Zika Thematic Maps
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This website has many different types of thematic maps. A thematic map is a type of map or chart especially designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area. These maps "can portray physical, social, political, cultural, economic, sociological, agricultural, or any other aspects of a city, state, region, nation, or continent". (You will need to have the Zika handout from your teacher. )
Your textbook discussed a deadly disease called cholera. It spread through contaminated water during 1854. John Snow (doctor) was able to figure out the source by plotting out the cases of sickness. (He made a thematic map!) The same can be true of a very deadly illnesses throughout history. A couple of years ago the world was consumed with the spread of Ebola through Africa. However, now all attention is a new disease Zika virus, which is carried by mosquitoes. Step 1: Watch video on the right about mosquitoes and answer questions. |
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Past & PresentStep 2: Use map on left to understand spread.
Zika virus has been around for the past 60 years but only recently made the news in the past two years. Using your map skills you will need to infer why. When you look at the map what is the typical latitude? What type of climate is located there? How could that help spread the virus? Based on the map where did the virus first infect humans? Did it spread? Why do you think it did or did not? What other countries have has Zika affected? Where is it currently at? Why do you think it is current spreading faster now then in the past? |
Why Did it Spread?
Step 3: Please analyze the map of Brazil below and answer questions about Zika on handout.
Translation
Line 1: more than 50 cases; line 2: 11 to 500 cases, line 3 2 to 10 cases; line 4: 1 case Line 5: reported cases Line 6: no reported cases |
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Symptoms of Zika |
Zika & AfFect on PREGANCY |
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Step 4: Watch the video below
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Step 5: Zika has severe affects on unborn children. One of the first questions a women is asked when she becomes pregnant is where her our her spouse have traveled to access the risk of Zika. Please watch the video on the right to listen to a women's story about her child. Watch video at following link and answer questions on handout.
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Understanding Thematic Maps
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Zika & the USA
Step 7: Read the following story from NBC to learn about how ZIka is affecting the United States.
Following information is from: Mohney, Gillian. "6 New Zika Virus Cases Reported in Florida, Bringing Outbreak Total to 70." ABC News. ABC News Network, n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2016.
The ongoing outbreak of locally transmitted Zika virus continues with six new cases reported today. These new cases bring the total number of people infected with locally transmitted Zika virus in southern Florida to 70. This outbreak first reported in July is the first time the virus has spread via mosquitoes in the continental U.S.
The Florida Department of Health officials said they still believe there are only two small areas in the southern part of the state where Zika transmission is ongoing. Those locations in the Wynwood neighborhood in northern Miami and in the town of Miami Beach are currently being sprayed with insecticide in order to diminish the population of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that spread the Zika virus.
However, the department reported they are investigating one of the six new cases to see where that person was exposed to the virus. The other infections were associated with exposures in the Miami Beach and Wynwood area. "One case does not mean ongoing active transmission is taking place," officials from the Florida Department of Health said in a statement today. There have been 634 cases of travel-related Zika infections in Florida and a total of 86 pregnant women have been reported infected with the virus since the start of the outbreak, according to the Florida Department of Health.
Dr. Stephen Morse, a professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, told ABC News in an earlier interview that health officials will likely look at past outbreaks of dengue fever to understand how long a Zika outbreak will last. The dengue fever virus is in the same family of viruses as the Zika virus and spread by the same mosquito species, though it causes different symptoms and is not sexually transmitted.
Please watch the following the link to learn about Zika in the USA.
Following information is from: Mohney, Gillian. "6 New Zika Virus Cases Reported in Florida, Bringing Outbreak Total to 70." ABC News. ABC News Network, n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2016.
The ongoing outbreak of locally transmitted Zika virus continues with six new cases reported today. These new cases bring the total number of people infected with locally transmitted Zika virus in southern Florida to 70. This outbreak first reported in July is the first time the virus has spread via mosquitoes in the continental U.S.
The Florida Department of Health officials said they still believe there are only two small areas in the southern part of the state where Zika transmission is ongoing. Those locations in the Wynwood neighborhood in northern Miami and in the town of Miami Beach are currently being sprayed with insecticide in order to diminish the population of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that spread the Zika virus.
However, the department reported they are investigating one of the six new cases to see where that person was exposed to the virus. The other infections were associated with exposures in the Miami Beach and Wynwood area. "One case does not mean ongoing active transmission is taking place," officials from the Florida Department of Health said in a statement today. There have been 634 cases of travel-related Zika infections in Florida and a total of 86 pregnant women have been reported infected with the virus since the start of the outbreak, according to the Florida Department of Health.
Dr. Stephen Morse, a professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, told ABC News in an earlier interview that health officials will likely look at past outbreaks of dengue fever to understand how long a Zika outbreak will last. The dengue fever virus is in the same family of viruses as the Zika virus and spread by the same mosquito species, though it causes different symptoms and is not sexually transmitted.
Please watch the following the link to learn about Zika in the USA.
