Communications
What is precautionary advisory?
This is the incubation period for Ebola.
What is 2 to 21 days?
This country has had a majority of Ebola cases not involved in the West Africa outbreak.
What is the DRC?
This major event happened shortly before the Anthrax bioterror attack.
What is 9/11?
This term refers to keeping drugs refrigerated during transport.
What is a cold chain?
This is highly sought after by reporters but in the case of the Frontier norovirus outbreak, it was difficult to provide due to the nature of the disease.
What is a visual aid?
This is the event in which the animal reservoir passes the disease on to the human host.
What is a spillover event?
Urbanization similar to that in Africa, was a contributor to this countries historic cholera outbreak and this countries current cholera outbreak.
What are England and Yemen?
This building was the source of anthrax in our campus scenario.
What is the Cargill building?
This disease was historically treated in sanatoriums.
What is tuberculosis?
This was the phone line created by MDH to respond to Anthrax concerns.
What is the warmline?
These are the units where Ebola patients and patients of other threatening diseases are kept.
What are special pathogens units?
These were the three countries impacted by the West Africa outbreak.
What are Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone?
Antibiotics, ventilators, and N95s are just some of the items stored in the this resource.
What is the strategic national stockpile?
This organization was created to ensure that response to emergencies is organized and cohesive across many groups.
What is NIMS?
This is the level at which the average person can process information in a low stress situation.
What is an 8th grade level?
These machines clean highly infectious materials.
What is an autoclave?
This vaccination strategy is being used to respond to current Ebola outbreaks.
What is ring vaccination?
This campus event complicated the response to the Anthrax scenario.
What is parent and family weekend?
This refers to the part of the supply chain that involves the making of the drug itself.
What is upstream?
These are the 3 of the 6 keys to outbreak response (any three will suffice)
What are: be right, be first, express empathy, be credible, promote action, show respect
This feature makes bats a natural reservoir for many infectious diseases.
What is a high body temperature?
This African city is a busy transportation hub, but a major concern of epidemiologists
What is Kinsasha?
The SNS has these available with all of its supplies for fast deployment in an emergency.
What is a 12-hour pushpack?
This strain of meningococcal disease is of particular concern to college campuses.
What is meningitis B?