Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases

Which of the following is the main cause of Legionella?

• Increase in industry with cooling and plumbing systems being invented.
• human sexual behaviors
• increase in travel
• ecological changes

Any disease that can be transmitted from an animal to a human.

• virus
• zoonosis
• Lyme disease
• fomite

All of the following are considered a zoonosis EXCEPT:

• rabies
• Hantavirus
• Lyme disease
• Toxic Shock syndrome

Which of the following pairing of diseases and causes of emergence are NOT correct?

• Mad cow disease - change in feeding practices
• Hantavirus- increase contact with infected water
• Influenza - increased exposure to pigs and ducks
• Lyme disease - increasing exposure to ticks.

Which disease is due to an increase in use of super absorpancy tampons?

• Hantavirus
• HIV
• toxic shock syndrome
• Legionella

Hantavirus is considered an emerging disease.  What is causing its emergence?

• conditions favoring mosquito vector
• ecological changes increasing contact with rodent host.
• increase in travel
• contaminated hypodermic apparatus

All of the following are considered ecological changes that cause the emergence of disease EXCEPT:

• changes in shipping channels
• climate change
• deforestation
• agriculture practices

Which of the following are causes of emerging and re-emerging diseases?
i.  mutations in microbes
ii.  increase in travel
iii.  ecological changes
iv.  changes in human behavior
v.  mass food production

• i, ii, iii, v
• i, ii, iii, iv
• i, iii, iv, v
• i, ii, iii, iv, v

How is Lyme disease transmitted?

• pigs
• ticks
• rodents
• tampons

You watched a video about irradicating polio in India.  How did scientists treat people using the "ring" method?

• The immunized everyone.  If enough of your neighbors are vaccinated, then you're less likely to get it.
• Antibody proteins and Killer T cells help vaccines fight the virus.
• They vaccinated people immediately around the infected person.