NAVMED P 5010 CH 8

Question 1

WHAT DOES (DVECC) STAND FOR?

Answer 1

Disease Vector Ecology and Control Centers

Question 2

Refers to organisms, primarily arthropods and rodents

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DEFINITION OF A VECTOR

Question 3

Provides specialized support in the area of stored products pest management

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Entomologist

Question 4

Who must attend pest control training?

Answer 4

THE SEL MDR & PMT Corpsman

Question 5

How often is shipboard pest control training conducted?

Answer 5

Once a year.

Question 6

Is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest

Answer 6

Definition of Pesticides

Question 7

Acaricides, avicides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, molluscicides, nematocides, rodenticides

Answer 7

Are Shipboard Pesticides

Question 8

A substance used to control mites, scorpions, spiders, ticks and related organisms

Answer 8

Acaricides

Question 9

A substance used to control fungi

Answer 9

Fungicides

Question 10

A substance used to control un-desired vegetation

Answer 10

Herbicides

Question 11

A substance used to control insects, sometimes used in a broader sense to include the control of arthropods other than insects.

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Insecticide

Question 12

Used to control the adult stage of an insect

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Adulticide

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Used to control the larval stage of an insect.

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Larvicide

Question 14

Used against the egg stage of an insect.

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Ovicide

Question 15

Used to control snails and other mollusks

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Molluscicide

Question 16

Used to control rodents.

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Rodenticide

Question 17

Are compounds of mineral origin and mainly include arsenic, copper, mercury, sulfur or zinc

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Inorganic pesticides

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Are a group of synthetic organic compounds with one or more chlorine atoms. Chlordane, dieldrin, and DDT are examples

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Chlorinated hydrocarbons

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Synthetic compounds containing phosphorous

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Organophosphates

Question 20

Are synthetic compounds of salts or esters of carbamic acid. Carbaryl and propoxur are examples

Answer 20

Carbamates

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Are pesticides of plant origin. Pyrethrums and rotenone are examples.

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Botanical

Question 22

They are effective for penetrating cracks and crevices. They may be used around electrical equipment or power

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Oil Solutions

Question 23

Consists of droplets of an emulsifiable pesticide dispersed in a diluent in such a way as to prevent separation of the two components

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Emulsions

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Suspension of liquid or solid particles in air

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Aerosols

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Used only in airtight spaces which prevent dissipation

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Gases and Vapors

Question 26

What is a Simulium spp.?

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Black Fly

Question 27

What is Phlebotomus spp.?

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Sand Fly

Question 28

What is Glossina spp.?

Answer 28

Tsetse Fly

Question 29

What is a (Sarcophagi and Wohlfahrtia)?

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Flesh Fly

Question 30

What is a Musca domestics?

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A House fly

Question 31

What is Moderately Toxic? (How much does it take to administer death)

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50-500 mg/kg

Question 32

What is a Periplaneta americana?

Answer 32

American cockroach

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What is a Supella longipalpa?

Answer 33

Brown-banded cockroach

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What is a Blatella germanica?

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German Cockroach

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Are responsible for the transmission of louse-borne typhus, trench fever and louse-borne relapsing fever

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Human Lice

Question 36

Generally most frequently associated with disease transmission, mosquitoes are

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Aedes, Anopheles and Culex

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First in importance among the insects that transmit disease to man

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Mosquitoes

Question 38

What is a Hippelates?

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Eye gnat

Question 39

What is a Tabanus, Chrysops, etc.?

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Horse and Deer Fly

Question 40

What is a Periplaneta australasiae?

Answer 40

Australian cockroach

Question 41

They are known to transmit diseases to man and animals.

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Ticks

Question 42

What is Rhipicephalus sanguineus?

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The brown dog tick

Question 43

What is Xenopsylla cheopis?

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The oriental rat flea

Question 44

What vector transmits the Plague?

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The oriental rat flea

Question 45

What is Tunga Penetrans?

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Burrowing flea

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What flea needs an animal hosts to breed?

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Sand Flea

Question 47

What is a Rattus norvegicus?

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The Norway, brown or gray rat,

Question 48

What is Rattus rattus alexandrines?

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The Roof rat

Question 49

How does the Navy prevent rodents from boarding ships?

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Rat Guards

Question 50

What is the minimum diameter of a rat guard?

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36 in diameter

Question 51

Where should the rat guard be mounted?

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At least 6 feet from the closet point on shore or ship.

Question 52

What certifies a Navy vessel that there is no rats, on-board?

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Deratization Certification

Question 53

Neurotoxic come from what?

Answer 53

black widow spiders

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Cytolytic come from what?

Answer 54

brown recluse spider

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Hemolytic come from what?

Answer 55

horse flies

Question 56

Are venomous arachnids that rarely sting man, and then, only when provoked?

Answer 56

Scorpions