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Student worksheet: Debi's Story:
Explaining What Happened
Directions: You will watch a young woman named Debi French discuss her battle with tuberculosis using a CD-Rom. You will be using the results of your bacterial growth experiment to help explain
what happened in her struggle with the disease.
Follow the steps below to explain what happened to Debi French.
1. Click on The Diagnosis and view Debi's description of her initial diagnosis. Summarize what you learned
by completing the following sentences:
Debi contracted tuberculosis (TB) from
The symptoms Debi had were
2. Click on The Initial Treatment to hear Debi describe the treatment prescribed by her doctor and its outcome. Summarize what you learned by completing the following sentences:
3. Review the results and conclusions you drew in the Antibiotic Resistance Lab. Put together those conclusions with the observations from the first two parts of Debi's Story to
complete the following sentence:
4. Click on The Treatment Fails to learn what happened to Debi next. Summarize what you learned by completing the following sentences:
On Valentine's Day 1994, Debi learned
The drugs Debi took to cure her TB were not working because
5. Review the results and conclusions from the Antibiotics Resistance Lab. Put together those results and Debi's experience to complete the following sentence:
Debi had a relapse (developed an active case of TB again), even though her health had improved and she was still taking the drugs to cure TB, because
6. Click on A Happy Ending to learn what finally happened to Debi. Summarize what you learned by completing the following sentences:
Debi was finally cured of TB by
Debi's warning about TB is
ADAPTED FROM the NIH Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases(Ó 1999 by BSCS and Videodiscovery, Inc
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