Exam 3 - Community Disease and outbreak

Question 1

Agent - Infectivity

Answer 1

ability to enter and multiply within the hose

Question 2

Agent - Pathogenicity

Answer 2

agent’s ability to produce specific clinical reaction after infection occurs

clinical signs and symptoms

Question 3

Agent - Virulence

Answer 3

Ability of agent to cause disease - due to biological makeup

like how HIV causes AIDS

Question 4

Agent - Toxicity

Answer 4

ability to produce toxins/poisonous reaction

Question 5

Agent - Invasiveness

Answer 5

ability to penetrate and spread

Question 6

Agent - Antigenicity

Answer 6

agent’s ability to create an immune response

Question 7

Host - Immunity

Answer 7

Natural: congenital, innate ability to fight

Acquired: comes from exposure

Active acquired: vaccine

Passive acquired: passed on from source (parent/transfusion)

Herd immunity:

Question 8

Bioterrorism

Answer 8

intentional release of viruses bacteria

high mortality
????????????????????

Question 9

Smallpox

Answer 9

1979 eradicated

fever

two days later, after fever decreasing

rash, spots, on face first

Question 10

Measles

Answer 10

fever, runny nose, sneezing, koplik spots

once got it, immune forever

Question 11

Rubella

Answer 11

mild fever, lymph nodes, pink rash

children may not have symptoms

target pop is preggos since transmission can cause intrauterine death

MMR

Question 12

Whooping cough

Answer 12

mild URI
progress to irritating cough

sudden and uncontrolled maybe

coughs occur without breath, whoop

airborne and highly contagious

preggos - can be fatal to fetus

if preggo gets antivirus, passes to fetus for 2-months, when they can be vaccinated

Question 13

Lots of stuff that she didn’t go over in class