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What are vectors?

A

Living organisms that transmit disease

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What are the 4 main mosquito transmitted diseases?

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  1. Dengue virus
  2. West Nile Virus
  3. Zika virus
  4. Malaria
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Dengue Virus

Where is it found?

Infects?

Symptoms?

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  • Sub-tropical areas
  • Infects immune cells
  • Viremia (Viral blood infection)
  • Hemorrhagic fever (fever and bleeding from nose)
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West Nile Virus

  • Where is it found?
  • Transmission?
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  • South and midwest US
  • Mosquito feeds on infected bird; transfers to human
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West Nile Virus

What are the symptoms?

What does the virus target?

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  • Can cause meningitis
  • Targets neurons in brain (neurotropic)
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Zika virus

  • Where can it be found?
  • How is it transmitted?
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  • Florida (south US)
  • Virus injected into epithelial cells

Or

  • STD
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Zika virus

  • What are the symptoms in adults?
  • What are the symtpoms in fetus?
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  • adult= Can cause Guillain-barre syndrom (autoimmune syndrome)
  • fetus= microcephaly
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What two diseases do fleas cause?

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  1. Plague
  2. Endemic typhus
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Plague

How is it transmitted?

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Bubonic and septicemic= Flea bites human; infects phagocytes

Pneumonic= Infected droplets inhaled

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Plague

What are the symptoms of:

  1. Bubonic plague
  2. Septicemic plague
  3. pneumonic plague
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  1. Bubonic= Necrotic lymph nodes
  2. Septicemic= Necrotic skin lesions
  3. Pneumonic= Vomiting blood
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Endemic typhus

What region can it be found?

What type of microbe is it?

How is it transmitted?

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  • Southern US
  • Bacteria
  • Flea bites infected rodent (opposum)
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What are the symptoms of Endemic typhus?

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  • Fever for 5 days
  • After 12 days, rash appears
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What are the Lice transmitted diseases?

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  1. Epidemic typhus
  2. Trench fever
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Epidemic typhus

  • What microbe causes it?
  • How is it transmitted?
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  • Bacteria
  • Flying squirrel serves as reservoir; lice bites animal then human
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What are the symptoms of Epidemic typhus?

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  • Pointed rash at bite site
  • Low blood pressure
  • photophobia
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Trench fever

  • What microbe causes it?
  • Who does it commonly infect?
  • What does it infect?
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  • Bacteria
  • Common among homeless population
  • Infects endothelial cells
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What are the symptoms of trench fever?

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  • Relapsing fever
  • Ocular pain
  • Severe skin pain

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