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Week 6: Zoonoses & Emerging Infections Flashcards

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What are zoonoses?

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Infectious diseases that are transmitted between animals and humans

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Why is knowing about zoonotic infections important

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And 75% of new diseases discovered in the last decade are zoonotic in origin

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Zoonotic ingectious diseases with wildlife

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  • Lyme disease
  • Monkeypox
  • Hantavirus
  • Ebola
  • SARS
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Zoonotic ingectious diseases with livestock

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  • Bovine Spongiform encephalopathy
  • Escherichia coli
  • Cowpox
  • Rift valley fever
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Zoonotic ingectious diseases with livestock & wildlife

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  • Rabies
  • West Nile Virus
  • Tuberculosis
  • Anthrax
  • Tularemia
  • Plague
  • Salmonellosis
  • Avian influenza
  • Brucellosis
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Other Zoonotic Infectious diseases

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Zoonotic pathogens as weapons

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Types of pathogens that can cause zoonoses

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How do zoonoses transmit between hosts/carriers?

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Some vectors of zoonoses

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Groups of people most at risk for zoonoses

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Keywords to look for in patient vignettes that indicate zoonoses

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Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever keywords

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Post-travel fever within 1 week of return from Africa, South America or SE Asia

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  • Malaria
  • Dengue Fever
  • Chikungunya
  • Zika
  • Yellow fever
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Plague keywords

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Hantavirus AKA

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Sin nombre (The no-named virus)

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Hantavirus keywords

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Tularemia keywords

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Tularemia keywords

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West Nile Keywords

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Rabies keywords

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Brucellosis keywords

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Lyme Disease keywords

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