War on Disease Flashcards

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What are the five most common ways diseses are carried?

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  1. Mirobs/air
  2. Unsantitary medical conditions
  3. Immagrints (travel)
  4. Mosquitoes
  5. Unclean water
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Name the four resons old diseases are cmoing back into the population…

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  1. Resitance to antibiotics
  2. Not wiped out of the whole world
  3. A cure was never found
  4. Bioterrorism
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Why did people feel that these diseses ahd been eraticated?

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  1. Improved snatitaion
  2. Mosquito control
  3. Global vacination
  4. Modern antibiotics
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Bioterrorism

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When infectious particles are stored and can be let free to wreak havoc on a country, causing soical unrest and political instiblility

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What are some simple solutions to water-borne diseses in the U.S.A?

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  1. Clean water/ filter systems
  2. Imporved sanitaion
  3. Testing water
  4. Track sysmptons (doctors) and over the counter dug sales (pharmices)
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What are the big six?

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  1. HIV/AIDS
  2. Tuberculocis
  3. Influenza
  4. Diarrhal disease/ Cholera
  5. Maliria
  6. Measles

(The six most major infectous diesases)

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Who is at danger for getting

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