(Re)Emerging Diseases Flashcards
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Trends in infectious disease
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- Receded in Western countries 20th century d/t urban sanitation, improved housing, personal hygiene, antisepsis & vaccination
- Antibiotics further suppressed morbidity & mortality
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Trends since last quarter of 20th century
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Unusually large number- Rotavirus, Cryptosporidiosis, HIV/AIDS, Hantaviraus, Lyme disease, Legionellosis, Hepatitis C
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Define re-emerging infectious disease
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Infectious agents that have been known for some time, had fallen to such low levels that they were no longer considered public health problems & are now showing upward trends in incidence or prevalence worldwide
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Define emerging infectious disease
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Newly identified & previously unknown infectious agents that cause public health problems either locally or internationally
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Factors contributing to emergence
-Agent
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- Evolution of pathogenic infectious agents (microbial adaptation & change)
- Development of resistance to drugs
- Resistance of vectors to pesticides
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Factors contributing to emergence
-Host
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- Human demographic change (inhabiting new areas)
- Human behavior (sexual & drug use)
- Human susceptibility to infection (Immunosuppression)
- Poverty & social inequality
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Factors contributing to emergence
-Environment
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- Climate & changing ecosystems
- Economic development & Land use (urbanization, deforestation)
- Technology & industry (food processing & handling)
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Other factors contributing to emergence
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- International travel & commerce
- Breakdown of public health measure (war, unrest, overcrowding)
- Deterioration in surveillance systems (lack of political will)
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List the factors influencing transmission of infectious agents from animals to humans
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- > 2/3rd emerging infections originate from animals- wild & domestic
- Emerging Influenza infections in Humans associated with Geese, Chickens & Pigs
- Animal displacement in search of food after deforestation/climate change
- Humans themselves penetrate/ modify unpopulated regions- come closer to animal reservoirs/ vectors (Yellow fever, Malaria)
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What climate and environmental changes influence emergence?
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- Deforestation forces animals into closer human contact- increased possibility for agents to breach species barrier between animals & humans
- El Nino- Triggers natural disasters & related outbreaks of infectious diseases (Malaria, Cholera)
- Global warming- spread of Malaria, Dengue
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How does poverty, neglect, and health infrastructure affect emergence?
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- Poor populations are major reservoir & source of continued transmission
- Poverty- Malnutrition- Severe infectious disease cycle
- Lack of funding, Poor prioritization of health funds, Misplaced in curative rather than preventive infrastructure
- Failure to develop adequate health delivery systems
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What role does uncontrolled urbanization and population displacement play in emergence?
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- Growth of densely populated cities- substandard housing, unsafe water, poor sanitation, overcrowding, indoor air pollution (>10% preventable ill health)
- Problem of refugees & displaced persons
- Diarrheal & Intestinal parasitic disease, Lyme disease- Changes in ecology, increasing deer populations, suburban migration of population
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What human behaviors affect emergence?
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- Unsafe sexual practices (HIV, Gonorrhea, Syphilis)
- Changes in agricultural & food production patterns- food-borne infectious agents (E. coli)
- Increased international travel (Influenza)
- Outdoor activity
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What are the causes of antimicrobial drug resistance?
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- Wrong prescribing practices
- Non-adherence by patients
- Counterfeit drugs
- Loss of effectiveness seen in: community-acquired (TB, pneumococcal) & hospital-acquired (enterococcal, staphylococcal) as well as in antiviral (HIV, antiprotozoal (malaria), antifungal
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What are the consequences of antimicrobial drug resistance?
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- Prolonged hospital admissions
- Higher death rates from infections
- Requires more expensive, more toxic drugs
- Higher health care costs
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Causative organism of anthrax
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Bacillus anthracis - gram positive, rod-shaped bacteria
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Where is anthrax found?
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Found naturally in soil and commonly affects domestic and wild animals around the world
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How are animals/people infected with anthrax?
