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Hantavirus
Ebola
Dengue Fever
Lassa Fever
Viruses
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Hantavirus strain that is endemic to North and South America.
What is hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)?
100
Fatal viral disease affecting humans and primates; a member of the filoviruses.
What is Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF)?
100
Another term for dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).
What is dengue shock syndrome (DSS)?
100
Lassa fever is endemic in large areas of this continent.
Where is Africa?
100
True or False: viruses mutate and evolve.
What is true? Viruses are able to wreak havoc on humans due to their ability to adapt and survive.
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Another name for the Four Corners virus- named for the region in the U.S. where the first outbreak occurred (Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, & Arizona).
What is the virus Sin Nombre virus (SNV)?
200
Destroys host cells quickly, releases large number of virions, cause necrosis in multiple organs, lesions affect vasculature and platelets causing bleeding in the abdomen and pericardium. Results in intractable shock, respiratory failure, and death.
What are Characteristics of Ebola?
200
Transmitter of the dengue virus.
What is the mosquito?
200
The virus causing Lassa fever.
What are the arenaviruses?
200
Viruses with animals for hosts.
What are zoonotic viruses?
300
Area where the hantavirus was first isolated in a field mouse in 1976.
What is the Hantaan River in Korea?
300
True or False: Ebola is carried by humans.
What is False. Though host is unknown, it is believed to be zoonotic, harbored within an animal native to Africa.
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Countries most affected by dengue fever call it this.
What is breakbone fever?
300
The host for Lassa fever; it transmits the disease through its urine (& other tissues if eaten by humans).
What is the Mastomys rat?
300
Theory behind origination of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
What is through a primate bite?
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The acronym UARDS. The mysterious ailment that scientists found created antibodies also produced by the hantavirus. Many young & healthy victims died; deer mice were linked as carriers of the hantavirus when deer mice droppings were found in victims homes.
What is unexplained adult respiratory distress syndrome?
400
Place Ebola was first recognized as an emerging viral infection in 1976; It was also named after a river here.
What is Zaire (or the Democratic Republic of Congo)?
400
Symptoms of dengue fever.
What are severe myalgia, arthralgia, high fever, headache, and rash on extremities? (In severe cases may also include: leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, vomiting, hypotension, hypovolemic shock and death.)
400
Transmission of Lassa fever.
What is person to person transmission? Not airborne; Lassa fever is highly contagious.
400
Two main risk factors for contracting these new emerging viral infections.
What is global travel and human contact with animals?
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Fever, myalgia, chills, and lungs filling with water after circulatory system and respiratory distress ensues. Two-thirds of cases result in death.
What are characteristics of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)?
500
Transmission of the Ebola virus.
What is person to person. (Nosocomial infections amplified by improper use of supplies or sterilization.)
500
The genus and family of the dengue virus.
What is the genus Flavivirus and the family Flaviviridae?
500
Some symptoms of Lassa fever.
What are fever, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, coughing, hypertension, confusion, and seizures?
500
Surgical technologist implications when it comes to treating patients with hemorrhagic fever.
What is using every technique available to prevent infection of the surgical team?