Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)

Question 1

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)

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Answer 1

a severe, sometimes fatal, respiratory disease in humans caused by infection with hantaviruses

Question 2

Signs and Symptoms

Answer 2

a. fever
b. fatigue
c. muscle aches (especially lower back & thighs)
d. unproductive cough
e. nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
f. increasingly severe shortness of breath
g. shock & death

Question 3

Causative Agent

Answer 3

hantavirus

Question 4

pathogenosis

Answer 4

1-taken up by phagocytes in lungs & transported to lymph nodes
2-virus enters circulation and then carried throughout the body and then infecting cells that line capillaries
3-capillaries leak large amounts of plasma into lungs

Question 5

capillaries leak large amounts of plasma into lungs causes :

Answer 5

suffocation
shock & death occur ~40% of cases

sa fic ation=اختناق

suff o cation

Question 6

transmission

Answer 6

1-inhale air containing dust contaminated with: urine, feces, or saliva of infected rodents
2-person to person transmission rare

Question 7

characteristic

Answer 7

emerging disease (1993)
zoonosis

za win o sis=حيواني المنشا

zoon osis

Question 8

Prevention

Answer 8

1-good ventilation
2-disinfect rodent areas
3-minimize exposure to rodents & contaminated dust

dis n fkt=تطهير / rohd nt

dis infect / rodent=قوارض