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- Rarely, people can get sick with anthrax if they come in contact with infected animals or contaminated animal products
- Animals can become infected when they breathe in or ingest spores contaminated in soil, plants, or water
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Anthrax infection in humans
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- Human get infected when anthrax spores get into the body
- This can happen when people breathe in spores, eat food or drink contaminated with spores, or get spores in a cut or scrape in the skin
- It is very uncommon for people in the US to get infected with anthrax
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Where is anthrax more common?
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In developing countries and countries that do not have veterinary public health programs that routinely vaccinate animals against anthrax
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Explain the importance of anthrax in spore form.
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- When anthrax is disseminated as a biological weapon, it is disseminated as the spore form
- When that spore enters either an open wound in the skin, the gastrointestinal tract, or the lung of a victim, it undergoes germination into the bacillus form as mentioned above
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Where does germination and multiplication of anthrax occur in humans?
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- Especially in the inhalational form, this germination takes place in a macrophage
- Anthrax is able to resist the destruction by macrophages
- Once within this macrophage it is transported to a regional lymph nodes
- Once the macrophage arrives at the lymph node the anthrax multiplies
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What toxins are produced after anthrax multiplies?
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- Once it multiplies it produces two toxins, one called edema toxin and one called lethal toxin
- These toxins cause massive amounts of tissue edema as well as tissue necrosis
- *The growth of this bacteria, and the production of these toxins, produces the clinical picture of anthrax, and the eventual death of the patient with inhalational anthrax
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Define anthrax toxemia
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Toxemia is when the amount of anthrax toxin in the victim is enough to cause severe illness and/or death
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List the 3 anthrax clinical syndromes
1. Cutaneous
2. Gastrointestinal
3. Inhalational
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Etiology of the 3 anthrax clinical syndromes
- Typically the inhalation and GI forms carry a very high mortality rate
- The cutaneous form of anthrax, which is the much more common and natural form of anthrax, typically has a very low mortality with antibiotic treatment
- If left untreated, cutaneous anthrax can progress to creating a generalized infection that can also be fatal (approximately 20%)
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How does GI anthrax develop?
After ingestion of contaminated, poorly cooked meat
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Clinical presentation of GI anthrax
- Abdominal pain, usually accompanied by bloody vomiting or diarrhea, followed by fever and signs of severe infection
- GI anthrax is sometimes seen as mouth and throat ulcerations with tender neck glands and fever
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Incubation and fatality of GI anthrax
- Incubation period: 1–7 days
| - Case-fatality: 25–90% (role of early antibiotic treatment is undefined)
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Clinical presentation of cutaneous anthrax
- Begins as a papule, progresses through a vesicular stage to a depressed black necrotic ulcer (eschar)
- Edema, redness, and/or necrosis without ulceration may occur
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How does cutaneous anthrax develop?
This form MC encountered in naturally occurring cases*
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Incubation and fatality of cutaneous anthrax
- Incubation period: 1–12 days
| - Case-fatality: without antibiotic treatment: 20%; with antibiotic treatment: 1%
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Clinical presentation of inhalational anthrax
- A brief prodrome resembling a “viral-like” illness, characterized by muscle aches, fatigue, fever, with or without respiratory symptoms, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain
- As symptoms progress, more significant respiratory complaints develop, and patients may become significantly short of breath with complaints of air hunger.
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Which symptoms suggest anthrax meningitis?
Confusion, neck stiffness, and headache suggest anthrax meningitis (seen in 50% of patients)
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What is the incubation period for inhalational anthrax?
1-6 days
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What symptoms occur during the terminal phase of inhalational anthrax?
Dyspnea, stridor, cyanosis, shock, chest wall edema, meningitis, widened mediastinum with effusion with overall toxic/septic clinical picture
*Death within 24 hrs if it reaches the terminal phase
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Diagnosis of anthrax
- Sudden onset of respiratory distress with mediastinal widening on x-ray
- A small number of patients may present with GI or cutaneous anthrax
- Gram stain of blood and blood cultures - but these may be late findings in the course of the illness
- PCR and immunohistology testing may confirm diagnosis but samples must go to reference laboratory
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Acute treatment of anthrax
- Abx for most infections; inhalation anthrax is harder to treat and can be fatal.
