tropical disease in returned traveller

Question 1

what does ebola do to the body?

Answer 1

-haemorrhagic fever
-blood vessels burst
-internal and external bleeding

Question 2

what are mosquito born viruses?

Answer 2

-malaria
-lymhatic filariasis
-zika
-yellow fever
-dengue
-chikunguyana
-West Nile virus

Question 3

where do malaria parasites first invade your body?

Answer 3

liver then escape and go into red blood cells

Question 4

what does lymphatic filariasis cause?

Answer 4

parasitic worms live beneath skin, block lymphatic vessels and cause thickening of skin and swelling of limbs

Question 5

what do kissing bugs transmit?

Answer 5

chagas disease/american trypanosomiasis

Question 6

what transmits leishmaniasis?

Answer 6

sand fly

Question 7

what happens internally when someone is infected with cholera?

Answer 7

bacteria gets into intestine, causing leakage of body fluids into intestine and very serious diarrhoea.

Question 8

where do schistosome parasites live?

Answer 8

in the bloodstream, female produce many eggs which can lodge in tissues or be released back into water