TB
Symptoms and infectiousness are examples of how TB disease and TB infection (LTBI)…
What are differences between TB disease and TB infection (LTBI)?
Rabies virus is transmitted through direct contact (such as through broken skin or mucous membranes in the eyes, nose, or mouth) with this bodily fluid
What is Saiva?
Illness often occurs from eating raw or undercooked shellfish or by exposing a wound to seawater
What causes Vibrio?
How long does a successful hepatitis C treatment usually take on average?
8-12 weeks
What are the three main types of Influenza
Influenza A
Influenza B
Influenza C
People only get infected with TB germs this way.
What is through the air?
The main difference between symptoms of smallpox and monkeypox is that monkeypox causes _______ to swell while smallpox does not
Lymph nodes
What are the four steps to prevent food poising?
Clean
Separate
Cook
chill
Chronic Hepatitis B & C are together are the leading cause of what in the United States?
Liver Cancer
When are people able to spread flu? Also known as the Period of Contagiousness
People with flu are most contagious in the first 3-4 days after their illness begins.
A bad cough lasting three weeks or more, pain in the chest, coughing up blood, weakness, unexplained weight loss, no appetite, chills, fever, sweating at night, blurry vision
What are symptoms of TB?
This is the amount of hours, per the Delaware code, any medical practitioner, hospital, veterinarian or other person having knowledge of a human with known or suspected exposure (i.e., a bite and/or scratch) to rabies shall report the facts.
What is 12 hours?
Name two diagnostic tests (sources) that are used to detect foodborne illnesses
Blood
Stool
What is the CDC’s screening recommendations for hepatitis C
All adults and all pregnant women during each pregnancy
What is HPAI?
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
TB disease is generally classified into these two categories, which are based on the site of disease.
What are pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB?
Monkeypox is usually a self-limited disease with the symptoms lasting this long
2 to 4 weeks
The leading cause of waterborne disease outbreaks, linked to recreational water in the United States.
Cryptosporidium
What percentage of infected people with hepatitis C can be cleared of infection with proper treatment?
Over 90%
Anyone can get flu (even healthy people), and serious problems related to flu can happen at any age, but some people are at high risk of developing serious flu-related complications if they get sick. Name three groups
People 65 years and older, people of any age with certain chronic medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, or heart disease)
Pregnant women,
Children younger than 5 years, Children are most likely to get sick from flu.
People with a history of a positive TB screening test or treatment for TB disease or LTBI are usually asked this instead of repeating a screening test.
What is a symptom screening questionnaire?
Close contacts of monkeypox cases should monitor for symptoms for __ days
21 days
A pregnant woman can transmit this parasite to her unborn child when the mother becomes infected with ______ just before or during pregnancy.
Toxoplasma
Hepatitis C testing consists of two tests to confirm a hepatitis C infections
Antibody test and RNA test
While seasonal influenza (flu) viruses are detected year-round in the United States. When is flu season in the United States?
In the United States, the flu season occurs in the fall and winter or October