Viral Diseases and Symptoms

Question 1

Hepatitis A

Answer 1

NAUSEA, vomit, loss of appetite, fever, chills, Enlarged Liver, 2/3 with jaundice.

Question 2

Hepatitis B

Answer 2

Liver Disease with Jaundice

Question 3

Hepatitis C

Answer 3

Cirrhosis and/or Liver Cancer

Question 4

HSV-1

Answer 4

Fever, blister lesions with burning pain as it enters neuron, cold sore on lips, skin or eyes.
Virus migrates to Trigeminal Nerve, lays latent there. Reactivated by sun or sensory stress

Question 5

HSV-2

Answer 5

Burning pain, blisters, painful urination, painful rubbing when walking. Latent in Sacral Nerve ganglion.

Question 6

Herpetic Whitlow

Answer 6

lesions on skin. Latent in other ganglion.

Question 7

Chicken Pox

Answer 7

Stored in Dorsal Ganglia. 300-500 pus filled lesions starting from scalp, face, to rest of body. Some respiratory or GI problems.
Complications: Encephalitis/Toxic Shock

Question 8

Shingles

Answer 8

Primarily Neurological with lesions. Pain, fever, headache, chills. Lesions follow specific sensory nerves, usually around waist.
Complications: Excruciating Pain syndrome, called Post Herpetic Neuralgia (PHN)

Question 9

Mono

Answer 9

Fever, sore throat, lymphadenopathy, weakness. Enlarged spleen, enlarged liver.
Complications: RARE - spleenic rupture, neurological complications.

Question 10

Measles

Answer 10

FEVER, hacking cough, bluish red spots inside cheeks = Koplik spots. As fever decreases, photophobia, red raised rash starts on face, then moves down and out. No itching.
Complications: Encephalitis/Pneumonia, severity based on vit A deficiency

Question 11

Mumps

Answer 11

Painful swelling of parotid salivary glands, usually bilateral, low grade fever, severe headache.
Complications: Encephalitis, ear and eye infections. Males after puberty - Orchitis… inflammation of testes with pain, edema, no swelling.

Question 12

Rubella

Answer 12

pink, flat rash, moderate fever, sore throat
Complications: Ear, eye symptoms, encephalitis. Cross placenta, damage chromosomes - death, stillborn, retardation, heart abnormalities.

Question 13

Polio

Answer 13

Most asymptomatic. Sore throat, nausea, fever, headache. Virus then kills nerves, stiff muscle, flaccid paralysis. Death from respiratory paralysis.
Post Polio Syndrome: patients have relearned movement with weaker nerves. Now those nerves are getting worn out, causing stiffness and loss of function.

Question 14

RSV

Answer 14

Mild fever, runny nose, wheezing, hypoxia. Hyperventilation and pulmonary edema.

Question 15

Hantavirus

Answer 15

Respiratory. Begins with mild flu-like fever, cough, headache. Rapidly progresses to Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome, pulmonary edema, and suffocation. Death within hours.

Question 16

HPV

Answer 16

Warts. Plantar, genital, anal-genital, laryngeal-pharyngeal, throat.
Complications: Cervical Cancer, Throat Cancer, Congenital warts

Question 17

Ebola

Answer 17

High fever, severe pain, hemorrhaging from all orifices, internal hemorrhaging, wretching pain.

Question 18

Influenza

Answer 18

Abrupt respiratory symptoms, fever, sore throat, muscle aches, cough, headache. Fever decreases, cough increases.
Complications: Death from viral pneumonia, or secondary bacterial pneumonia. REYES syndrome from taking aspirin - Fatty Degeneration of Brain/Liver

Question 19

Rabies

Answer 19

Encephalitis - death from violent encephalitis, extreme damage to motor and autonomic nerves - paralysis. Altering stages of agitation and calm. Foam at mouth when seeing (humans thinking about) water.

Question 20

Rotovirus, Norovirus

Answer 20

Diarrhea. Bloody, watery, sticky.