Glander's Disease

General information

100

This bacteria causes Glanders.

What is Burkholderia mallei?

200

This is the group that Glanders must be reported to.

What is USDA/WOAH?

300

This is the incubation period for Glanders.

2-6 weeks

400

This is a potential risk factor for Glanders.

What is age, overcrowding, poor climate and biosecurity?

500

These species serve as a resevoir for Glanders?

What are donkeys, mules, and wild horses?

Clinical signs

100

This is how a definitive diagnosis is made.

What is direct culture from affected sites?

200

This may potentially occur with the chronic form of Glanders.

What is a carrier? (However, it's usually fatal)

300

This is generally the first clinical sign, though it is commonly missed.

What is a fever?

400

This form of Glanders causes crater-shaped ulcers around the muzzle and limbs, where nodules frequently become ulcerated and drain a thick yellow discharge. 

What is the Cutaneous form?

500

This is how Glanders is treated in equids.

Euthanasia

Fun Facts

100

True or false: is Glanders zoonotic?

True!

200

These are two other names for Glanders.

What is Farcy and Malleus?

300

A vaccine has been tested for this species.

What are humans?

400

These species are resistant to Glanders (name one).

What are cattle/pigs/rabbits/lab rats?

500

This is how the bacteria causing Glanders was used as a bioterrorism threat.

B. mallei was used against military horses and people starting in WWI

Areas

100

This is how Glanders is transmitted.

What is direct contact?

200

This is a continent where Glanders is endemic.

What is Asia/Africa/Middle East/Central America/South America?

300

This is a region where the disease is eradicated?

What is North America/Europe/Australia?

400

This country had it's first occurrence of Glanders in 2010. 

What is Bahrain?

500

This country had a re-emergence of Glanders in 2009.

What is Brazil?