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8C Microbes & Disease

Scientific Eye – Microbes & Disease – a 19m 13s video:

Scientific Eye – Microbes & Health – a 19m video:

Science in Action – Microbes – a 19m video.

How do vaccines work? – a TED-Ed lesson from Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut:

What is a Fungus? – a TED-Ed lesson from the Naked Science Scrapbook:

You and your microbes – a TEDEd lesson from Jessica Green & Karen Guilleman.

11.1 Antibody Production & Vaccination

Immune system hl from Bob Smullen

Fantastic animated tutorials from McGraw Hill Education – the Immune response, T-cell dependent antigens, Epitopes, antigen-presenting cells & T-helper cells and cytotoxic T-cells.

Three videos from TED-Ed: how we conquered the deadly smallpox virus (well, if we ignore the work of the WHO); Learning from smallpox: how to eradicate a disease and here’s a simple answer to How do vaccines work?

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Vaccine infographic created by Leon Farrant.

VaccinationInfographic from Compound Interest.

The top 10 vaccine infographics here.

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6.3 Defence against Infectious Disease

BioKnowledgy Presentation on 6.3 defense against infectious disease from Chris Paine

In Crash Course Biology #32 – Your Immune System: Natural Born Killer, Hank tells us about the team of deadly ninja assassins that is tasked with protecting our bodies from all the bad guys that want to kill us – also known as our immune system.

PATHOGENS

The Germ Theory – a 4m 39s TEDEd lesson.

Virus trading cards from Tabletop Whale.

CLOTTING

How does blood clot – a 2m video from eMedTV. – and here the process of blood clotting. Here is a game on Blood clotting factors.

INNATE IMMUNITY

Phagocytosis videos: here and here

AQUIRED IMMUNITY

Antibody production – a 1m video.

ANTIBIOTICS

Antibiotics – seven wonders of the microbe world – 4m 30s video. Penicillin – the magic bullet (a 3m video), and here is the Rise of the Superbug – Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria: Dr. Karl Klose. The wonder drug – an old video.

Antibotics don’t work on viruses. Here is how a virus invades a cell in Flu Attack!

HIV / AIDS

HIV and AIDS, a 7m video. Fantastic animated tutorials from McGraw Hill Education – HIV replication (how a retrovirus replicates) & how the HIV infection cycle works. Why it’s so hard to cure HIV/AIDS (a TED-Ed lesson).

Mr W sings I’m a Virus!: