Public Health

Question 1

What can cause hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

Answer 1

Farmer's lung
Bird breeder's lung
Cheese worker's lung
Mollusc shell hypersensitivity 
Paprika splitter's lung

Question 2

What causes pneumoconiosis?

Answer 2

Absestosis
Silicosis
Coal worker’s lung
Berylliosis

Question 3

What is chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

Answer 3

Extensive fibrosis with honeycombing and air-trapping

Treatment is focused on antigen avoidance

Question 4

What causes asbestosis?

Answer 4

Pneumoconiosis

Fibrotic lung disease which is caused by an inhalation of asbestos fibers

Question 5

What are some environmental sources of lung disease?

Answer 5

Asbestos
Mould
Cooking smoke
Passive smoking
Nanoparticles 
Air/traffic pollution

Question 6

What are the components of photochemical smog?

Answer 6

Ozone (O3)
Nitrogen oxide (NO)
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

Question 7

What are the components of london smog?

Answer 7

Fly ash
Sulphur dioxide
Sodium chloride
Calcium sulphate particles from high sulfur coal

Question 8

What are the most common hazards in the atmosphere?

Answer 8

Sulphur dioxide
Nitrogen oxides
Particular matter 
Ozone and volatile organic compounds
Persistent organic compounds 
Benzene
Carbon monoxide
Lead and heavy metals

Question 9

What are the effects of traffic fumes?

Answer 9

Reduced lung growth in adolescents 
Increased rates of asthma and COPD
Increased rates of respipratory symptoms like wheeze, cough and breathlessness 
Low birth weight 
Appendicitis
Stroke

Question 10

What are dioxins?

Answer 10

A sub-set of persistent organic compounds that are associated with reproductive and immunological problems
It bioaccumulates in both people and animal fat