AP Enviro. Human Disease

Which Pesticide is used to kill the insects that transmit malaria?

• TTD

• DDT

• Bug spray

• None of these

The cause of malaria in humans?

• Low Blood cell count

• Bad Food

• A Parasite

• Mosquitoes

This disease is spread mostly by unsafe water and unsafe food that has been contaminated with human feces.

• smallpox
• malaria
• Cholera
• HIV

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What is the most effective way to treat TB

• Vaccines

• An inhaler

• Tuberculosis cannot be treated

• Antibiotics

The host for this disease is the mosquito.

• malaria
• cholera
• HIV
• smallpox

The symptoms of this disease are stomach pain, muscle cramps, vomiting, fever, diarrhea, and dehydration.

• malaria

• west nile virus

• cholera

• TB

The Zika virus was found to be transmitted by:

• the bite of an infected mosquito.

• the bite of an infected flea.

• the infected droppings of a bird.

• the bite of an infected deer tick.

How did the Bubonic Plague spread?

• Bad water

• Fleas on rats

• Mosquitoes

• Alignment of the stars

The zika virus is spread my mosquitos and it can cause microcephaly in babies. What is microcephaly?

• The brain does not develop normally and the head is smaller than normal.

• The brain over develops and the head becomes very large.

• The brain does not develop at all and the skull is completely empty.

• The brain does not develop normally, but it does not affect the size of the head.

West Nile Virus:

• can't be transmitted by mosquitoes.

• is NOT a problem in the U.S.A.

• can't jump to humans.

• is highly lethal to Blue Jays, American Crows & Robins.