Ch6 biological hazards

Question 1

what occupation at highest risk when handling blood and bodily fluids

Answer 1

correctional healthcare workers (higher prevalence blood borne diseases and injury risk)

Question 2

3 types of anthrax

Answer 2

cutaneous (most common), inhalation, gastrointestinal

Question 3

most common route of exposure to blood/bodily fluids

Answer 3

percutaneous injuries (penetration of skin) 80%

Question 4

define a zoonotic disease

Answer 4

infection or infectious disease transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans

Question 5

what is woolsorters disease

Answer 5

pulmonary form of anthrax from inhalation of spores in fleece

Question 6

major source of human rabies in US vs worldwide

Answer 6

US=rabid Bats

World= stray dogs

Question 7

early vs late signs of rabies

Answer 7

early- apprehension, fever, malaise, headache

late- paralysis, hallucinations, swallowing difficulty, hydrophobia

Question 8

how psittacosis is transmitted

Answer 8

bird droppings

Question 9

examples of tick-borne diseases

Answer 9

lyme, rocky mountain spotted fever, relapsing fever, tularemia

Question 10

examples of mosquito-borne diseases

Answer 10

encephalitis, dengue fever, WNV

Question 11

what is coccidiomycosis

Answer 11

valley fever, caused by fungus, workers exposed to dust from windblown soil in endemic areas

Question 12

what is histoplasmosis

Answer 12

caused by fungus, excreted by bird and bat droppings, risk when demolishing old houses

Question 13

how tuberculosis is spread

Answer 13

aerosolized droplets