Admit Slip: How would you define a symptom? Give 5 examples of symptoms?Objective: Students are able to idenify the role of symptoms in disease as in involuntary response by the body to disease. Examine disease transmission through the "eyes" of a pathogen.
Homework: Using the disease you created go to WebMd, the NIH or CDC websites and research your symptoms. See below for details on how to use WebMd.
Answer these questions about the disease you chose:
1. Give a detailed list of the symptoms of the disease
2. What is the treatment for the disease?
3. What happens if the disease remains untreated?
(Highly infectious microbe Shigella flexneri.)
How to use WebMd
When you go to WebMd, click on the text" DISEASES & CONDITIONS" At the top of the new window will be a box that says "check your symptoms here." Click that and off you go!
