other

Question 1

T/F DNBI takes more soldiers out of the fight than the enemy

Answer 1

T

Question 2

DNBI

Answer 2

disease and non battle injuries

Question 3

epidemiology

Answer 3

study of disease occurences

Question 4

3 links by which disease transmitted

Answer 4

reservoir (source)
vehicle (mode of trans via direct or indirect)
Host (susceptible person, becomes host later)

Question 5

Anthopophilic

Answer 5

transmitted from person to person

Question 6

Zoonotic

Answer 6

transmited from animal to person

Question 7

reverse zoonotic

Answer 7

trans from person to animal

Question 8

geophilic

Answer 8

trans from soil or non living to person

Question 9

Vector

Answer 9

carrier that is usually arthropodor rodent (can be human) that transmits causative organisms of disease from infected to non infected individuals

Question 10

mortality rate

Answer 10

number of peopl who die from a disease in a specific population

Question 11

case fatality rate

Answer 11

number people sick w/ a specific disease that die

Question 12

endemic

Answer 12

constant in 1 area

Question 13

epidemic

Answer 13

occurence in a community or region of an outbreak, clearly in excess of expectations

Question 14

The time during which an infectious agent may be transferred directly or indirectly from anthropophilic or zoonotic

Answer 14

Communicable period

Question 15

A person or animal that harbors and actively transmits a disease. Has an active infection, but may not show signs and symptoms. (typhoid mary)

Answer 15

What is a carrier?

Question 16

What is the carrier for the plague?

Answer 16

Flea (feces- internal vector borne)

Question 17

What is a fomite?

Answer 17

An inanimate object which can transmit disease

Question 18

What is a reservoir?

Answer 18

The source of the disease, on which the infectious agent lives and depends on, and reproduces itself in a manner that is can be transmitted. (anthropophilic, zoonotic, geophilic)

Question 19

Vehicle?

Answer 19

Mode of disease transmission, either through direct or indirect

Question 20

What is direct transmission?

Answer 20

Contact, aerosol drops (sneezing/coughing), body fluids

Question 21

What is the number one cause of respiratory infection?

Answer 21

Aerosol drops

Question 22

What is indirect transmission?

Answer 22

Vehicle, fomite or vector borne

either external or internal

Question 23

The filth fly transmits indirectly using what methods?

Answer 23

External (by landing) and Internal (by regurgitation)

Question 24

Scabies burrowing in skin and defecating is an example of which type of Indirect transmission?

Answer 24

Internal harborage (Infective agent is not altered)

Question 25

Anopheles mosquito vectoring malaria is an example of which type of indirect transmission?

Answer 25

Internal biological (infective agent is altered by to vector to transmit to humans)

Question 26

A vector transmitting from one person to another is what type of infection?

Answer 26

Horizontal

Question 27

A mother transmitting to her unborn child is what type of infection?

Answer 27

Lateral

Question 28

What is a host?

Answer 28

Someone who does not possess the resistance needed to fend off a disease.

Question 29

What is a way to prevent many diseases?

Answer 29

Personal Hygiene combined with personal protective measures

Question 30

What is Isolation?

Answer 30

Separation of infected person during the period of communicability

Question 31

What is Quarantine?

Answer 31

Restriction of activity of well person or animals who have been exposed to a communicable disease during the communicable period

Question 32

What are methods of environmental sanitation?

Answer 32

Safeguard food and water Proper waste disposal Control insects and animals

Question 33

What is contamination?

Answer 33

Presence of infectious agent on different surfaces

Question 34

What is cleaning?

Answer 34

Removal of infectious agent by washing with hot soap and water

Question 35

What is disinfection?

Answer 35

Killing the infectious agent with bleach or chlorine

Question 36

What PPM of bleach to disinfect drinking water?

Answer 36

2-3 ppm

Question 37

What PPM of bleach to disinfect surfaces?

Answer 37

10ppm

Question 38

What will immunizations reduce?

Answer 38

Host susceptibility

Question 39

What is chemoprophylaxis?

Answer 39

Administration of drugs to prevent and eliminate transmission

Question 40

How is typhoid transmitted?

Answer 40

``` Contaminated water/food Shellfish Raw fruits and vegetables grown in infected soil Dairy products Flies ```

Question 41

chain of infection

Answer 41

resevoir to vehicle to host

Question 42

typhoid resevoir

Answer 42

man rarely domestic animals