Antibiotics and Vaccines

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Antibiotics and Vaccines

• Webquest

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Directions

• Answer all questions by following the links and
  reading the webpages
• Write answers in your lab notebook in a way that
  will make sense to you a month from now.

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Antibiotics

• How do antibiotics work to kill bacteria?
• http//science.howstuffworks.com/question88.htm
• What is the history of antibiotics?
• http//encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761577894/anti
  biotics.html

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Antibiotics

• What is antibiotic resistance?
• http//www.cdc.gov/NARMS/faq_pages/2.htm
• 4. How does antibiotic resistance occur?
• http//www.tufts.edu/med/apua/QA/QA_AR.html
• http//www.cdc.gov/NARMS/faq_pages/3.htm

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Antibiotics

• List 7 things you can do to prevent bacterial
  resistance
• http//www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/community/know-a
  nd-do.htm

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Vaccines

• What is a vaccine (use the picture)?
• http//www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/howvpd.htm
• What are 4 ways vaccines can be made (read the
  first 4 sections with bold headings)?
• http//www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/division/generic.
  jsp?id75749
• Using what you now know about vaccines, why might
  people be concerned about getting vaccines?

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Vaccines

• How are vaccines tested for safety?
• http//www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/basic/faq.htm
• Look up one vaccine and answer how is the
  vaccine made and does the vaccine outweigh the
  risks of the disease?
• http//www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/division/generic.
  jsp?id75692