Infectious

Question 1

Anthrax

Answer 1

direct contact: skin abrasions, lung inhalation & digestive system

ciprofloxacin, doxycycline, penicillin

Question 2

Smallpox

Answer 2

air droplets & handling contaminated materials

vaccine availale

Question 3

botulism

Answer 3

paralytic illness
no person to person
in the soil & spread through the air or food (improperly canned food) or via a contaminated wound

Question 4

plague

Answer 4

-bitten by infected rodent or flea -ingestion of contaminated meat, or -handling an infected animal

streptomycin / gentamicin

vaccine available

Question 5

tularemia

Answer 5

deer fly or rabbit fever
-ticks, deer flies, or contact with an infected animal

streptomycin/gentamycin
ciprofloxacin/doxycyclin
lifelong immunity
vaccine available

Question 6

hemorrhagic fever

Answer 6

caused by: Marburg Lassa Junin Ebola Dengue
(carried by rodents, mosquitos or bats)

treatment: symptomatic