Communicable Diseases And Bloodboorne Pathogens

Question 0

Other potentially infectious materials (OPIM) include:

Answer 0

Pretty much any human bodily fluid

Question 1

What does parenteral mean?

Answer 1

Entry into the body by any other route than the mouth/digestive system.

Typically this takes the form of needlesticks, cuts, human bites that break skin and abrasions

Question 2

Hepatitis B is a germ that attacks your liver.

It can live in a dry environment for ____ days.

It is _____ times easier to catch than HIV.

Answer 2

Can live for 7 days

100 times easier to catch than HIV.

Question 3

What are the 3 main ways to get HEP B?

Answer 3

1. Sex w/ out condoms
2. Being born
3. Sharing needles and syringes.

30% have no signs or symptoms

9/10 recover

Question 4

HEP C Is another liver disease.

How is it spread?

Answer 4

By contact with the blood of a infected person

Question 5

In about ____% of the cases HEP C is permanent.

Answer 5

85%

Hep C is the number one cause of liver transplants in the US.

Question 6

HIV is the virus that causes _____, which attacks the immune system.

Answer 6

AIDS

Question 7

How is HIV passed?

Answer 7

Through blood to blood and sexual contact

Question 8

HIV can live in a dry environment for ________…

Answer 8

Only a few hours.

Question 9

What are the symptoms of HIV?

Answer 9

• fatigue
• fever, chills, sweats
• loss of appetite and weight
• pink/purple blotches/bumps
• white spots in the mouth
• diarrhea
• dry cough

Question 10

What bodily fluids spread HIV?

Answer 10

• blood
• semen
• vaginal fluid
• breast milk
• other bodily fluids containing blood

Question 11

What is the definition of a communicable disease?

Answer 11

And infectious disease transmissible by direct contact from affected individual or the individual’s discharges or by indirect means

Question 12

Meningitis is an illness in which there is inflammation of the tissues that cover the brain and spinal cord.

What are the symptoms?

Answer 12

• fever
• severe headache
• stiff neck
• bright lights hurt eyes
• drowsiness or confusion
• nausea and vomiting

Question 13

What are the symptoms of tuberculosis?

Answer 13

It can attack any part of your body, but usually attacks the lungs.

Symptoms:

• weakness
• weight loss
• fever
• no appetite
• chills and sweating
• bad cough, pain in chest, coughing blood (if TB affected the lungs)

Question 14

What are 2 airborne pathogens?

Answer 14

Meningitis and tuberculosis

Question 15

What’s HEP A?

Answer 15

It’s a liver disease.

Transmitted through fecal – oral and food/water born outbreaks