Final prep (specifically questions from final review)

Question 1

True or False: Two different strands of influenza virus can mutate with each other to form a new influenza virus strand

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Clinical signs of a Yersinia pestis infection

Answer 2

Blackened Lymph nodes and aches, exhaustion

Question 3

The reservoir host for this disease is the deer mouse

Answer 3

Hantavirus

Question 4

Common worm infections in a pet dog or cat

Answer 4

All of the above
(Can cause larval migrans in human and cause blindness
*Are easily treated with veterinary prescribed medications
*Is easily transmitted from the environment to pet dogs and cats
*Can infect people who touch areas contaminated with animal feces

Question 5

The acronym PPE refers to

Answer 5

Personal Protective Equipment

Question 6

Hantavirus in the USA

Answer 6

Aerosolizes and causes acute pulmonary failure

Question 7

This bacterium is commonly carried by rodents and excreted in urine

Answer 7

Leptospirosis

Question 8

Recommended safety for zoo personnel includes

Answer 8

Vaccine recommendations such as tetanus, hepatitis, influenza, and sometimes rabies
AND
appropriate PPE

Question 9

In regards to influenza

Answer 9

There are strains that can affect humans that originated in animals
AND
more than one strain of flu virus can infect the same animal and create a new strain

Question 10

Human herpes 1 virus (cold sore) in relation to animals

Answer 10

Lethal to New World primates such as marmosets

Question 11

OSHA

Answer 11

government agency responsible to ensuring health and safety of employees

Question 12

Who is considered more susceptible to zoonotic diseases

Answer 12

All of the above
(Children 5 and under
*Adults older than 65
*Immunocompromised people (ie HIV)

Question 13

If an animal has a disease, does not become ill, but is capable of transmitting the disease to humans, that animal is

Answer 13

resevoir host

Question 14

CDC

Answer 14

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Question 15

In regards to E. Coli

Answer 15

is a type of enteric bacteria

Question 16

This bacterium is found in reproductive tissues of affected animals (ie ruminants)

Answer 16

Brucella bovis

Question 17

This bacteria is endemic to the USA, is often seen in cattle, and has a 90% fatality rate when inhaled

Answer 17

Bacillus anthrax

Question 18

Rabies virus

Answer 18

All mammals are susceptible
AND
Once an animal or human shows clinical signs of rabies virus, they usually die within 10 days

Question 19

The BEST way to clean rodent nesting material is

Answer 19

Wearing PPE, saturate nesting material with disinfectant and throw directly into trash

Question 20

This disease has three different forms known as cutaneous, inhaled, gastrointestinal (ingested)

Answer 20

Bacillus anthrax

Question 21

Giardiasis

Answer 21

All of the above
(Can be found in a wide variety of animals and humans
*Can be treated with antibiotics
*Not all infected animals or humans develop disease

Question 22

In regards to Tuberculosis, skin testing

Answer 22

A positive test in a human means that they have been exposed to tuberculosis

Question 23

What are measures taken to reduce transmission of zoonotic disease

Answer 23

All of the above
(Wear PPE, Education, Pasteurize milk)

Question 24

The bubonic plague is transmitted by

Answer 24

Fleas