1. Airborne Pathogens except TB

2. Brainstorm
How do you prevent an airborne disease?

3. Protect your self, protect your client
Know your immunization status
Are you up to date?
Immunizations aren’t just for kids
If you were exposed to an airborne pathogen, could you prove you were immune?
Why does that even matter?

4. Pertussis Bacteria “Whooping Cough” Most severe in infants
Severe cough in bursts
Vomit after coughing
Most severe in infants
High rates in Clark County

5. Why is pertussis a problem?

6. Why are there high rates of pertussis?
Vaccine is less protective than many vaccines
Adult symptoms are mild, so they go out and spread it
“I just have a little cold”

7. In 4 months we are going to have an outbreak that kills up to 49,000 people in the US?

8. Influenza Virus Small changes in virus every year
Fever plus a cough and/or sore throat
Between 5, ,000 die every year in the US
Young, old, immunocompromised

9. Influenza Have to be vaccinated every year?
Antigenic Drift
Small changes that result in need for new vaccination, last year’s vaccine probably gives some protection
Why does influenza cause pandemics?
Antigenic Shift
Big changes and most people have no immunity

10. So how do we figure out what strains to use in the vaccine?
Flu Season depends on where you live
What is spreading in the southern hemisphere
Our best scientific guess

11. Influenza in Animals? Pigs and Birds
Mixing of viruses, think of as a virus breeding ground

13. Measles Virus Severe fever & rash illness
Rare in the US due to vaccination
Very contagious!!!
High rate of death in those infected, relative to other infectious diseases

14. Measles Why haven’t we been able to eradicate it?
Contagious before any symptoms
The MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine does not cause autism
Andrew Wakefield
Jenny McCarthy

15. Stop-Hammer Time