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What does vaccination provide? |
Artificial immunity via safe exposure to a specific pathogenic microbe |
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What public health measures exist? What disease did one measure almost eradicate? |
1. Public sanitation 2. Chlorination of the water supply almost eradicated typhoid |
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What social measures can be worked towards to decrease infection? |
1. Improved housing 2. Reduction of poverty and overcrowding |
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What does hand washing help to protect from? |
1. Diarrheal disease 2. Flu and colds |
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What are the most lethal bacterial disease types? |
1. Diarrheal - 22% 2. Lower respiratory tract - 47% 3. TB - 20% |
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Why has antibiotic resistance emerged? |
1. Pressure on doctors to prescribe 2. Patients being prescribed antibiotics for little reason 3. Use in animals for growth and protection - resistance enters humans via food chain |
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What resulted in increased salmonella antibiotic resistance humans? |
Use of enrofloxacin - a fluroquinone which resulted in salmonella becoming resistant to the antibiotic quinolone |
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What was the most prominent animal outbreak of the 21st century? |
Avian flu - H5N1 Facilitated by bird migration. |
