ESSAY QUESTIONS 1

Question 1

Describe the route of HIV transmission and the viral cellular process that can lead to aquired immune deficiency(AIDS).

Answer 1

HIV is transmitted through the process of mitosis. It hides behind cells until body gets weak, masks itself as a cell, and then multiplies.

Question 2

Explain the 4 humors and significance in the 12th and 19th centuries.
Who created it?

Answer 2

• Four humored are blood, phlegm, Black Bile, and yellow Bile.
• founded by the father of medicine, Hippocrates.
• shows body is out of balance and is cured by the process of bloodletting.

Question 3

What is meant by chain of infection?
How does it relate to hospital infection control?
How does it need to be broken?
How is it accomplished?

Answer 3

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Question 4

List 5 modes of TRANSMISSION and explain.

Answer 4

• airborne (sneezing/coughing)
• contact ( touching objects that were sneezed/coughed on)
• droplet (sneezing)
• vector (insect)
• vehicle (contaminated food/drink)

Question 5

Name ways BIOHAZARD can get into your body.

Answer 5

• airborne
• ingestion
• Non-intact skin
• Percutaneously
• permucosal