Chapter 12: Bacteria
Black Death or Yersinia Pestis is better known as this particular bacteria-based disease
Plague
These are the three types of Influenza
A, B, C
This specific arthropod is the primary carrier of malaria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl4oAIzHT_k&ab_channel=Jessica
Mosquito
Sick building syndrome - the rampant inhabitation of fungus inside of homes and growing throughout walls is typically caused by what natural disaster?
Flooding
Name 3 common practices to avoid foodborne illnesses when preparing or serving food.
clean/sanitizing, cooking food to temp, separating raw from cooked foods
Pertussis - a respiratory airborne bacterial disease - is a particular threat to young children, and is otherwise known as this!
Whooping Cough
The first polio virus vaccine, the *********** vaccine was introduced in the 1950s and used three killed strains of the polio virus.
Salk
This former president is also responsible for significant medical brigade efforts to eradicate Neglected Tropical Disease's across the globe.
President Jimmy Carter
This common fungal infection is known to cause circled raised areas on the skin, can be transmitted from humans to pets, and is not a helminth at all.
Meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges, which is a thin outer connective tissue layer that surrounds which two organs?
Brain and spinal cord
This bacterial STI, often asymptomatic, has the highest occurrence in the United States, and can possibly lead to infertility.
Chlamydia
The MMR vaccine protects people against which three diseases, up to over 90% average efficacy.
Measles, mumps, rubella
This protozoa infection is known to be sourced from cat feces and undercooked meat, known to cause complications during pregnancy and potential growth defects in the affected child postpartum.
Toxoplasmosis
How can pinworms be tested for at home? (Daily Double)
The scotch tape test
This metallic apparatus acts as a respirator, and has been a method of treating complications of polio for decades.
Iron lung
Anthrax and Tetanus are both known as "------borne" diseases due to the naturally occurring area from which they are transmitted.
Soil
Schistosomiasis is spread by a helminth larvae invading which kind of animal (the intermediate host) in a water source?
Snails
This helminth infection grows 8-12 inch roundworms that mature in the small intestine
Ascariasis
Prion diseases are known as Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. What phenomenon is occurring within brain cells when infected with prions?
Overfilling of water/fluid in the brain cells, such as a sponge effect.
This specific food contains clostridium, which can be known to cause infant botulism, and thus should be avoided by infants. What is this food?
Honey
The anthrax scare/bioterrorist attack came nearly immediately after what significant event in United States history?
9/11 September 11th attacks
These are the two type cases of rabies, both of which are highly fatal:
Furious, Dumb/paralytic
Chagas disease was eradicated in Uruguay in the 1990's partly by replacing thatch roofs with what?
Metal roofs.
The subject of Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery focuses on the Fore people practicing cannibalism in the mid 20th century. What country do they live in?
Papua New Guinea
Why is Hawaii the only state that is rabies free?
Strict policy on importing animals, prevention allowing/importing sick animals into the state