Disease Detectives Flashcards
Who made the first rabies vaccine?
Louis Pasteur
Who made the first polio vaccine?
Jonas Salk
Who made the first vaccine?
Dr. Edward Jenner
Spread by the tsetse fly; symptoms include fatigue, fever, head/muscle aches. Can be fatal, treated by drugs.
African Typanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness)
Usually infects birds, causes eye infections and flu like symptoms. Can be fatal, treated by drugs.
Avian flu
Spread by contact with kissing bugs, symptoms don’t appear immediately but show up as swelling or redness around the bite. Treated by medications.
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis)
Spread by consuming anything contaminated with it. Symptoms are diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting. Treated by IV fluids, rehydration, and antibiotics.
Cholera
What is PulseNet?
A national laboratory network run by the CDC that uses fingerprints of bacteria to detect outbreaks.
An infectious disease that is transmissible from animals to humans.
Zoonosis
Showing no signs or symptoms, usually a carrier of a disease.
Asymptomatic
Rate of disease
Morbidity
Rate of death
Mortality
Three major forms of plague?
Bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic
A microbial organism with the ability to cause disease.
Agent
A place where agents can thrive and reproduce.
Reservoir
