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Wildlife Flashcards

1
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What is a sign of respiratory distress in avians?

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Tail bobbing

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What mentation & stance in avians is a sign of critical sickness?

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Sleepy or laterally recumbent

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What are common routes of medication administration in birds?

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IM & SQ

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How do you give medications into the renal-portal system?

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Administered cranial to the kidneys

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Where are IM injections give in birds?

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Pectoral muscles

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Where are indwelling catheters or IV injections given?

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Medial metatarsal
Cutaneous ulnar
Jugular vein

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How are oral medications administered in birds?

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Feeding tube or syringe titration

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8
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How do raptors intake most of their water?

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Eating prey

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9
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If a raptor is not eating how can you support them?

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Inguinal or IV fluids
Force feeding chopped mice, rats, fish, chicks
Oxbow Carnivore Care Prey via feeding tube

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10
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What can be used for short-term feeding in injured songbirds?

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Maintenance-soaked dog food

Nutritional formula should be used for long-term care

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11
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How does ingesting the entire carcass add nutrients when provided to snakes?

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Calcium from the bone

Further supplementation is not needed when feeding the whole prey

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12
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What should you never feed snakes?

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Chicken breast
Hot dogs
Raw beef

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13
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Why should prekilled or stunned food be offered to snakes?

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To prevent harm by the prey item

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14
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What is best to feed herbivore lizards?

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Dark leafy greens & vegetables

Kale, chard, turnip greens, escarole

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15
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What is best to feed reptiles that are insectivores?

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Mealworms
Silkworms
Crickets

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What is best to feed reptiles that are carnivores?

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Whole prey

Mice, rats, guinea pigs, fish

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What is best to feed reptiles that are Omnivores?

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Dark leafy greens and insects

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18
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What are most aquatic turtles?

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Omnivores

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19
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What do aquatic turtles eat?

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Fish
Invertebrates
Algae
Leafy greens

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20
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What are tortoises classified as?

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Herbivores

Eat a variety of leaves, grasses, flowers

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21
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What should captive tortoises eat?

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Dark leafy greens, rose petals, hay, vegetables

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22
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What should you not feed captive tortoises?

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Feed dog food
Tofu
Monkey biscuits
Diet with animal protein

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What should you not feed captive tortoises?

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Feed dog food
Tofu
Monkey biscuits
Diet with animal protein

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23
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How often should baby bird hatchlings be fed?

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Every 10-20 minutes

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24
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How often should nestlings be fed?

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Every 20-30 minutes

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25
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How often should fledglings be fed?

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Every 45-60 minutes

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How often should juveniles be fed?

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Every 2 hours

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27
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What animal is it illegal to possess their body or body parts?

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Bald or Golden eagles

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28
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How can you stabilize leg fractures in small song birds?

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Tape splint

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29
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How do you stabilize wing fractures or injuries that cause wing drooping?

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Figure-eight bandage

Stabilize a fracture of the radius/ulna since the bandage supports the elbow & wrists

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30
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How do you stabilize a bird with a fracture of the humerus?

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Body wrap must be placed to stabilized the shoulder joint

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31
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What medications can be used as premedications in wildlife?

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Ketamine
Dexmedetomidine
Xylazine
Telazol
Buprenorphine
Butorphanol
Midazolam
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32
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What postoperative pain medications are used in wildlife?

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Butorphanol
Buprenorphine
NSAIDS
MU opioids

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33
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What is the overall goal of wildlife medication and rehabilitation?

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Release the animal back to the wild

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34
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What are common disease of birds of prey seen in a wildlife rehabilitation center?

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Gunshot wounds
HBC
Flying into a window
Attacked by another animal
Electrocution
Bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic infections
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35
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What are common diseases or conditions seen in non-raptorial birds?

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Flying into a window
Being attacked
Gunshot wounds
Ingestion toxicity

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36
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What are common diseases and conditions seen in reptiles in a wildlife rehabilitation?

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HBC
Attacked by another animal
Fractures
Open wounds
Salmonellosis outbreaks
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37
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What are common diseases or conditions of mammals seen in a wildlife rehabilitation center?

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HBC
Attacked by another animal
Gunshot wound
Bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic infections

38
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What are common diseases or conditions seen in raccoons?

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Reservoir for rabies
Balisascaris procyonis
Canine or feline distemper
Trypanosoma cruzi
Rickettsia rickettsii
Leptospirosis
Salmonella spp
39
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What species have an impressive immune system, lower than average body temperature, are not a carrier for zoonotic diseases, unlikely to carry rabies but can carry fleas and other parasites?

40
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What species can carry Leptospirosis and Salmonella in their feces, are vectors for rabies and can carry the bubonic plague?

41
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What can wild hares and rabbits carry?

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Tularemia (Rabbit Fever)

Franciella tularensis

42
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What animal is the most common transmitter of rabies?

43
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What diseases can wild canids carry?

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Sarcoptic mange
Rabies
Canine Distemper
Parvovirus

44
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Armadillos transmit Leprosy or Hansen’s disease (Mycobacterium leprae), how is this transmitted?

A

Excessive handling

Eating armadillo meat

45
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What are examples of heavy metals that cause heavy metal toxicosis?

