Epidemiology
What are host, agent, and environment?
What are host, agent, and environment?
The plant responsible for most cases of Geeldikkop.
What is Tribulus terrestris?
Animals that mainly feed on leaves and shrubs.
What are browsers?
What is the name of the blood-feeding mouthpart ticks use to attach to a host?
What is the hypostome?
The four major groups of endoparasites found in wildlife.
What are roundworms, flukes, tongue worms, and tapeworms?
A host that carries a disease-causing agent without showing symptoms.
What is a carrier (reservoir) host?
The ornamental plant that causes liver damage and photosensitisation.
What is Lantana camara?
A condition caused by excess starch leading to a drop in blood pH
What is acidosis?
The hard shield-like structure found on the back of hard ticks.
What is the scutum?
The disease caused by Bacillus anthracis
What is Anthrax?
Disease spread through coughing, sneezing, or airborne droplets.
What is aerial transmission?
The poisonous plant known as Gifblaar.
What is Dichapetalum cymosum?
The process of adding microbes to restore rumen function.
What is rumen inoculation?
During which stage of their life cycle do ticks hatch from eggs?
What is the larval stage?
The disease transmitted by tsetse flies.
What is Nagana (Sleeping Sickness)?
A disease that is consistently present in a population.
What is an endemic disease?
The toxin in Gifblaar that disrupts the Krebs Cycle.
What is monofluoroacetic acid?
A poisoning caused when nitrite reacts with haemoglobin and prevents oxygen transport.
What is nitrate poisoning?
Besides transmitting diseases, what direct effect can large numbers of ticks have on an animal?
What is blood loss (anaemia)?
The tick-borne protozoan disease also known as Redwater.
What is Babesiosis?
The type of disease outbreak that occurs across multiple countries or continents.
What is a pandemic?
The three strategies wildlife use to cope with plant toxins.
What are avoidance, dilution, and detoxification?
Deficiency of this nutrient can cause debility, weight loss, and reproductive problems.
What is protein?
Name the four stages of the tick life cycle.
What are egg, larva, nymph, and adult?
The first animal disease eradicated globally in 2011.
What is Rinderpest?