Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Animal Research and Vaccines
Animals save lives. In small groups pupils research the role of animals in the development of vaccines. Each team investigates one disease to find out how the vaccine was developed and how animals played a role n the research. Groups...
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
A Student Exploration of the Global Impacts of Climate Change on Human HealthVector-Borne Diseases
Develop an understanding of how climate change affects humans' health. The class lists what they know about climate change and its connection to disease and then read sections of an article providing specific details on how climate...
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Vaccine History and Research
It all becomes a matter of timing. Groups use a variety of resources to research the history of vaccines by first creating a timeline of vaccine research using leading scientists' work. Learners read articles to develop a story of the...
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Understanding How Diseases Spread
To boost disease prevention, high schoolers arm themselves with information about infectious diseases and how they spread. Scholars research the causes, prevention techniques, and identify high-risk groups especially vulnerable to a...
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Biotechnology Institute
Biotechnology Institute: Your World: Health Care, Agriculture, Environment [Pdf]
Take a closer look at some of the ways in which biotechnology is applied to help solve medical issues and improve our environment.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Watch Out! That Wild Animal Might Be Rabid!
The word rabid often makes people think of an animal that is extremely violent, crazy, and maybe even foaming at the mouth. But not all animals infected with the rabies disease fit that description. Nevertheless, it is important to avoid...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Travelers' Health: Disease Directory
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information on over 40 diseases that travelers might need to be prepared for. Information includes description of disease, risk for travelers, preventive measures and treatment.
Scientific American
Scientific American: A Field Guide to Bats : In Depth Reports
Uncover the evolutionary past of the mysterious bats. Find out about their amazing ability to use sonar, the threat of rabies they carry, and conservation efforts to save the species.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: The Rabies Virus
CDC site about the classification of rabies, its structure, and process of replication. Also has pictures of the structure and replication. Provides links to more detailed information on different aspects of rabies.
Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Med Myst: Reloaded: Disease Defenders
In this online adventure game, become part of a team of experts investigating an infectious disease outbreak. Learn about the science of infectious disease and the medical careers of real scientists such as an epidemiologist,...
World Health Organization
World Health Organization: Rabies
The World Health Organization offers a detailed overview of rabies. Content focuses on incidence data, transmission of the disease, post-exposure treatment, vaccines and immunization, rabies in children, and more.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Compendium of Rabies Prevention & Control
This site from the Centers for Disease Control provides information about the rabies vaccine and immune globulin. It gives some background information on rabies, but mainly focuses on the vaccine, what it is comprised of, who should...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Protect Your Family From Rabies
Information on rabies offers precautions to take to protect yourself, your family, and your pets from it.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Infectious Diseases Cards: Rabies [Pdf]
A one-page fact card on rabies describes the virus and explains how you can get it.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Louis Pasteur
An introduction to the life and achievements of the great scientist Louis Pasteur. (In Spanish)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Healthy Pets Healthy People
Learn what you need to do to keep your pets healthy, to keep yourself safe from rabies, and to treat animal bites and scratches.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: About Rabies
Site from the Centers for Disease Control about what rabies is, its public health importance, and the costs related to prevention and prevalence.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Rabies Diagnosis
This site from the Centers for Disease Control discusses how rabies is diagnosed in animals and in humans. It thoroughly describes the procedure of the direct fluorescent antibody (dFA) test used for detection of rabies.
Other
Immunization Action Coalition: Vaccine Information: Rabies
Comprehensive information about rabies and the vaccine that prevents it. Contains a Q & A section, photos and videos, true case histories, and references to other resources.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The Return of Tb
Test your knowledge of tuberculosis and other diseases. Separate fact from fiction, and match historical notes and symptoms to various human illnesses.
Other
Illinois Raptor Center: Rabies: Risks and Responsibilities
What animals are at risk of getting the rabies virus? How do you prevent the spread of rabies? What is the difference between canine distemper and rabies? These questions are answered in this informative site.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Rabies
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.
Curated OER
Rabies: Risks and Responsibilities
What animals are at risk of getting the rabies virus? How do you prevent the spread of rabies? What is the difference between canine distemper and rabies? These questions are answered in this informative site.