INTERNATIONAL QUARANTINABLE DISEASES Flashcards
OPNAVINST 6210.2
Quarantine Regulations of the Navy
BUMEDINST 6210.4
Ship Sanitation Certificate Program
purpose of quarantine regulations
The movement of DoD equipment and DoD personnel entering or departing the United States or foreign countries/ports may introduce undesirable non-native species and disseminate communicable diseases.
Quarantinable Diseases
(1) Cholera
(2) Diphtheria
(3) Infectious Tuberculosis
(4) Plague
(5) Smallpox
(6) Yellow Fever
(7) Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
(8) SARS
(9) Influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic
What Disease
(1) An acute, diarrheal illness caused by infection of the intestine with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
(2) The infection is often mild or without symptoms, but sometimes it can be severe.
(3) Approximately one in 20 infected persons have severe disease characterized by profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, and leg cramps.
(4) In an epidemic, the source of the contamination is usually the feces of an infected person, and can spread rapidly in areas with inadequate treatment of sewage and drinking water.
(6) Shellfish eaten raw have been a source of this disease
Cholera
Methods of control Cholera
(1) Active immunization with oral vaccines provide high levels of protection for several months.
(2) Case report universally required by World Health Organization (WHO) and Medical Event Report (MER).
(3) Isolation with enteric precautions of severely-ill patients, hand-washing and fly control.
(4) Concurrent disinfection of feces and vomitus of linens and articles used by patients
What disease
(1) An infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis.
(2) People usually get this from being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the the disease
bacterium or by handling an infected animal.
(3) Modern antibiotics are effective against this, but if an infected person is not treated promptly, the disease is likely to cause illness or death.
Plague
What form of plague
(a) Lymphadenitis develops in lymph nodes receiving drainage from the site of the flea bite, where there may be an initial lesion.
(b) Fever is usually present.
Bubonic
What type of plague
(a) Extensive involvement of lungs, sputum loaded with causative agent.
(b) Respiratory droplets may serve as source of propagation, leading to outbreaks or epidemics
Pneumonic
Plague Methods of control
Reduce the likelihood of people being bitten by fleas, having
contact with infective tissues or exudates, or exposure to patients with pneumonic plague.
What Disease
(1) Very rare cause of illness in travelers, but most countries have regulations and requirements for yellow fever vaccination that must be met prior to entering the country.
(2) A viral disease transmitted between humans by a mosquito. (Aedes Egypti)
Yellow fever
Yellow Fever methods of controll
-use of insect repellent, protective clothing, and mosquito netting to avoid mosquito bites.
-Immunization
Adults and children over __ Months can have the Yellow fever vaccine
9
Yellow fever vaccine
A single dose confers immunity lasting how long
10 years
What disease
-Systemic viral disease generally presenting with a characteristic skin eruption within 2-4 days.
-Infection usually occurred via the respiratory tract (droplet spread) or skin inoculation.
-The last naturally acquired case of smallpox in the world occurred in October 1977 in Somalia.
Small pox
