Science

Key Terms

• Essential Bacteria
• Digestion
• Without bacteria the earth would have no soil in which to grow plants.
• Some bacteria live of the root nodules of some plants
• Energy
• It took approximately 2 billion years for the bacteria to build up enough oxygen in the atmosphere to allow for the evolution of multi-cellular organisms. 
• Bacteria can be helpful and can be harmful

Summarise:

In the world, bacteria plays a big role in the atmosphere as well as in the human body. Bacteria can be harmful and some bacteria can be useful. A way bacteria is harmful is how it spoils food, making it unsafe for humans to consume. Bacteria can be helpful by helping our immune system get stronger and stay healthy. Bacteria is something that has been around for a long time, it has helped with growth of soil/plants and more. Bacteria infections can be treated with antibiotics but bacteria that aren't killed by the medicine, they become immune to the treatment which makes it untreatable. 

Zika Virus

This is an newspaper article about the Zika virus. 

Zika Virus continues to strike

With one bite from a mosquito which carries the Zika virus can cause you to become very ill and possibly die.

The Zika virus is a dangerous virus which is transmitted by mosquitoes. This virus has targeted pregnant woman. This causes their babies to have irregularly small head. This is called microcephaly. A pregnant woman that are bitten has a 1% chance of having a baby with this disorder. This also involves the baby's brain not to be fully developed that a means they will suffer some disorder with the body.

A team of neurologists from Brazil is working on making a vaccine which will hopefully help people that have been diagnosed with this disease. This team of neurologists is mainly focusing on the babies with microcephaly. They have been working on a vaccine that will help the babies enlarge their heads back to the normal size. They are also trying to figure out how they can fix the brain. The brain of the baby may suffer from feeding disorder, hearing loss, eyesight damage, and bone disorders.

I think that the Olympians should be aware of what is happening as the Zika virus is mostly in hot and tropical places. With the Olympic games in Rio De Janeiro, Olympians have more chance of catching the sickness due to the hot climate. The Olympians should be aware of their surroundings. They should always have mosquito repellent. But not too much that will ruin the atmosphere just enough to protect them and the people around them.