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GE ELECT I - MODULE 3 - Lesson 2

This document provides an overview of Lesson 2 from Module 3, which focuses on changes in exposure pathways that can lead to disease transmission. The lesson contains various activities to help students understand different exposure pathways, including arranging letters to form words related to exposure pathways like vectors, causative agents, and diseases. It also provides a table that lists examples of how environmental changes can alter exposure pathways and the diseases impacted by these changes, such as incursions into wildlife habitat exposing humans to zoonotic diseases. The assessment activity asks students to identify the exposure pathway described in scenarios involving bushmeat harvesting in Central Africa and other situations related to agriculture, urban slums, population density, and waterborne disease outbreaks.

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GE ELECT I - MODULE 3 - Lesson 2

This document provides an overview of Lesson 2 from Module 3, which focuses on changes in exposure pathways that can lead to disease transmission. The lesson contains various activities to help students understand different exposure pathways, including arranging letters to form words related to exposure pathways like vectors, causative agents, and diseases. It also provides a table that lists examples of how environmental changes can alter exposure pathways and the diseases impacted by these changes, such as incursions into wildlife habitat exposing humans to zoonotic diseases. The assessment activity asks students to identify the exposure pathway described in scenarios involving bushmeat harvesting in Central Africa and other situations related to agriculture, urban slums, population density, and waterborne disease outbreaks.

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Module 3

LESSON
2 Changes in Exposure
Pathways
Objectives:
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

To determine different exposure pathways that leads to


disease transmission.
To provide example of each identified exposure
pathways .

Introduction:
Hello, how are you? Hope you are doing good! Welcome to Lesson 2 of Module 3.
In this lesson, you are about to learn about exposure pathways that leads to disease
transmission. Moreover, there are some tasks that you need to accomplish so that you
will grasp the gist of this topic. So are you ready? Alright, let’s begin!

Activity:

Arrange the following set of letters to come up with words


that are related to the exposure pathways.

MENTLETSET ZABANITIONUR ONSCURINSI

SHMBUEAT LIFLDEWI

THOPAGEN PREOSUEX WATHPAY

SEDIASE BITHAAT
Analysis:

Identify each words and classify if it is a vector, causative


agent or the disease.

Item Classification Item Classification


1. Malaria 6. rodents
2. Aedes mosquitoes 7. Dengue
3. Leptopirosis 8. Giardia lamblia
4. Simian retroviruses 9. Anopheles
5. Vibrio cholerae 10. Filarasis

Abstraction:

In addition to changing the density or presence of disease-related organisms, global


change is also altering routes of infectious disease exposure. Some of these new
exposure pathways have little to do with changes in the natural world—such as increases
in trade and transportation that facilitate the rapid movement of disease-related
organisms around the globe. However, many types of human-caused environmental
change also lead to new exposure pathways.
Table 2.1. Mechanisms of altered infectious disease exposure resulting from
environmental change
Mechanism by
which
environmental Diseases known to be
change alters Examples impacted by this mechanism
disease
transmission
Changes in Incursions into wildlife habitat Malaria, trypanosomiasis,
exposure pathways can lead to new exposure to cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis,
zoonotic disease as seen in Ebola, simian retroviruses,
Ebola, simian retroviruses, probably human
and, probably, human immunodeficiency syndrome,
immunodeficiency syndrome. dengue, filariasis, Chagas
Dense urban settlements with disease, plague, leptospirosis,
poor sanitation, waste typhus, diarrheal disease, food
disposal, or water treatment poisoning
can lead to increased
exposure to many diseases
including diarrheal disease,
dengue, and leptospirosis.
SUMMARY ON CHANGES IN EXPOSURE PATHWAYS
Figure 2.1. Changes in exposure pathways.

Application:
The figure below shows the hunter butchers butchers bushmeat
including duikers (a local antelope) and a moustache monkey in the
Central African Republic. Which pathway would describe the
scenario? Explain your answer in three to five sentences.
Assessment:

Identify what changes in exposure pathways each statement describe.

1. The cultivation of coffee and cacao plantations creates excellent habitat for the
tsetse fly, and nonimmune agricultural workers rapidly become infected by its vector.
Answer:
2. Poor quality housing, which does not provide an effective barrier to mosquitoes,
rodents, or fleas, further contributes to the spread of vector-borne disease in
slums. Answer:
3. Increased human population density and size can both increase the likelihood
of infectious disease becoming established in an urban population
Answer:
4. In Central Africa alone, 1–3.4 million tons of bushmeat are harvested
annually. Answer:
5. A study of all-cause waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States found
a strong association with heavy precipitation.
Answer:

Excellent! You just finished Lesson 2 of Module 3! Should you have any questions or queries
regarding this lesson, please do not hesitate to reach out to your instructors.
Are you ready to take your next lesson? Good luck and enjoy reading.

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