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Is streptococcus phyogenes alpha or beta hemolytic?
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Beta
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What is Bengue Fever also known as?
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Break-bone fever because of severe bone and joint pain
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What are the symptoms of dengue fever?
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high fever, headache, no appetite, nausea, weakness, and rash
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How is dengue fever spread?
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A mosquito carrying the flavivirus or arbovirus. There are 4 types known
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What does a tiger mosquito spread?
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Aedes Aegypti or Aedes Albopictus. Brought it to U.S.
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Who studied Yellow Fever and where were they?
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Carlos Finlay and Walter Reed in the early 1900s near the Panama Canal construction
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What is the vector and resevoir of yellow fever?
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vector = insects carrying flavivurs and aedes aegypti
reservoir = monkeys in tropical areas |
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What are the symptoms of yellow fever?
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fever, nausea, liver damage (jaundice)
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Who developed a vaccine for yellow fever?
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Max Theiller
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What is the shape of Ebola?
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Filamentous filovirus with a variable shape
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What does Ebola cause?
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hemorrhagic fever with a mortality rate
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In Zaire what was the mortality rate of ebola in 1976? 1995?
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1976 there was a 88% mortality rate
1995 150 of 200 cases died |
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How is Ebola transmitted?
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person to person
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Where was the Margburg wirus first seen?
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Germany
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What does Marburg virus cause?
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Its a filovirus that causes hemorrhages
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Who carries Marburg virus?
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Monkeys
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What carries the Phlebovirus?
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Sand fly - phlebotomus
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Where is Rift Valley Fever found?
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Africa
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What is Lassa Fever?
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hemorrhagic arenavirus
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True or False
Colorado Tick Fever is a systemic virus? |
True
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Erythrovirus causes a...
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...aplastic crisis
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What is 5th's Disease?
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Fatal Anemia - erythema infectiosum
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Coxsacie virus has affinity for what?
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the heart -- pericardium and myocardium
known as the Devil's Grip |
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What is Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever?
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A systemic arenavirus found in humans in Africa and South America
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What was the old name for Streptococcus Pneumoniae
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Diplococcus pneumoniae
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