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Unit three of the STEAM course Disease called World. We learned about the spread of diseases. We also learned about black plague and the Zika virus. I was interested in the way we used the data. We were able to gauge the population that we needed to get the vaccine which is called an R-Naught.

For this Action Project. We had to choose from a Pandemic ,Epidemic, and endemic. Finding the causes and the decline for the disease.We had to find two places that can contract the disease. For my project, the hardest thing was trying to find a map that would show the spread of Tularemia. I couldn't find one. It was also hard to find the R- Naught of my disease.
Two Tularemia Outbreaks

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There were outbreaks of Tularemia in 1988 and 2002 .In Turkey it is Tularemia is to be a considered an endemic. In this case, it was caught by drinking water that was contaminated with Francisella Tularensis which is the main cause of Tularemia. the Incubation period was 1-14 days.

Two risk factors for getting Tularemia are touching dead animals with bare hands and drinking water that might be contaminated with Tularensis. Tularemia is a disease spread by animals and it can be spread by air droplets too. The symptoms for Tularemia are Skin Ulcer's,headache and exhaustion.People mostly get the disease by hunting for hares you can also get it from domesticated cats you can be bitten by a tick or mosquito.

There is a vaccine for the disease which is antibiotics. But depending on how severe it is you can have the vaccine and still die. The two countries that could have an outbreak are Turkey and Germany because Germany and turkey both have had outbreaks of Tularemia in years and have most likely will have it again. The places hunt too for hares. It has emerged and re-emerged multiple times in Europe 38 European countries to be exact. This disease is considered to be endemic because it is it usually found in only northern parts of the world.

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The precautions for Tularemia is avoiding contact with animals that live in the outdoors for example rabbits and squirrels. Don't walk around with no shoes or socks on in places where animals frequently travel. Don't hunt wild animals with pets because they might be infected.I couldn't find the R-Naught because there isn't enough information on the disease because there haven't been that many cases, to get the R-naught you need to have the average of people that it can spread to.

Don't touch dead animals with no gloves or a mask. The decline in the disease was seasonal because people stop hunting in the winter and begin again in the spring and summer

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