Responses to Week 5 Deadly Feasts

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-Quote 1 is important because it shows his exposure to science during his younger years.
-I agree that Quote 3 is significant because it shows how a simple mistake or event can lead to the downfall of everything during an experiment.
-Quote 4 is important because it shows that though Gibbs tells people the diseases aren't infectious, people don't believe it.
-Quote 8 is also important because at first, people laughed at the idea of monkeys having kuru but in the end, it was proven to be true.
-I agree that Quote 9 is important because it tells us about the hard life of scientists. Mistakes and false claims may cause an end to their good reputation/career.
-Quote 12 is important because it proves that kuru was transmissible.
-Quote 14 is significant because it tells the readers why kuru was mostly found in women. It was mostly found in women because women were the ones who usually ate raw flesh.
-Quote 15 is important because it tells readers that germs may be killed by UV light. Germs are killed by damaging their DNA.

http://tracybioap.blogspot.com/2012/11/week-5-deadly-feast-discussion-master.html
1. The price of chimpanzees back then was $300 but nowadays, they cost around $25,000.
2. George was anesthetized and had a hole drilled in his skull. The scientists then put some of the kuru infected solution into a syringe and put it into George.
3. It was proven by the scientists through their experiments with other animals.
4. Robert Koch was a German physicist who listed the steps that researchers needed to follow in order to prove the fact that a disease agent causes a disease.
5. The agent must be present in every case of the disease, inoculations of pure cultures of the agent must profuce disease in animals, and cultures of the agent purified from such diseased animals must produce the disease again and repeatably.
6. Pathology of Georgette indistinguishable from human kuru.
7. Elisabeth Beck found an enormous loss of nerve cells, kuru plaques, astrogliosis and spongiform change in Georgette's brain.
8. Viruses were able to pass through filters that bacteria weren't able to pass through.
9. The scrapie agent resisted boiling, freezing, and many other methods and attempts to destroy it.
10. UV light kills germs by damaging the germ's DNA.