# Infections and Their Routes of Transmission

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Chris Whitty FRS
- Year: 2021
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/infections)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Many of the major diseases of humans are transmitted by insect vectors. Malaria, sleeping sickness, typhus, dengue, Zika and plague are examples where mosquitoes, flies, fleas or ticks transmit. The advantage to the infection is that you can be infected by someone you have never met, often over wide distances. The advantage to humans is that we can act on the insect vector and break the cycle of transmission.

## Lectures

1. [Insect Vector-Borne Diseases](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-infections/3b47501e62d1) (YouTube)
2. [Food-and-Drink Borne Diseases](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-infections/b22102c9e2ba) (YouTube)
3. [Sexually Transmitted and Intravenous Infections](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-infections/d0f3d53a7cc1) (YouTube)
4. [Infections Which Use the Respiratory Route](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-infections/a3c07b8e0480) (YouTube)
5. [Infections That Use Touch to Transmit](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-infections/fb6c29591036) (YouTube)
6. [The Future of Health Globally](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-infections/eccd1425d791) (YouTube)