P-5010 CH-8 Medical Entomology & Pest Control Technology

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WHAT IS CHAPTER 8 OF THE MANUAL OF NAVAL PREVENTIVE MEDICINE?

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MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY AND PEST CONTROL TECHNOLOGY

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WHAT DOES (DVECC) STAND FOR?

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Disease Vector Ecology and Control Centers

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WHAT DOES (DVECC) STAND FOR?

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Disease Vector Ecology and Control Centers

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Refers to organisms, primarily arthropods and rodents

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DEFINITION OF A VECTOR

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Who must attend pest control training?

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THE SEL MDR & PMT Corpsman

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How often is shipboard pest control training conducted?

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Once a year

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

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Definition of Pesticides

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

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Are Shipboard Pesticides

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

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Acaricides

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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

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Used against the egg stage of an insect.

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Ovicide

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Used to control rodents.

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Rodenticide

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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

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

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Carbamates

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

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Botanical

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

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Oil Solutions

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

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Emulsions

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Are preparations of pesticide impregnated into particles of highly\nabsorptive clays and earths which are graded by sizes ranging from coarse pebble–like pellets to those with a consistency of fine sand

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Granules/Pellets

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This miscellaneous grouping includes the application of pesticides by brush or roller, as a paste, grease, or cream, or as solid formulations which vaporize slowly in air.

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Nonparticle pesticides.

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Are materials that enhance the effectiveness of basic toxicant chemicals by altering their physical or chemical characteristics

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Additives

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Used only in airtight spaces which prevent dissipation

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Gases and Vapors

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Suspension of liquid or solid particles in air

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Aerosols

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Are dispersed particles in which the particles are intermediate in size

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Mists

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Spray droplets are considered to be from 100 to 400 microns in diameter

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Fine Sprays

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Consist of droplets over 400 microns in diameter

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Coarse Sprays

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

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0–50 mg/kg

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

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50–500 mg/kg

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What is a Musca domestics?

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A House fly

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What is a (Calliphora, Chrysomya, Lucilia, Phaenicia, Phormia, etc.)?

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Blow Fly Blow flies lay eggs in wounds causing myiasis

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What is a (Sarcophagi and Wohlfahrtia)?

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Flesh Fly

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What is Glossina spp.?

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Tsetse Fly cleaver shaped pattern in the wing Transmits African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)

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What is Phlebotomus spp.?

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Sand Fly

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What is a Simulium spp.?

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Black Fly

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What is a Tabanus, Chrysops, etc.?

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Horse and Deer Fly

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First in importance among the insects that transmit disease to man

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Mosquitoes

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Generally most frequently associated with disease transmission, mosquitoes are

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Aedes, Anopheles and Culex

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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

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Are probably the most common and persistently troublesome arthropod\npest encountered indoors

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Cockroaches

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What is a Blatella germanica?

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German Cockroach | Most common indoor species

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What is a Supella longipalpa?

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Brown–banded cockroach

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What is a Periplaneta americana?

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American cockroach | Long fecal pellets

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What is a Periplaneta australasiae?

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Australian cockroach | Has yellow strip on back; liquid fecal droppings

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They are known to transmit diseases to man and animals.

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Ticks

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Which vectors transmits Q fever and endemic relapsing fever, and Lyme disease?

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Ticks

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What is Xenopsylla cheopis?

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The oriental rat flea | Transmits Plague

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What vector transmits the Plague?

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The oriental rat flea

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What vector causes ulcerating lesions on the feet of man and of animals?

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Burrowing flea

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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

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What vectors may serve as reservoirs for plague, endemic typhus, tularemia and other debilitating diseases?

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Rodents such as rats, mice and\nground squirrels

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What vector causes the most damage from contamination of supplies?

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Rodents

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What is a Rattus norvegicus?

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The Norway, brown or gray rat, Diet consists of meat & fish Tail shorter than length of body

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What is Rattus rattus alexandrines?

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The Roof rat Diet consists of fruits & vegetables Tail longer than length of body

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What is Mus musculus?

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The house rat

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What are the measurements for rodent proofing all necessary openings for all structures that are built?

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28 gauge 95 mm (3/8 in) mesh galvanized hardware

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How does the Navy prevent rodents from boarding ships?

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Rat Guards

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What is the minimum diameter of a rat guard?

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36 in diameter

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Where should the rat guard be mounted?

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

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

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Deratization Certification

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Where are the requirements for Deratization certification found?

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NAVMEDCOMINST 6250.7

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Vesicating come from what?

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blister beetles

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Cytolytic come from what?

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brown recluse spider

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Hemolytic come from what?

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horse flies

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Are fast moving, dorso–ventrally flat, elongate arthropods having one pair of legs per body segment.

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Centipedes

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These arthropods are slow moving, rounded, elongated arthropods with two pairs of legs per body segment

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Millipedes

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

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Scorpions

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Considered dangerous because of the hemolytic and neurotoxic\nvenom properties

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Scorpions

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Tachypnea, tachycardia, nausea, Glycosuria, epigastric pain and tenderness, excessive salivation, slurred speech, tissue discoloration and necrosis, are what?

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Scorpion bites

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May cause mild to severe contact dermatitis, nodular conjunctivitis, respiratory pain, headache and convulsions

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Caterpillars

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Cockroach Bait stations

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replace every 2 months

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Mites

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Transmit Scrub Typhus Larval stage of mites = chiggers Scabies = intense itching, especially at night Kill with Lindane 1%

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 Rat guards 36 inches in diameter & at least ___ feet from closest point on shore or ship

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6

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Lice

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Pediculus humanus capitus = Head louse Pediculus humanus humanus = Body louse Pediculus pubis = Crab louse

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blood sucking with painful bite.

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Stable Fly | Suspected of transmitting anthrax & tularemia

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Flies transmit?

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Cholera, dysentery, and typhoid fever

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Malaria, infection agent is PLASMODIUM. What four types?

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Falciparum = Most deadly Ovale = Occurs in West Africa Malariae Vivax

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Mosquitoes & Diseases

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Yellow Fever – Aedes aegypti Dengue Fever – Aedes Filariasis – Culex