- Ciprofloxacin - 400 mg IV q 8 to 12 hr
- Doxycycline - 100 mg IV q 12 hr
- Antitoxin
- Vaccination*
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Post-exposure anthrax treatment
- Oral prophylaxis
- Ciprofloxacin (500 mg PO q12 h) X 60 days and until 3 doses of vaccine
- Doxycycline (100 mg PO q12 h) X 60 days and until 3 doses of vaccine
- Vaccination
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Anthrax Vaccination
- FDA approved 1970
- Cell Free filtrate (NO organisms, dead or alive)
- Adverse effects 1-3%
- It is an immunization regimen that includes 6 injections.
- For this vaccine to remain effective however the patient will require yearly boosters.
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What organism causes the plague?
Yersinia pestis - a Gram negative, nonmotile, nonsporulating bacteria
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Vector for the plague
- Rodent flea: results in primary bubonic plague
| - The plague bacteria can cycle between rats and their fleas.
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When was the last plague outbreak?
- The last urban outbreak of rat associated plague in US occurred in Los Angeles in 1924-1925.
- Since that time plague has occurred in rural and semi rural areas of the western US where many types of rodent species are involved.
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Clinical presentation of bubonic plague
- Sudden onset of flu-like syndrome (fever, headache, rigors, malaise, myalgias, nausea)
- Buboes formation - within 24 hours - swollen, infected lymph node (very painful!)
- Cutaneous findings in 25% of cases
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Incubation and mortality of bubonic plague
- Incubation 1-8 days (mode 3-5 days)
| - Mortality: Untreated60%; Treated < 5%
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Pneumonic plague clinical presentation
- 2 to 3 day incubation period
- High fever, muscle aches, chills, headache
- Cough with bloody sputum within 24 hours
- Pneumonia progresses rapidly with shortness of breath, stridor, cyanosis, difficulty breathing, chest pain
- Respiratory failure, shock, bleeding
- Plague pneumonia and sepsis develop acutely and may be fulminant
- Patchy lung infiltrates or consolidation seen on chest x-ray
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Which form of plague is the most serious and can be spread person to person?
Pneumonic plague
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Plague diagnosis
- Gram stain and/or culture of lymph node aspirates, sputum, or CSF samples
- Bipolar staining “Safety Pin” may be present
- Immunoassays are also available
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Plague treatment
| -antibiotic therapy
- Streptomycin (choice) 15-30 mg/kg IM BID x 10 days
- Gentamicin 2 mg/kg IV then 1.0-1.5 mg/kg q8h or 5 mg/kg IV q24h x 10 days
- Doxycycline 200 mg IV then 100mg BID x 10-14 days
- Ciprofloxacin - 400 mg IV q12h x 10 days
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Plague - control of secondary transmission
Standard, contact, and aerosol precautions for at least 48 hrs until sputum cultures are negative or pneumonic plague is excluded
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What is the world's first eradicated disease?
Smallpox
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When were the last cases of smallpox?
1977- last endemic case in Somalia
1978- two laboratory cases in Britain
1980- WHO declares global eradication of smallpox
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Which pathogen causes smallpox?
