Outbreaks
An IPAC measure to separate infected or colonized individuals from healthy people and stop transmission.
What is isolation?
This disease requires airborne precautions and often presents with clinical S&S of fever and cold-like symptoms in the early stage.
What is measles?
During active phase of this disease, symptoms may include a bad cough that lasts 3 weeks or longer, chest pain, coughing up blood?
What is tuberculosis?
This publicly funded vaccine is eligible for individuals who are high-risk and includes individuals 60 years and older and who live in long-term care homes and retirement homes licensed to provide dementia care.
What is RSV?
This is a rare, fatal, neurodegenerative brain disorder caused by misfolded infectious proteins called prions.
What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)?
A single lab confirmation of this organism is treated as a confirmed outbreak to facilitate access to antivirals.
What is influenza?
The only type of hepatitis that can’t wait to be reported on the next business day and is most commonly spread in contaminated food/water.
What is Hepatitis A?
Which one of these sexually transmitted illnesses are not a reportable DOPHS - syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, chancroid
What is herpes?
This vaccine can prevent the disease if given to a person after an exposure and may be discontinued if the animal tests negative for the disease.
What is Rabies?
This disease is still active today, but it is easily cured with modern antibiotics and has three main forms found in humans (bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic).
What is plague?
The term used to describe a connection of commonly shared spaces or individuals which suggests evidence of transmission within a facility.
What is an epidemiological link?
The two types of institutional outbreaks that require immediate reporting 24/7.
What are gastroenteritis and respiratory infection outbreaks?
This disease can have an increased risk of exposure during summer and fall months when outbreaks and bacterial growth in warm, stagnant water (20°C to 50°C) peak.
What is legionella?
As one of the 3 in 1 vaccine, this can prevent a contagious disease which is usually a mild illness but can cause a miscarriage or serious birth defects in a developing baby if a woman is infected while she is pregnant.
What is Rubella?
This is a serious and potentially life-threatening illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi, spreading primarily through contaminated food and water.
What is Typhoid Fever?
An important source of foodborne outbreaks globally, these types of viruses cause approximately 90% of all outbreaks of epidemic gastroenteritis.
What are Noroviruses?
This virus has the term “query” in their name because scientists initially had no idea what caused the mysterious illness when it was first discovered in 1935.
What is Q fever? (Query Fever)
While this bacteria can be readily killed in the vegetative form with hospital grade disinfectants, the spores can persist in the environment for months causing havoc on HC facilities.
What is C. difficile?
This vaccine is offered to individuals 65 years and older and can prevent 23 types of bacteria which can cause serious and life-threatening infections such as meningitis, septicemia, and pneumonia.
What is Pneumoccocal-P23 vaccine?
Also known as Hansen's disease, this biblical disease is a long-term bacterial infection that damages the skin, peripheral nerves (nerves outside the brain and spinal cord), eyes, and respiratory tract.
What is leprosy?
An outbreak would be considered in a LTCH/RH for this disease when an incidence rate of a culture-confirmed infection is > 1 per 100 residents per month.
What is invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease (iGAS)?
This bacteria is often found in the nose, throat and/or on the skin of healthy people and can be passed from person to person asymptomatically but can wreak havoc on a person when the bacteria enter sterile parts of the body such as blood, deep tissue or the lining of the brain.
What is invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease (iGAS)?
You’d don this sequence of PPE if about to enter a resident’s room that is experiencing chills, SOB and occasional emesis.
What is (ABHR), gown, mask, eye protection, and gloves?
This vaccine is not recommended for routine use in Canadian population, however, can be given to selected groups of people who still have high rates of TB, like, newborns and infants living in First Nation communities.
What is the BCG vaccine?
Canada has never recorded a domestic case of this disease, but the country played a major role in developing the world's first successful vaccine (however, not useful for this type of strain causing recent international headlines).
What is Ebola?