Specific Viruses

Question 0

What are the symptoms of small pox?

Answer 0

Liesions

Question 1

What causes small pox?

Answer 1

Various virus

Question 2

What are the three systems small pox travels through?

Answer 2

Transmitted by respiratory, moves through circulatory, causes infection on skin

Question 3

Where are the only two samples of small pox found?

Answer 3

Us and Russia

Question 4

What causes chicken pox?

Answer 4

Varicella

Question 5

What can happen if you get chicken pox as an adult? 2

Answer 5

More serious, can cause fetal damage

Question 6

How do you get inefected with chicken pox?

Answer 6

Respiratory system

Question 7

How long does it take until the chicken pox virus is in the skin?

Answer 7

2 weeks

Question 8

How long will the chicken pox be there?

Answer 8

3-4 days

Question 9

Where is it common to get chicken pox liesions? 5

Answer 9

Face, throat, lower back, chest, shoulders

Question 10

Where does shingles hang out on the body?

Answer 10

Dorsal rot ganglia

Question 11

What can stimulate shingles?

Answer 11

Stress or lowered immune system

Question 12

How does shingles travel in the body?

Answer 12

Moves along the peripheral nerves to the cutaneous sensory nerves of the skin

Question 13

What lind of vaccine is available for shingles?

Answer 13

Live attenuated

Question 14

What viruses cause 50% of colds?

Answer 14

Rhinoviruses

Question 15

What viruses cause 15-20% of colds?

Answer 15

Corona virus

Question 16

How many agents have been identified in colds??

Answer 16

Over 200

Question 17

what is the difference between the flu and a cold?

Answer 17

Fever

Question 18

What is a quirky characteristic of influenza?

Answer 18

Capable of recombining RNA, creating antigenic shift which are mutations that prevent immunity and memory

Question 19

What is the reservoir for the hantavirus pulmonary syndrome?

Answer 19

Rodents

Question 20

What are 8 symptoms of the hantavirus pulmonary syndrome?

Answer 20

Fever, muscle pain, headache, chills, nausea, diarrhea, respiratory distress, hypotension, death

Question 21

How long does hantavirus pulmonary syndrome take to progress?

Answer 21

A few days - 6 weeks (avg 2 weeks)

Question 22

How is hantavirus pulmonary syndrome transmitted?

Answer 22

Inhalation of dried rodent droppings

Question 23

What is a direct way to spread hantavirus pulmonary syndrome?

Answer 23

Infected rodent bites human

Question 24

What is an indirect way to transmit hantavirus pulmonary syndrome?

Answer 24

Person touches virus, then their face, nose, mouth

Question 25

What is the vector for EEE and WEE?

Answer 25

Mosquito

Question 26

What is the reservoir for EEE and WEe?

Answer 26

Song birds

Question 27

What does arbor virus mean?

Answer 27

Arthropod born virus

Question 28

How do humans or horses get infected with EEE or wee?

Answer 28

Mosquito bites infected bird then bites human or horse

Question 29

What does EEE or wee do in the body? 4

Answer 29

Attacks lymph system, replicates macro phases and neutrophils, travels to nervous tissue, causes liesions on tissue

Question 30

What percent if horses die from EEE and wee?

Answer 30

75-90%

Question 31

What can you do to diagnose wee or EEE in a live horse?4

Answer 31

History Serology Location Season

Question 32

What is the treatment for EEE and wee?

Answer 32

Supportive care

Question 33

When is peak mosquito time?

Answer 33

Early evening

Question 34

What is orf?

Answer 34

Contagious ecthyma

Question 35

What is orf/contagious ecthyma also known as?

Answer 35

Sore mouth

Question 36

Is orf/contagious ecthyma/ sore mouth?

Answer 36

Infectious dermatitis that affects primarily sheep, goats, and cattle

Question 37

What type of virus is orf considered as?

Answer 37

Parapox

Question 38

What are symptoms of orf?

Answer 38

Papules formation around lips, nostrils, eyelids, ears of lambs and kids

Question 39

What are three ways of transmission for orf?

Answer 39

Contaminated bedding or equipment Feed lots Direct contact

Question 40

What type of virus is vesicular stomatitis?

Answer 40

Than soviets and arborvirus

Question 41

What does vascular stomatitis usually affect? 6

Answer 41

Cattle, horses, swine, sheep goats and llamas

Question 42

What does vesicular stomatitis get confused with?

Answer 42

Foot and mouth disease

Question 43

How can vesicular stomatitis be transferred?

Answer 43

Arthropod reservoirs or direct contact

Question 44

What are symptoms of vesicular stomatitis?

Answer 44

Fever, Papules and vesicles in udders, interdigital, coronary bands

Question 45

What are for ways to prevent vesicular stomatitis?

Answer 45

Quarantine, isolation, insect control, protective clothing

Question 46

When is it more likely to get West Nile virus?

Answer 46

Late spring early fall

Question 47

What are two symptomatic carriers if West Nile virus?

Answer 47

Crows and blue jays

Question 48

What are 3 a symptomatic carries/natural reservoirs?

Answer 48

Sparrows, finches, perching birds

Question 49

How us west Nile transmitted?

Answer 49

Bitten by mosquito

Question 50

What will birds look like with west Nile?

Answer 50

A symptomatic to disorientation, muscle tremors, death

Question 51

What do horses with west Nile look like?

Answer 51

Us clinical to lethargy, hindquarters weekends, seizures, death

Question 52

What are six ways to diagnose west mile?

Answer 52

Serology, necropsy, geographical location, season, history

Question 53

What are three ways to treat west Nile?

Answer 53

Supportive care, steroids, antibiotics

Question 54

What are two ways to prevent or control west Nile?

Answer 54

Vaccine and mosquito control

Question 55

What is mad cow disease?

Answer 55

Progressive neurological disorder in cattle due to infectious protien particles

Question 56

What are prions?

Answer 56

Modified forms of normal protien that become pathogenic and cause brain degeneration

Question 57

What is mad cow in humans?

Answer 57

Creutzfeldt Jacob

Question 58

What is mad cow in sheep and goats?

Answer 58

Scrapie

Question 59

How is mad cow transmitted?

Answer 59

Inherited or ingestion

Question 60

When will cattle show symptoms of mad cow?

Answer 60

2 years or older

Question 61

Where does rabies proliferate?

Answer 61

Salivary glands

Question 62

What is the initial phase of rabies and how long does it last?

Answer 62

Behavioral changes, 1-3 days

Question 63

What is the excitation phase and how long does it last?

Answer 63

Irrational and aggressive, death in ten days

Question 64

What is the paralytic stage and how long is it?

Answer 64

Not aggressive, paralysis of throat and jaws, death in ten days

Question 65

How long. Does it take for a patient to die of rabies?

Answer 65

Usually 2-6 days