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xheyitzmarkx: Hiiiiiii Jiselle =)
hellooooojiselle: WHAT'S UP MARK FUKUDA WHO IS TOTALLY AWESOME?!
xheyitzmarkx: Nm, just research for speech & debate...
hellooooojiselle:  That sounds fun! What are you researching?
xheyitzmarkx: I'm researching Swine Flu (h1n1). It's a prettttty major disease right now. It's like the mad cow of 2009.
hellooooojiselle: No way, you are so much smarter than me! tell me about it!
xheyitzmarkx: Well , according to wikipedia, Influenza A (H1N1) virus is a subtype of influenza A virus and was the most common cause of humaninfluenza (flu) in 2009. Some strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans and cause a small fraction of allinfluenza-like illness and a small fraction of all seasonal influenza. H1N1 strains caused a few percent of all human flu infections in 2004–2005.^[1] Other strains of H1N1 are endemic in pigs (swine influenza) and in birds (avian influenza).

In June 2009, the World Health Organization declared the new strain of swine-origin H1N1 as apandemic. This strain is often called swine flu by the public media. This novel virus spread worldwide and had caused about 17,000 deaths by the start of 2010. On August 10, 2010, the World Health Organization declared the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity had returned to typical seasonal patterns. Click on the links if you want to know more! 

The bell just rang, g2g peace!

Blog #6 poem

Acrostic poem 

Mad (14th symptom)
occupation (possible source of disease)
nice (to animals, women another possible source of disease)
end (his death was a tragic and ghastly)
time (as time went on the disease destroyed his body and tissues, leading to his unfortuent end.)

(poem just for fun)
roses are red, violets , are blue, charles monet, you got screwed.
roses are red, violets are blue, charles monet, you turned to goo.

week 5 blog: helpful bacteria, bad viruses

Not all bacteria are bad!  Some bacteria are helpful! Intestinal bacteria help break down foods.  Without the right kind of bacteria, we would die.  These bacteria help break down food.  So not all bateria are bad, many are useful and help us LIVE!



http://www.ctds.info/helpful_bacteria.html#helpful_bacteria
ezinearticles.com/?Helpful-Bacteria&id=1818496 
nbsp.sonoma.edu/resources/presentations/.../tsld012.htm 

 Viruses, on the other hand, are very harmful.  They infect your cells and make you sick. They are responsible for many deaths (like in Africa)


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus  
www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11557
www.mayoclinic.com/health/infectious-disease/AN00652