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Health and the Human Machine

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.05.09

Unit Guide

Human Papillomavirus: Investigating the Prevention, Transmission, and Treatments of a Viral Infection

Heidi A. Everett

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Appendix

Implementing District Standards

There are two key standards that will be covered in this exploration of viral infections and the vaccinations developed to prevent them. The New Haven district requires that students are able to develop an answer as to how science and technology in society affect the quality of human life. The unit will involve teaching students how genetic engineering has provided the necessary steps to develop safe and effective vaccines for viruses such as HPV. In addition, the students will be able to determine how technological advances have increased the longevity of human life and in turn increased the size of human populations over the past century due to the development of vaccinations. The unit will also have a significant e-learning component that will allow the students to use software programs and websites that provide the general public and health science careers with a three-dimensional interactive graphics of viral structures and the way in which they infect various cells in the human anatomy.

The other district standard that will be covered concerns the students' ability to describe differences and similarities between viruses and bacteria. This standard will act as the introduction to the unit as the students would have covered this topic in a unit previous to this one. The bulk of the unit aligns with the district standard involving the transmission, prevention, and treatment of infectious diseases. Students will determine how viral infectious diseases are transmitted and analyze how vaccinations are used in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.

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