- Variola virus: an Orthopox virus, both minor and major forms of smallpox exist
- Structure is a double stranded, large DNA virus
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Weaponization of smallpox vs. anthrax
It is not as easily weaponized as anthrax, and requires additional measures to afford the virus the stability in the environment
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Smallpox prodrome symptoms
- Infection of respiratory mucosa
- Minor viremia: seeding of liver, spleen
- Major viremia: seeding of skin
- Initial symptoms: acute onset fever, rigors, headache, vomiting- sometimes contagious
- Virus cultured from blood
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Incubation of smallpox prodrome
Incubation 7-19 days (mean 12)
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Smallpox clinical presentation
-Early rash stage: enanthem = contagious
-Once sores in the mouth start breaking down: Exanthem
-Begins on face, hands, forearms
-Spreads to lower extremities
Centrifugal distribution*
-Macules --> papules --> vesicles --> pustules --> scabs/crusts --> scars
-Spreads to all parts of the body within 24 hours
-After about 4 weeks scabs have all fallen off, no longer contagious
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Management of smallpox contacts
-Immediate vaccination or boosting
VIG 0.6 ml/kg
- Pregnant patients
- Dermatoses patients
- Creates passive immunity for that person*
STRICT quarantine x 17 days
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Smallpox vaccination
- Employs Vaccinia virus
- Given by scarification
- One dose protective for 5-10 years
- Must keep vaccinia immunoglobulin (VIG) on hand to treat complications of vaccination
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Complications of smallpox vaccination in normal host
- Inadvertent Autoinoculation (skin, eye)
- Generalized vaccinia
- Erythema multiforme
- Encephalitis
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Other complications of smallpox vaccination
- Pregnancy: fetal vaccinia
- Dermatoses/Burns: eczema vaccinatum
- Immunocompromised: vaccinia necrosum
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Smallpox treatment
- Public health emergency
- Supportive care
- Vaccinia Immunoglobulin
- Strict quarantine until scabs off (at least 17 days)
- Cidofovir
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What kinds of viruses cause Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (VHFs)?
RNA viruses causing high fevers and generalized vascular damage
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Which viruses are VHFs?
Filoviruses (Ebola and Marburg)
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How are viral hemorrhagic fevers spread?
Human infections by insect bites or by contact with blood and body fluids
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Etiology of VHFs
- RNA viruses causing high fevers and generalized vascular damage
- May be spread by aerosol, on fomites, and by oral secretions and eye drainage in animals
- Human infections by contact with blood and body fluids
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VHF pathogenesis
- Fever, muscle aches, prostration
- Cases evolve into shock and generalized mucous membrane hemorrhage
- Conjunctival injection, petechial hemorrhage, and hypotension
- Abnormal kidney and liver function tests: poor prognosis
- Mortality varies; 50 - 80% Ebola Zaire
- Disease severity and survival depends on various host factors; target organ is the blood vessel system
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S/sx of ebola virus
- Fever
- Severe headache
- Muscle pain
- Weakness
- Fatigue
- Diarrhea
- Vomiting
- Abdominal (stomach) pain
- Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)
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Diagnosis of Ebola virus
- To determine whether Ebola virus infection is a possible diagnosis, there must be a combination of symptoms suggestive of EVD AND a possible exposure to EVD within 21 days before the onset of symptoms.
- Contact public health authorities is suspected disease.
- Real time PCR testing for Ebola virus
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Treatment of Ebola virus
- Supportive
- Oxygen
- Antipyretics
- Antiemetics
- Treat secondary infections if arise
- No antiviral available
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Which pathogen causes marburg hemorrhagic fever?
Rousettus aegypti - fruit bats are considered to be natural hosts of the Marburg virus
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Etiology of marburg hemorrhagic fever
- Causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever in humans
- Fatality rates range from 24%- 88%
- No specific antiviral treatment or vaccine is available
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How is marburg hemorrhagic fever spread?
Virus transmitted to people from fruit bats and spread among humans through human-to-human transmission
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Prevention of secondary viral hemorrhagic fever transmission
- Animal studies indicate aerosol transmission possible
- Single room with adjoining anteroom as only entrance
- Handwashing station with decontamination solution
- Negative air pressure room if possible
- Strict barrier precautions (PPE)
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List the strict barrier precautions (PPE) for VHFs
- Gloves, gown, mask. shoe covers, protective eyeware/faceshield
- Consider HEPA respirator (e.g. N95) for severe hemorrhage, vomiting, diarrhea, cough
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Prevention of secondary viral hemorrhagic fever transmission cont...
- Chemical toilet
- All body fluids disinfected
- Disposable equipment/sharps into rigid containers and autoclaved/incinerated
- Double-bag refuse-outside bag disinfected
- Electronic/mechanical equipment must be disinfected
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Diagnosis and tx of VHFs
- Not usually made based on clinical findings; however, during outbreaks, clinical findings should trigger health care providers to isolate patients who may have symptoms
- PCR and ELISA can detect later in the course of the disease
- No specific treatment; supportive care, usually in ICU
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How is Dengue transmitted?
