Zoonotic Disease

Question 1

What is anthroponoses?

Answer 1

disease that people get from other people

human reservior

Question 2

T or F: 60% of all pathogens of human beings are zoonoses?

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What are examples of zoonoses?

Answer 3

Rabies
Mycobacterium bovis
Yersinia pestis
Bacillus anthracis

Question 4

What is the “cost” of zoonotic disease?

Answer 4

cost in human health

economic cost such as treatment cost

Question 5

T or F: Zoonoses are a global problem?

Answer 5

True

Question 6

How does one prevent zoonotic disease?

Answer 6

surveillance
prevention and control
occupational safety

Question 7

What are some viral examples of zoonoses?

Answer 7

ebola
rabies
Colorado tick fever
influenza

Question 8

What are some bacterial examples of zoonoses?

Answer 8

anthrax
leptospriosis
plague
salmonellosis

Question 9

What are some parasitic examples of zoonoses?

Answer 9

giardia

toxoplasmosis

Question 10

What are some mycotic examples of zoonoses?

Answer 10

dermatophytoses

histoplasmosis

Question 11

T of F: some zoonoses require more than one vertebrae species to maintain themselves?

Answer 11

True

Question 12

What is taenia solium?

Answer 12

porcine cysticecosis (pigs eat eggs)
Human taenasis (human eats cysts in pigs)
Human cysticercosis (human eats eggs-brain cysts)

Question 13

What is taenia solium neurocysticrcosis?

Answer 13

larvae cyst in brain, causes seizures and epilepsy

self infection

Question 14

How is taenia solium transmitted to pigs?

Answer 14

contamination of feed, pasture or water with human feces

Question 15

What is prevention of taenia solium?

Answer 15

meat inspection
proper cooking of pork
proper handing of raw pork 
hygiene 
sewage treatment

Question 16

How does giardia spread?

Answer 16

consume cysts via water or surface contamination of food

Question 17

What is prevention of giardia?

Answer 17

water treatment

sewage treatment

Question 18

T or F: rabies is a acute, progressive encephalomyelitis

Answer 18

True

Question 19

What is rabies caused by?

Answer 19

RNA virus

Lyssavirus is a subspecies that causes Rabies

Question 20

What are rabies host?

Answer 20

mammals

Question 21

T or F: only bats are capable of maintaing the rabies virus and not getting sick?

Answer 21

True

Question 22

How can one prevent rabies?

Answer 22

surveillance, reduce animal reservior, vaccinate, education

Question 23

What is the hantavirus?

Answer 23

enveloped ssRNA virus

Question 24

What are the reservior of hantavirus?

Answer 24

rodents

Question 25

What are causes of hantavirus?

Answer 25

rodents shed saliva, urine and feces primary aerosol, inhalation direct or indirect secondary transmission via bite

Question 26

What is hantavirus pulmonary syndrome?

Answer 26

fever, chills, headache | increased vascular permeability in lungs

Question 27

What is hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome?

Answer 27

renal damage, hemorrhage and cardiovascular shock

Question 28

What is anthrax?

Answer 28

spore forming bacteria

Question 29

How does one contact anthrax?

Answer 29

inhalation of spores or contaminated fomites

Question 30

What are three different types of human anthrax?

Answer 30

gastrointestinal, cutaneous and pulmonary

Question 31

What are symptoms of anthrax in cattle?

Answer 31

bleeding from all orifices swelling sudden death

Question 32

What are postmortem signs of anthrax in cattle?

Answer 32

blood not clotted spores in microscopy rapid bloating lack of rigor

Question 33

What is prevention of anthrax?

Answer 33

animal vaccination burn infected carcasses inform health officals

Question 34

What are resivoros for Brucella melitensis?

Answer 34

found in sheep, pigs, riendeer, dogs

Question 35

What are resiviors for Brucella abortus?

Answer 35

bison, buffalo, elk, horses

Question 36

What is brucellosis?

Answer 36

bangs disease recurring fever for months abortions occur

Question 37

What is brucella transmitted?

Answer 37

mucous membrane exposure or through skin found in blood, urine, semen, feces feed/water contamination

Question 38

How does one control brucella?

Answer 38

eliminate animal reservior | reduce public exposure

Question 39

What is Borrelioses?

Answer 39

tick transmitted spirochetes

Question 40

What are two groups of Borrelia that cause zoonotic disease?

Answer 40

lyme disease | relapsing fever

Question 41

What does lyme disease manifest as?

Answer 41

joint pain cardiovascular neurological

Question 42

How is West Nile virus transmitted?

Answer 42

mosoquito-bird-mosquito cycle

Question 43

What are dead end host of West Nile?

Answer 43

horses and humans

Question 44

T or F: after west nile infection, one develops life long immunity?

Answer 44

true

Question 45

What are symptoms of west nile in horses?

Answer 45

ataxia, weakness, death

Question 46

What are symptoms of west nile in humans?

Answer 46

mostly asymptotic