Food Borne and Emerging Diseases

Question 1

custard filled pastry, egg, tuna fish salad, 2-4 hours

Answer 1

staph (+)

Question 2

improperly canned vegetables, smoked fish, 18-26 hours

Answer 2

botulism (+)

Question 3

unpasteurized milk products, hot dogs, lunch meats, up to 2 weeks

Answer 3

Listeria (+)

Question 4

0157:H7, undercooked meat, vegetables, fruit exposed to fecal, up to 2 days (-)

Answer 4

E. coli

Question 5

poultry, meats and eggs, 12-48 hours (-); foster farms chicken nationwide, Firefly restaurant (LV, NV), imported cucumbers from Mexico (St Paul, MN)

Answer 5

Salmonella

Question 6

foods and water, 1-2 days (-)

Answer 6

Shigella

Question 7

Seafood and water, 1-5 days (-)

Answer 7

Cholera

Question 8

undercooked meat, few hours to 3 weeks (-)

Answer 8

Francisella tularensis

Question 9

raw milk, TB, months to years

Answer 9

Mycobacterium bovis

Question 10

emerging disease, mosquito spread, sudden fever, severe HA, seizures, coma, 50% die

Answer 10

Eastern Equine Encephalitis

Question 11

emerging disease, mosquito spread, fever, HA, stiff neck, vomiting, 3% die (elderly infants)

Answer 11

Western Equine Encephalitis

Question 12

emerging disease, mosquito spread, fever, HA, can cause encephalitis

Answer 12

West Nile

Question 13

emerging disease, mosquito spread, fever, HA encephalitis, mostly elderly

Answer 13

St Louis Encephalitis

Question 14

emerging disease, mosquito spread, fever, HA, abdominal pain, encephalitis

Answer 14

CA Encephalitis

Question 15

emerging disease, mosquito spread, causes bleeding and encephalitis

Answer 15

Rift Valley Fever

Question 16

emerging disease, mosquito spread, fever, rash, HA known as “dengue triangle” (Key West, FL 42 cases in 2010)

Answer 16

Dengue Fever

Question 17

emerging disease, mosquito spread, fever, HA, nose bleeds

Answer 17

Yellow Fever

Question 18

Emerging disease, TICK spread, fever, HA, chills, eye pain

Answer 18

CO tick fever

Question 19

Emerging disease, TICK spread, bullseye rash

Answer 19

Lyme disease

Question 20

Emerging disease, TICK spread, rash hands, feet

Answer 20

Rocky mountain spotted fever

Question 21

Re-Emerging diseases

Answer 21

TB, smallpox, malaria, mumps

Question 22

Emerging disease aka norwalk virus, 67% of all known foodborn illness in US. Fecal contamination food/water or direct person to person. Common in salad, sandwhiches, ice, cold cuts, raw/undercooked oysters and clams, 1-2 day incubation

Answer 22

Norovirus

Question 23

Emerging disease, H5N1, flu like symptoms, can lead to complications and death

Answer 23

Avian influenza (bird flu)

Question 24

Emerging disease, maculopapular rash

Answer 24

Scrub typhus (tsutsugamushi fever)

Question 25

Emerging disease, encephalitis, respiratory, fatal, carried by pigs, bats

Answer 25

Nipah fever

Question 26

emerging disease, rabies like, leads to death

Answer 26

Lyssa virus

Question 27

emerging disease, high fever, death, encephalitis from mosquito bites

Answer 27

Chandipura virus

Question 28

Biodefense list - Category A

Answer 28

anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox, tularemia, viral hemorrhagic fevers, arenaviruses (Lassa fever), Bunya viruses (Hanta) Flaviruses (Dengue) and Filoviruses (Ebola)