DISEASES
RISK MANAGEMENT
TOXINS
CHEMICALS
MISCELLANEOUS
100
Reduce antibiotic use in livestock.
What is a way to prevent/reduce the incidence of infectious disease?
100
Formula for risk.
What is probability of exposure X probability of harm?
100
A drawback to these is that people are exposed to more than one toxin.
What are epidemiological studies?
100
TSCA
What is Toxic Substance Control Act?
100
Two a day or less.
What is a healthy amount of alcohol?
200
Three viral diseases.
What are influenza, Hepatitis B, SARS, West Nile, common cold?
200
Two chemicals are more harmful than either on their own.
What is synergistic interaction?
200
Has an LD50 of 5 mg/kg of body mass or less.
What is a poison?
200
Cosmetics, pesticides, food additives, drugs.
What are chemicals not controlled by TSCA?
200
Greatest cause of preventable death in the USA.
What is tobacco use?
300
Incidence is on the rise due to resistance to antibiotics; spread through coughing.
What is tuberculosis?
300
Mathematical statement of likelihood.
What is probability?
300
Last longer: fat or water soluble.
What are fat solutbe?
300
Rarely used because it is too expensive.
What is the Precautionary Principle?
300
AIDS makes this disease worse.
What is TB?
400
Migration to uninhabited tropical rural areas.
What will expose people to new diseases?
400
Prevention of malaria.
What is draining swamps or mosquito nets or mosquito-eating fish or spraying for mosquitos?
400
Deaths go up in a regular fashion.
What are linear dose-response curves?
400
No treatment.
What is the control?
400
Causes cancer and heart disease.
What is tobacco use?
500
Vaccines prevent this KIND of disease.
What is viral?
500
Name five of the seven deadliest infectious diseases.
What are any five of: acute respiratory infections (pneumonia or flu or SARS); AIDS; diarrheal diseases; TB; malaria; hep B; measles?
500
Difficult to do because humans are exposed to so many toxins.
What are epidemiological studies?
500
Herbicide which causes decrease in testosterone.
What atrazine?
500
Percentage of chemicals screened for mutagenicity in the USA.
What is 2%?
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