Dengue is transmitted primarily from human to human by the bite of the Aedes mosquito
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Etiology of Dengue fever
- Leading cause of illness and death in the tropics and subtropics
- Nearly all dengue cases reported in the 48 continental states were acquired elsewhere by travelers or immigrants
- Usually occurs during rainfall season when breeding is optimal for the Aedes mosquito
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Which pathogen causes Dengue fever?
Vectors: Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus
| *Flavavirus, mosquito born disease
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Where are Aedes mosquitoes found?
- Aedes is common in the southern US, dengue is endemic in northern Mexico, and the US population has no immunity
- Lack of dengue transmission in the continental US is primarily because contact between people and the vectors is too infrequent to sustain transmission
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Dengue fever transmission
- The mosquito must feed on a person during a 5-day period when large amounts of virus are in the blood
- After entering the mosquito in the blood meal, the virus will require an additional 8-12 days incubation
- The mosquito remains infected for the remainder of its life, which might be days or a few weeks
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Dengue Fever s/sx
- “Break bone fever”
- Acute onset of high fever 3-14 days after the bite of infected mosquito
- Frontal headache
- Retro-orbital pain
- Myalgia
- Arthralgia
- Hemorrhagic manifestations
- Rash
- Anorexia and nausea
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Complications of dengue fever
- Febrile seizures
- Dehydration
- Dengue hemorrhagic fever: severe, fatal form
- Dengue shock syndrome
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List the hemorrhagic manifestations
- Skin hemorrhages
- Epistaxis
- Gingival bleeding
- Microscopic hematuria
- Vaginal bleeding
- Hematemesis
- Intracranial bleeding
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List the s/sx of dengue shock syndrome
- Decrease in level of consciousness
- Hypothermia
- Hypoperfusion
- Metabolic acidosis
- Progressive organ impairment
- DIC
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Diagnosis of dengue fever
- Usually clinical
- Leukopenia is characteristic, elevated transaminases
- Thrombocytopenia, fibrinolysis and hemoconcentration- hemorrhagic form
- Early infection can be confirmed by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)
- A week after, IgM antibodies can be detected
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Treatment of dengue fever
- No specific therapeutic options besides supportive care.
- Monitor vitals to assess disease progression
- Volume support
- Blood products
- Vasopressors
- Acetaminophen: avoid NSAIDs
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Prevention of Dengue Fever
- Bed nets
- Repellents
- Screening blood transfusions
- Dengvaxia -- recombinant, live, attenuated, tetravalent dengue vaccine (CYD-TDV)- 1st vaccine approved, licensed in 6 countries
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Which pathogen causes yellow fever?
Flavivirus infection via Aedes mosquito bite
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What geographic location is yellow fever found?
- Yellow fever occurs in 47 endemic countries in Africa in Central and South America
- Around 90% of cases reported every year occur in sub-Saharan Africa
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S/sx of yellow fever
- May be asymptomatic or have mild symptoms
- Onset of symptoms typically 3-6 days
- Sudden onset of fever
- Chills
- Severe headache
- Back pain
- General body aches
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Fatigue
- Weakness
- Most people with the initial symptoms improve within one week
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Severe disease sx of yellow fever
- High fever
- Yellow skin (jaundice)
- Bleeding
- Shock
- Organ failure
- Severe yellow fever disease can be deadly
- Among those who develop severe disease, 30-60% die
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Diagnosis of yellow fever
- Clinical features
- Serum IgM antibodies
- Blood samples -- virus detection
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Treatment of yellow fever
No treatment or cure- supportive:
- Rest
- Fluids
- Pain relievers- avoid ASA and NSAIDs
- If severe symptoms, hospitalization may be needed for monitoring
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What pathogen causes West Nile Virus?
West Nile virus is caused by an arbovirus (arthropod borne, RNA viruses)
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How is West Nile Virus transmitted?
