Q Dear Class: Midterm requirements: 1000 words, 12pt font Times New Roman, a minimum of 4 references, double spaced, and due on Monday 9/28 by 11:59pm. Please read Shah pp. 57-96 and respond to the following: 1. Christianity had a negative take on water and its uses in sanitation on a personal and communal levels. What was the result? How did other religions regard washing of hands, etc.? Discuss this. 2. Explain why cholera resulted? What happened in Manhattan in 1832? 3. What's going on with dog poop? What about poop from farm animals? What is STEC? 4. What is "horiztonal gene transfer?" Describe an incident. 5. What is Hait's waste management system? What about the rest of the world? What is the result? 6. Describe and discuss the Irish potato famine. 7. What happened in 1849 in NYC when so many people were crowded into tenements? How did cholera return and what happened then? 8. By 2030, most human will live in large cities and more than 1/2 of the world's chickens and pigs are raised on factory farms and beef on feedlots. How do crowds provide pathogens with 3 advantages. What are they? 9. How have we created a more virulent influenza by crowding? Explain. What happened with factory farming of chickens in China and the mixing of wild birds with chickens? 10. How many people die each year globally with seasonal influenza? Discuss the H5N1 virus and its evolution and how pigs come into the story. 11. What is "H" and what is "N?" What do these letters stand for? 12. Why was H3N2v unprecedented? What is H7N9? 13. Where is H1N1 hiding? 14. Citations please. PAM