-aids-epidemic
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