Safety and infection control

HIV can be spread by breastmilk.

• true

• false

What is monkeypox?

• A type of fever

• hantavirus affecting monkeys, rodents, and other primates (mutated to spread to humans)

• a common cold

• a strand of the flu

Bloodborne pathogen standards were created in what year?

• 1991

• 1875

• 1990

• 1542

Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act was created in November 2000

• true

• false

Rickettsiae is a ____?

• parasitic microorganism

• a bacteria

• a pet

• a virus

Viruses are the smallest microorganism.

• true

• false

Helminths are often called ____

• worms or flukes

• microorganisms

• parasites

• bugs

Endogenous is:_________

• infection or disease that originates within the body

• infection or disease that originates outside the body

Exogenous is: ________

•  infection or disease that originates outside the body

•  infection or disease that originates within the body

Portal of entry is _____

• a door for germs

• a way for the infectious agent to enter a new reservoir or host

• a way for the infectious agent to escape from the reservoir