Bugs

Question 1

Anopheles Mosquito Vector

Answer 1

Malaria

Question 2

Anopheles Mosquito Activity

Answer 2

Nighttime

Question 3

Aedes Vector

Answer 3

Chikungunya
Dengue
Yellow fever
Zika

Question 4

Aedes Activity

Answer 4

most active during the day, about two hours after sunrise and several hours before sunset

Question 5

Tsetse Fly Vector

Answer 5

African trypanosomes (sleeping sickness)

Question 6

Tsetse fly bite characteristics

Answer 6

Painful and chancre may develop at bite location.

Question 7

Tsetse Activity

Answer 7

Day. Most Active first two hours and the last two hours of the day

Question 8

Sand Fly Activity

Answer 8

Dusk till dawn

Question 9

Sand Fly Vector

Answer 9

Leishmaniasis

Question 10

Sand Fly bite

Answer 10

central crater (ulcer),

Question 11

Reduviid Bug Vector

Answer 11

Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease

Question 12

Culex Mosquito Vector

Answer 12

West Nile Virus (WNV)
St. Louis Encephalitis Virus (SLEV)
Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV)

Question 13

Reduviid Bug Vector Activity

Answer 13

Night

Question 14

Culex Mosquito Activity

Answer 14

Dusk till dawn

Question 15

Deer Fly Vector

Answer 15

Loa loa

Question 16

Black Fly Vector

Answer 16

Onchocerciasis, also known as “river blindness”

Question 17

Typhus fevers Vector

Answer 17

fleas, lice, and chiggers (Rat Fleas)

Question 18

Tick Vector

Answer 18

African Tick borne Fever
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Mediterranean Spotted Fever
Tick Borne Enceplalitis

Question 19

Ixodes Tick Vector

Answer 19

Lyme Disease

Question 20

Two forms of African Trypanosomiasis, Location, Prevalence?

Answer 20

Rhodesiense East Africa, mainly Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. (Most travelers)

Gambiense - Central Africa - 98%

Question 21

What is Winterbotom’s sign? Significance?

Answer 21

Swelling on the back of the neck.

African trypanosomiasos

Question 22

Transient migratory, subcutaneous, painful, or pruritic nodules

Answer 22

Loa Loa - Caabar Swelling -swelling) produced by adult nematode migration through the skin.

Question 23

Loa Loa vector

Answer 23

Deer Fly

Question 24

African Eye Wormk (AKA)

Answer 24

Loa Loa

Question 25

What is the most common cause of Traveler’s Diarrhea?

Answer 25

Bacterial infections are short-lived and self-limited.

Question 26

Persiststant Diarrhea cause

Answer 26

Protozoan Parasites

Question 27

What is the most common Parasitic Pathogen?

Answer 27

Giardia is the most likely persistent parasitic pathogen.

Question 28

Contraindications to Air Travel

Answer 28

<3 weeks after an uncomplicated myocardial infarction
<10 days after thoracic or abdominal surgery.