Transmissible cancers
Rapidly growing, often metastasize to other parts of the body
What is malignant cancer
This disease can be transmitted by pigs, bats or eating raw date palm sap contaminated with bat excretions
What is NIPAH virus
Most common cause of foodborne outbreaks, these pathogens are responsible for more than 50% of outbreaks
What are viruses
What characteristics make a good bioweapons
What are quick acting, able to survive outside the body, easily dispersed and infectious through person to person contact
Sexually transmitted disease in canines
What is transmissible venereal tumor
Geomyces destructans, renamed Pseudogymnoascus destructans, is the fungus that causes this disease in bats
What is White nose disease syndrome
The four steps to food safety
What are clean, separate, cook and chill
Anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox, tularemia and viral hemorrhagic fevers can all potentially be used for this purpose
What are bioweapons
This transmissible cancer is one of the main reasons Tasmanian devils are an endangered species
What is Tasmanian Devil facial tumor disease
This virus travels from muscles via nerve fibers to the brain and, untreated, almost always results in death
What is rabies virus
This class of pathogens is second most common cause of foodborne outbreaks
What are bacteria
This potential bioweapon can be powdered or mixed with water and sprayed and the pulmonary form is the most deadly
What is anthrax
Contagious cancers in bivalves are transmitted by this
What is water
The three stages of rabies virus
Wat are prodromal, furious and paralytic
These people are at greater risk for foodborne illness
Who are pregnant women, infants, the elderly and the immunosuppressed
The symptoms of this bacterial disease that can potentially be used as a bioweapon are similar to those of pneumonia, the flu or tuberculosis
What is glanders
Transmissible cancer that causes pulmonary adenomatosis (multiple nodular tumors in the lungs) in sheep
What is Jaagsiekte
This is how rabies virus is diagnosed
What is immunofluorescence/ Finding Negri bodies in cytoplasm of fresh brain tissue
Ways that pathogens enter the food chain
What are growing/pre harvest; production/postharvest/slaughter and final processing
These are the top four potential bioterrorist agents
What are anthrax, plague, smallpox and botulinum toxin