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Remedy Health Media

Health Central: Measles

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from HealthCentral provides a detailed overview of rubeola (measles). Content includes a list of alternative names, causes, symptoms, treatment, complications, and more. Great pictures too.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Rabies

For Students 3rd - 9th
How do animals get rabies? But more importantly, how do people get it and how can they and animals avoid it? Rabies is a serious infection, so see a doctor quickly if you have been bitten by an animal.
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Kids Health: What Is Smallpox?

For Students 3rd - 9th
From Kids Health, this site describes what smallpox is and answers some other questions kids might have.
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American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource describes an organization that is involved in studies and treatments of allergies. Research and education are also important parts of this organization.
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Virology

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the common strategy that viruses must adopt with this collection of video lectures from Columbia University in the City of New York. In twenty-six lectures, virus structure, reproductive cycle, and interaction of viruses with...
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A Young Child Is Examined for Polio in the 1950s.

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the first polio vaccine by providing a timeline that begins in 1800 with an outbreak of infantile paralysis, photos, facts, and personal interviews.
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A Physical Therapist Works With Two Polio Stricken Children in the 1950s.

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the first polio vaccine by providing a timeline that begins in 1800 with an outbreak of infantile paralysis, photos, facts, and personal interviews.
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Dr. Jonas Salk, Left, and Dr. Julius Youngner

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the first polio vaccine by providing a timeline that begins in 1800 with an outbreak of infantile paralysis, photos, facts, and personal interviews.
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Maxine Fisher, Left, and Beatrice Sharp Slutsky

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the first polio vaccine by providing a timeline that begins in 1800 with an outbreak of infantile paralysis, photos, facts, and personal interviews.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edward Jenner

For Students 9th - 10th
Edward Jenner was an English country doctor who studied nature and his natural surroundings since his childhood and practiced medicine in Berkeley. He is famous for his discovery of the smallpox vaccine.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Louis Pasteur

For Students 9th - 10th
A chemist and biologist, born in dole, department of Jura, France, Dec. 27, 1822; died Sept. 28, 1895. He is known most famously for his demonstrations supporting the germ theory of disease and his vaccinations, most notably the first...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Louis Pasteur

For Students 9th - 10th
A French chemist who created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax, as well as supported the germ theory of disease through his various experiments. He invented the method of pasteurization.
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Medinfo: Whooping Cough

For Students 9th - 10th
This website defines whooping cough and briefly talks about the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
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Child With Smallpox

For Students 9th - 10th
National Public Radio offers information on smallpox vaccinations, the "best chance to offset bioterror threat." Includes a brief description of the disease and its history.
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Kids Health: Your Child's Immunizations

For Students 9th - 10th
Lets you know when you should be concerned and call a doctor for help.
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WebMD

Web Md: Understanding Tetanus

For Students 9th - 10th
WebMD provides the basics about tetanus. Discusses what it is, what causes it, what its symptoms are, how it can be treated, and prevention measures.

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