What Is Outbreak Science? Crash Course Outbreak Science #1

Infectious disease has affected the human species for as long as we’ve existed, but in that time we’ve come a long way in understanding what they are and how they spread. In this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science, we’ll introduce some of the core concepts that will help us throughout this series as we discover the effects of infectious disease, from the microscopic, to the societal level.

Thanks for watching this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science, which was produced by Complexly in partnership with Operation Outbreak and the Sabeti Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard—with generous support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. If you want to help keep Crash Course free for everyone, forever, you can join our community on Patreon.

Sources:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13017672-000-latin-america-struggles-as-cholera-spreads/
https://web.archive.org/web/20120831015036/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/10/world/latin-nations-feud-over-cholera-outbreak.html
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01120/full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK27114/#:~:text=Pathogenic%20organisms%20are%20of%20five,as%20shown%20schematically%20in%20Fig.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8544225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1760754/
https://www.who.int/ihr/lyon/surveillance/case_studies/en/

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