- The virus is carried in the saliva of mosquitoes and is transmitted through bites
- Birds are the primary hosts (Crow and Cardinals)
- Infection is spread from bird to bird by mosquitoes
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Pathogenesis of West Nile Virus
Most infected people are asymptomatic unless the infection causes an invasive neurological disease called West Nile Fever
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S/sx of West Nile Virus
- Fever, headache, myalgia, and anorexia
- Severe infection can cause profound fatigue, myocarditis, pancreatitis, and hepatitis
- Particularly severe cases can result in encephalitis or meningitis and death
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Diagnosis of West Nile Virus
- IgM antibodies -- serum or CSF
- Viral cultures to detect viral RNA(RT-PCR)
- Immunohistochemistry (IHC) can detect WNV antigen in formalin-fixed tissue
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Tx of West Nile Virus
- Supportive care
- No vaccine or specific antiviral available
- Pain control for headaches and antiemetic therapy and rehydration for associated nausea and vomiting
- Patients with encephalitis require close monitoring for the development of airway compromise, elevated intracranial pressure and seizures
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How do humans acquire highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1?
Majority of human H5N1 infection due to direct contact with birds infected with virus**
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What is H1N1?
H1N1 is a swine flu virus is a combination of swine, avian, and human influenza viruses that spreads easily from person to person
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What population was most affected by H1N1?
Higher rate of mortality in the young and middle-age vs elderly for seasonal flu
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How do humans catch H3N2?
H3N2 virus infection sporadically in US states where children and adults have contact with healthy domestic pigs at agricultural fairs
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S/sx of H1N1 Influenza
- Similar to ordinary influenza, however n/v/d may be more common
- Mild to sever disease causing pneumonia or respiratory failure
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Dx of H1N1 influenza
Sometimes PCR testing of respiratory samples
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Tx of H1N1 influenza
- Supportive therapy
| - Antivirals for high risk patients
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Zika virus transmission
- By Aedes mosquitos
- Local transmission in South America, Central America, Caribbean Islands, Pacific islands, Cape Verde, SE Asia
- As of October 2016, cases of locally transmitted Zika virus infection has been reported in Miami-Dade County in SE Florida
- Other modes of transmission: sexual transmission, blood transfusion, organ/tissue transplantation, intrauterine infection
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S/sx of Zika virus
* Most people are asymptomatic
- Fever, maculopapular rash, conjunctivitis, joint pain, retro-orbital pain, headache and muscle pain (lasts 4-7 days)
- Severe infection uncommon; death is rare
- Zika virus infection during pregnancy can cause microcephaly and other severe fetal brain defects
- In the US, several cases of microcephaly have been linked to the Zika Virus
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Dx of Zika virus
- Serologic testing
- Reverse transcriptase-CR testing
- Required to notify the CDC if they identify a case of Zika
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Tx of Zika virus
- Supportive care
| - No specific antiviral available
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Key tasks in dealing with emerging diseases
- Surveillance at national, regional, global level (epidemiological, laboratory, ecological, anthropological)
- Investigation and early control measures
- Implement prevention measures (behavioral, political, environmental)
- Monitoring, evaluation
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Solutions for emerging diseases - public health surveillance & response systems
- Rapidly detect unusual, unexpected, unexplained disease patterns
- Track & exchange information in real time
- Response effort that can quickly become global
- Contain transmission swiftly & decisively
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Solutions for emerging diseases - Internet-based information technologies
- Improve disease reporting
- Facilitate emergency communications &
- Dissemination of information
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Solutions for emerging diseases - Human genome project
Role of human genetics in disease susceptibility, progression & host response
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Solutions for emerging diseases - microbial genetics
- Microbial genetics: methods for disease detection, control & prevention
- Improved diagnostic techniques & new vaccines
- Geographic Imaging Systems (monitor environmental changes that influence disease emergence & transmission)
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The best defense (Multi-Factorial)
- Coordinated, well-prepared, well-equipped PH systems
- Partnerships- clinicians, laboritarians & PH agencies
- Improved methods for detection & surveillance
- Effective preventive & therapeutic technologies
- Strengthened response capacity
- Political commitment & adequate resources to address underlying socio-economic factors
- International collaboration & communication
