Outrageous ways to get people sick Flashcards
A crazy man wants to create a new influenza strain so everyone dies and he can rule the world. What kind of change needs to happen, and what animals could he use for it?
he wants to have an antigenic SHIFT; He’s gonna get some wild AQUATIC BIRDS (geese and ducks and swans) and then lots of PIGS; This will eventually make a surface protein change
A crazy lady breaks into a pharmacy and swaps all of the non-nucleoside analogs for sugar pills. What drugs are those? What diseases are gonna be happy?
foscarnet - HSF, HIV, (CMV in AIDS)
[nevirapine, efavirenz, delavirdine] = NNRTIs - part of HAART for HIV
you have a co-worker that you don’t like. You tell him that its best not to use insect repellent in the ROCKY MOUNTAINS. You hope that he gets what disease(s)?
he could maybe get…
lacrosse virus (bunyavirus)
Western equin encephalitis (alphavirus of togaviridae category)
You work in a lab, and someone stole your work. You give them a “gift” of extra lab rodents. What disease(s) did you actually give them?
sin nombre virus (hantavirus)
VEEV if there are mosquitos in the lab
A parent let their nasty kid (who recently had norovirus) loose in a ball pit at Burger King. How long until the other kids in there get sick?
24-48 hours.
A terrorist wants to get lots of people sick so they put viruses on envelopes. Which viruses will that work for? (8)
NAKED VIRUSES picornaviruses reoviridae norovirus astrovirus hepeviridae HPV adenovirus parvovirus
I heard a story once that people were sticking used needles in vending machines to get people sick. What diseases could you get from that (theoretically)
there are tons, but these are some good ones Hep B Hep C Hep D HIV maybe rabies
Lil wayne sneezed on the beat and the beat got sicker. What are the respiratory viruses that spread that way
Influenza, corona, Parainfluenza, Mumps, Measles, RVS, Rubella, Parvo