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Lead poisoning

Zinc toxicity

46
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What is considered an intoxication rather than an infectious disease and can cause large die-offs of migrating waterfowl?

47
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What is the causative agent of Botulism?

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Clostridium botulinum

48
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What causes algal toxins?

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Freshwaters exposed to warm temperatures

Blooms of toxin-producing phytoplankton (Blue-green alage)

49
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What do high concentrations of algal toxins cause?

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Neurotoxic and hepatotoxic signs

50
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What are signs of oil ingestion in birds?

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Hypothermia
Dehydration
Emaciation
Electrolyte imbalance

51
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How are zoonotic diseases transmitted?

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Direct and indirect

52
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Direct zoonotic transmission?

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Feces
Urine
Saliva

53
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Indirect zoonotic transmission?

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Ticks
Fleas
Mosquitoes

54
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What disease was recently discovered to be zoonotic?

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Bordetella bronchiseptica

55
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Epizootic

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An increase over the normal expected cases in a geographic area or certain time period

56
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Epidemic

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Human term for epizootic

57
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Enzootic

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Disease that has maintained a certain level of prevalence over time

58
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Endemic

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Human term is now the choice in vet med for enzootic

59
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Cyclozoonosis

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Must have several cycles of the disease to occur in several different species
Hydatid diseases

60
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Common Bacterial Diseases:

Chlamydophila psittaci

A

Flulike to pneumonia

61
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Common Bacterial Diseases:

Salmonella spp, Campylobacter spp, Escherichia coli, Yersinia spp

A

Intestinal diseases

62
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Common Bacterial Diseases:

Staphylococcus aureus

A

Intestinal or skin (MRSA) diseases

63
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Common Bacterial Diseases:

Bacillus anthracis

64
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Common Bacterial Diseases:

Streptococcus spp

A

Strep throat
Pneumonia
Intestinal

65
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Common Bacterial Diseases:

Mycobacterium spp

A

Tuberculosis

Leprosy

66
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Common Bacterial Diseases:

Leptospira interrogans

A

Leptospirosis

Jaundice/fever

67
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Common Bacterial Diseases:

Clostridium spp

A

Intestinal

Botulism

68
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Common Bacterial Diseases:

Francisella tularensis

69
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Common Bacterial Diseases:

Rickettsia rickettsii

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Rocky Mountain Spotted fever

70
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Common Bacterial Diseases:

Borrelia burgdorferi

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Lyme Disease

71
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What common fungal diseases cause respiratory illnesses?

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Aspergillus spp
Histoplasma spp
Blastomyces spp

72
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Common Viral Diseases:

Rabies

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Acute encephalitis

73
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Common Viral Diseases:

West Nile Virus

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Neurologic

74
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Common Viral Diseases:

Avian influenza

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Respiratory

75
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Common Viral Diseases:

St. Louis encephalitis, Eastern equine encephalitis

A

Neurologic

76
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What common parasitic diseases cause intestinal disease?

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Giardia spp

Cryptosporidium spp

77
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What is a viral disease that is associated with raccoons, skunks, coyote, foxes and bats?

78
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What does rabies cause?

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Affects the nervous system

Acute encephalitis and death

79
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How is rabies transmitted to people?

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The transmission of saliva from rabid animal to the eyes, nose, mouth or wound

80
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What exists in all wildlife droppings, causes severe gastroenteritis, enteric fever, septicemia, death and is transmitted through consumption of contaminated food?

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Salmonellosis

81
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What is an obligate intracellular bacteria, causes psittacosis in humans, chlamydiosis in birds and is transmitted through inhalation from dried droppings or feather dust?

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Chlamydiosis

82
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What can be very serious and life threatening, causes fever, headaches, weakness, and vomiting?

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Leptospira

83
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What is the deadly disease, rodents are the vectors for, transmitted through contact with urine, feces, saliva of infected rodents?

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Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome

84
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This bacterial disease plague is caused by Yersinia pestis, affects the lymphatic system after a bite from an infected flea and causes symptoms like fever, confusion and fatigue?

A

Bubonic Plague

85
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What is caused by Francisella tularensis carried by rodents, transmitted through contaminated food & droppings, causes high fever?

86
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What is caused by Francisella tularensis carried by rodents, transmitted through contaminated food & droppings, causes high fever?

87
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What is mosquito borne, can cause depression, anorexia, weakness, recumbency, weight loss, neurologic signs and is from the family Flaviviridae?

A

West Nile Virus

88
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What bacterial disease is associated with bison, deer, and other wild animals?

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Brucella canis

89
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What is the most commonly reported tick-borne zoonoses, caused by Borreliosis spp, causes flulike rash, joint pain, neurologic, heart problems, eye inflammation, liver inflammation, severe fatigue?

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Lyme Disease

90
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What is more deadly than Lyme disease and is caused by Tick-borne Rickettsia rickettsii?

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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

91
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What are the symptoms of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever?

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High fever
Headache
Chills
Severe muscle pain
Malaise
92
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What parasitic disease is associated with various animals, is transmitted through ingestion and causes diarrhea?

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Giardiasis

93
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What fungal disease is associated with bat guano?

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Histoplasma

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