Vector-Borne
This parasitic disease is transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes and causes fever, chills, and fatigue.
What is malaria?
Antibiotics treat and cure, but resistant strains are coming back
What is TB?
Mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa
Medicine will cure, but hard to get in Africa. Mosquito nets prevent infection. DDT also prevents.
What is malaria?
Insecticide still used in areas of the world to combat malaria.
What is DDT.
Dead birds are 1st indicators of disease. “Newer” disease in USA
What is West Nile Virus?
Spread by breathing in the virus or by body fluids
Mainly in Asia
What is SARS?
Pathogen spread through vectors and human contact.
What is plague?
Causes fever, chills. Can be deadly. Occasionally occurs in VT.
What is west nile virus?
This disease can cause buboes, painful swelling of the lymph nodes, and can spread rapidly without intervention.
What is Plague?
Camels and bats might be the vector
Mainly in Middle East, but a few in the US
What is MERS?
First order of treatment for cholera patients.
What is oral rehydration.
Three diseases with disease vectors.
What are west nile nirus, zika virus, and malaria.
The most common vector for the plague is the rat flea, which transmits the disease to humans.
What is plague?
This has caused levels of food-borne illness to skyrocket despite better refrigeration and food preservation.
What are restaurants and pre-made food.
Health Impacts
Fever, chills. Kills millions each year
What is malaria?
Two diseases tied to poor sanitation and contaminated water supplies.
What are cholera and dysentery.
Health Impacts - Causes birth defects-small head
What is West Nile Virus?
Allows pathogens to “hitchhike” their way to new hosts in new parts of the world.
What is globalization?
Catastraufic event in Haiti that resulted in a disease outbreak.
What is an earthquake?
Chlorine resistant pathogens are found here.
Health clubs/gyms