Communicable Diseases

Question 1

What is a communicable disease

Answer 1

Illness due to infectious agent that can go from host to host

Question 2

T/F

Communicable diseases have been a danger to mankind from beginning of time

Answer 2

true

Question 3

How many died from smallpox?

Answer 3

300 million

- small pox scar

Question 4

How many died from the black death

Answer 4

half of europe

Question 5

What movie had cholera in it

Answer 5

Secret garden

Question 6

How we now control Communicable Diseases

Answer 6

Sanitation - wasn’t always obvious

Medicine - vaccine and antibiotics

Improved nutrition - helps w line of defense against
disease. fruits and veggies were not normal back then

Education - on how to stay healthy and treat illness

Question 7

Are all communicable diseases under control?

Answer 7

No - we have perceived control

Question 8

Diseases that re-emerge

Answer 8

Ebola, Zika, Corona

Question 9

Can bioterrorism be a threat to mankind

Answer 9

yes

Question 10

How do antibiotics play a role in the re-emerging diseases

Answer 10

Well with antibiotics helping us, they also allow for resistance
- like gonorrhea

Question 11

How we continue to control CD’s

Answer 11

Surveillance 
Reporting
Isolation/quarantine
Drugs
Education

Question 12

Who isolates and who quarantines

Answer 12

Isolate diseased person

Quarantine everyone else

Question 13

Do all diseases get reported immediately?

Answer 13

No but small pox definitely does

Question 14

How do we mainly control diseases

Answer 14

immunizations

Question 15

Live vaccine

Answer 15

varicella

Question 16

why is hpv vaccine controversial

Answer 16

bc some think it will make kids be more sexually active

Question 17

Immunizations sites

Answer 17

IM or SQ

Question 18

How often to check fridge for immunizations

How long do they need to be refrigerated

temp of freezer

Answer 18

twice a day

35-46 hrs

below 5

Question 19

Norovirus

Transmission

Control

Answer 19

Noravirus

Oral-fecal route, person to person contact, and food/water… only 18 particles needed to infect

Hygiene & food safety prep

Question 20

Norovirus symptoms

Answer 20

n/v
watery diarrhea
abdominal cramps
low grade fever

Question 21

Norovirus treatment

Answer 21

Fluid replacement due to water loss

Question 22

How does Norovirus survive?

Breeding place for Norovirus?

Answer 22

On hard surfaces.
Can stay there for 4 weeks.
Can withstand 140 F temp

Cruise ships

Question 23

Salmonella

transmission

Incubation

Answer 23

Salmonella

Uncooked foods like eggs, poultry, and fish

Incubation of 6 hrs to 6 days

Question 24

Salmonella symptoms

Answer 24

Diarrhea
stomach cramps
Achy joints

Question 25

Salmonella treatment & control

Answer 25

Extra fluids for water loss as well

Food safety & no kissing animals lol

Question 26

Shigella host

Answer 26

Primates - human or nonhuman

Question 27

Shigella

transmission

incubation

Answer 27

Shigella

sex, fecal, oral

1-2 days

Question 28

Shigella symptoms

Answer 28

Diarrhea
Cramps
fever

Question 29

Shigella control

Answer 29

Hygiene and hand washing

Question 30

E.coli is a __

Answer 30

toxin that is on contaminated food

Question 31

E. coli

incubation

Answer 31

E. coli

3-8 days

Question 32

E. coli symptoms

Answer 32

Blood in stool
abdominal cramps
fever
vomiting

Question 33

How to destroy E. coli

Answer 33

Cook food correctly. 44F-122F
Wash hands

• common in ground beef from cows

Question 34

Lice

Answer 34

parasite pediculus human capitis

preschoolers and school aged kids get it

direct or object contact

9-12 days to mature and then can live for 30 days w blood. without blood, die 1-2 days.

intense itching. no sleep from it

tx- pediculosides or olive oil
- dont use bug spray , chemical burns

control - clean everything in hot water and don’t lay around someone who has it

Question 35

Hep A
vs
Hep B &C

Answer 35

Hep a more food or fecal oral

Hep B & C is more from bodily fluids and blood

symptoms: fatigue, poor appetite, stomach pain, jaundice

Question 36

std

Answer 36

personal behaviors

gonorrhea in women no symptoms

even well groomed people can have it

Question 37

Chlamydia trachomatis

Answer 37

Higher reporter rates

vaginal, oral, anal

tx isn’t prevention

17-21 days

painful urination, vaginal discharge, penile discharge, bleeding in between periods or after sex. testicular pain

Question 38

Gonorrhea

Answer 38

Bacterium

15-24 years old age range often

if a a child has it, it is sex abuse

2-7 days so you know who gave it to you

purulent discharge, dysuria, urethritis and men can tell right away. may think its a uti

antibiotic tx