Responses to Week 3 Deadly Feasts

http://tracybioap.blogspot.com/2012/10/week-3-deadly-feasts-time-master.html
Tracy's timeline is accurate and shows exactly what happens from the time the disease begins to display its effects to the examinations of the corpses after death. Each disease has a timeline and most of them follow the way her timeline looks.


http://anqilao123.blogspot.com/2012/10/week-3-discussion-masterresponses.html
1. Bertha Elschker showed that she had physical damage in her brain. She would scream uncontrollably, giggle randomly, walk unsteadily, etc.


2. Creutzfeldt found extensive brain damage without inflammation and that millions of brain cells were killed and replaced by glial cells.
3. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a degenerative brain disorder that leads to dementia and, ultimately, death. 
4. The CJD is different from other diseases because it occurs more rapidly and that it is pretty rare.
5. Epidemiology is the study of distributions and it is used to gain more knowledge about an epidemic.
6. Both the CJD and kuru had an absence of inflammation.
7. The cerebellum is the part of the brain that CJD and kuru affect. It affects it by making holes of spongiform change.
8. Bill Hadlow was a man who was on loan to the British from an outpost NIH lab. He was qualified to explore animal and human pathology. He was studying scrapie and scrapie affected the nervous systems of goats and sheeps. It was discovered that scrapie could be transmitted experimentally and since it was similar to kuru, it was believed that kuru could also be transmitted experimentally.
9. They took tissue from a sheep that had scrapie, homogenized it, and then injected it into healthy animals. After waiting for a period of time, the French veterinarians found out that the healthy animals began to show symptoms of scrapie and eventually died.
10. They both made the brain of the organism spongy and also made holes in the brain.