(task) Teaching Activities for: ‘Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, C.D.C. Finds’ - The New York Times

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> Teaching Activities for: ‘Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, C.D.C. Finds’
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> More Americans are living in wooded suburbs near deer, which carry the ticks that spread Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, babesiosis, rabbit fever and Powassan virus. Scott Camazine/Science Source
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> Watch this Reuters TV video <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-health-insectillness/tick-mosquito-borne-infections-surge-in-united-states-cdc-idUSKBN1I2423> up to 1:27 minutes.
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> What insects and bugs are shown up close in the video? What does the video recommend to prevent insect and bug bites this summer?
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> Now, read the article, “Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, C.D.C. Finds <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/health/ticks-mosquitoes-diseases.html>,” and answer the following questions:
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> 1. What did federal health officials report on Tuesday, May 1, and what new tickborne diseases are showing up in the continental United States?
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> 2. What do Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials say is necessary to fight the diseases, according to the article?
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> 3. What are the statistics on insect-borne illnesses reported to the C.D.C., and what are the estimates of Americans who get Lyme disease each year?
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> 4. What are the five factors — two weather-related — for the increase in insect-borne illnesses, according to Dr. Lyle R. Petersen, the C.D.C.’s director of vector-borne diseases?
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> 5. What do ticks need to spread diseases, and what natural rodent predators have disappeared, according to the article?
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> 6. What is the only flea-borne disease mentioned in the C.D.C. report, and how can it be cured?
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> 7. What is happening in Britain and in Australia, according to Dr. Nicholas Watts, a global health specialist at University College London?
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> 8. What did Paul Reiter, a medical entomologist at the Pasteur Institute, say about the disease threat posed by climate change, and why?
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> Finally, tell us more about what you think:
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> According to the article, experts say the increase in reports of spreading disease may have resulted partially from more testing. To what extent do you think this may be a factor, and why?
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> What does Dr. Reiter mean when he says, “It’s a complicated, multidimensional system?”
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> What role do you think climate change plays in the increase in tick and mosquito infections, and why?
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> Besides using pesticides, what other strategies might work to halt the increase in tick, mosquito and flea infections? What ideas do you have, and why do you think they might work?