Great Diseases Of The World- Test 2 Part Ii

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The French faced many problems during the digging of the Panama Canal; the most serious of these problems were diseases especially:

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Yellow fever

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The Jungle and Urban Cycles are characteristic of which of the following diseases:

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Yellow Fever

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Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, deer rats may be infected, but in most cases they do not show disease symptoms. If a tick bites any of these rats (become infected itself) then bites Little Johnny, who starts to show symptoms of Lyme diseases 2 weeks later. The tick is considered:

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the VECTOR for Borrelia burgdorferi

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During the wars between French and Spain in 1528, the French lifted the siege on Naples because of the spread of:

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Typhus

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Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, deer rats may be infected, but in most cases they do not show disease symptoms. If a tick bites any of these rats (become infected itself) then bites Little Johnny, who starts to show symptoms of Lyme diseases 2 weeks later. The rat is considered:

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HOST of the borrelia burgdorferi

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The three forms of the Plague

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Bubonic
Septicemic
Pneumonic

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All of the following are true about the characteristics of viruses except:

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their genome is composed of BOTH DNA and RNA

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The POISON theory of cholera causes was advocated by:

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John Snow

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Zoonosis disease

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A disease that can be naturally transmitted from animals to humans

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Dengue and Dengue Haemorrahgic Fever are transmitted by the infected mosquito

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Aedes aegypti

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Miasma theory of cholera causes was advocated by

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Max von Petterkofer

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During 1347 plague, some priests were afraid to visit the sick and administer last rites. Because of this:

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This set up the Protestant Reformation

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Success of the Haitian Revolution of 1802, against the French, maybe be tributed to the large number of the French soldiers who fell victim to

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Yellow fever

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Vector responsible for transmission of bubonic plague is

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Rat fleas

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Scientists immunize a portion of the population and rely on _______ to prevent the spread of disease

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Herd Immunity

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All of the following statements about the social impact of the Black Death are true EXCEPT:

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people began bonding with each other and families

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All of the following regarding process of vaccination is true except

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Vaccination is performed by inoculating a person with material from a cowpox lesion

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Microbe causing Syphilis is:

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a bacterium

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Immune response of a patient to Dengue Fever will rely mainly on which of the following:

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BOTH humoral and cell mediated immunity

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Oral-fecal transmitted disease:

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Polio and cholera

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Infectious diseases may be spread horizontally or vertically. which disease spread both?

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Syphilis?

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The contagion/germ theory was strongly SUPPORTED and ADVOCATED by?

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Robert Koch

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Immune system of a patient infected with Syphilis will rely mainly on which of the following?

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Humoral immunity

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Which disease whose causative agent has a unique life cycle which includes the "Urban Cycle" and "Jungle Cycle"?

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Yellow Fever

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West Nile Virus is transmitted by:

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Aedes aegypti

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In the movie: Ebola: The Plague fighters, a break up of a haemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola took place in Germany. All happened except:

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None of the patients died because the virus kills only monkeys

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Examining both frozen mummies of the Incas and Ancient Egyptian, leaves no doubt that smallpox has a pre-Columbian origin in America (T/F)

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False

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In the movie Ebola: Plague Fighters, a break up Ebola infection among primate quarantine station in Reston resulted in:

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None of the patients died because the virus killed only monkeys

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The vector responsible for the transmission of WNF is:

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a mosquito

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The name "syphilis" was coined by Italian Girolmao Francastoro in his epic poem, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus. Because of outbreak in French army, it was first called 'morbus galicus' aka French disease (T/F)

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True

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Saber shin found in skeletons of mass graves is usually associated with;

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syphilis

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Van Leuwenhock was considered he 1st microbiologist because:

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He was the first to visualize and study microbes using a simple lens microscope and described it to the Royal Society