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WHAT IS CHAPTER 8 OF THE MANUAL OF NAVAL PREVENTIVE MEDICINE?
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MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY AND PEST CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
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WHAT DOES (DVECC) STAND FOR?
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Disease Vector Ecology and Control Centers
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Refers to organisms, primarily arthropods and rodents
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DEFINITION OF A VECTOR
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Provides specialized support in the area of stored products pest management
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Entomologist
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Who must attend pest control training?
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THE SEL MDR & PMT Corpsman
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How often is shipboard pest control training conducted?
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Once a year.
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Is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest
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Definition of Pesticides
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Aracnicides, avicides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, molluscicides, nematocides, rodenticides
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Are Shipboard Pesticides
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A substance used to control mites, scorpions, spiders, ticks and related organisms
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Aracnicides
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A substance used to control fungi
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Fungicides
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A substance used to control un-desired vegetation
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Herbicides
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A substance used to control insects, sometimes used in a broader sense to include the control of arthropods other than insects.
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Insecticide
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Used to control the adult stage of an insect
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Adulticide
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Used to control the larval stage of an insect.
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Larvicide
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Used against the egg stage of an insect.
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Ovicide
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Used to control snails and other mollusks
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Molluscicide
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Used to control rodents.
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Rodenticide
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Are compounds of mineral origin and mainly include arsenic, copper, mercury, sulfur or zinc
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Inorganic pesticides
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Are a group of synthetic organic compounds with one or more chlorine atoms. Chlordane, dieldrin, and DDT are examples
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Chlorinated hydrocarbons
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Synthetic compounds containing phosphorous
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Organophosphates
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Are synthetic compounds of salts or esters of carbamic acid. Carbaryl and propoxur are examples
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Carbamates
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Are pesticides of plant origin. Pyrethrums and rotenone are examples.
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Botanical
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They are effective for penetrating cracks and crevices. They may be used around electrical equipment or power
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Oil Solutions
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Consists of droplets of an emulsifiable pesticide dispersed in a diluent in such
a way as to prevent separation of the two components |
Emulsions
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Are preparations of pesticide impregnated into particles of highly
absorptive clays and earths which are graded by sizes ranging from coarse pebble-like pellets to those with a consistency of fine sand |
Granules/Pellets
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This miscellaneous grouping includes the application of pesticides by brush or roller, as a paste, grease, or cream, or as solid formulations which vaporize slowly in air.
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Nonparticle pesticides.
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Are materials that enhance the effectiveness of basic toxicant chemicals by altering their physical or chemical characteristics
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Additives
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Used only in airtight spaces which prevent dissipation
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Gases and Vapors
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Suspension of liquid or solid particles in air
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Aerosols
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Are dispersed particles in which the particles are intermediate in size
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Mists
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Spray droplets are considered to be from 100 to 400 microns in diameter
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Fine Sprays
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Consist of droplets over 400 microns in diameter
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Coarse Sprays
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What is Highly Toxic? (How much does it take to administer death)
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0-50 mg/kg
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What is Moderately Toxic? (How much does it take to administer death)
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50-500 mg/kg
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What is a Musca domestics?
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A House fly
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What is a (Calliphora, Chrysomya, Lucilia, Phaenicia, Phormia, etc.)?
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Blow Fly
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What is a (Sarcophagi and Wohlfahrtia)?
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Flesh Fly
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What is Glossina spp.?
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Tsetse Fly
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What is Phlebotomus spp.?
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Sand Fly
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What is a Simulium spp.?
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Black Fly
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What is a Tabanus, Chrysops, etc.?
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Horse and Deer Fly
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What is a Hippelates?
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Eye gnat
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First in importance among the insects that transmit disease to man
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Mosquitoes
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Generally most frequently associated with disease transmission, mosquitoes are
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Aedes, Anopheles and Culex
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Are responsible for the transmission of louse-borne typhus, trench fever and louse-borne relapsing fever.
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Human Lice
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What is termed pediculosis?
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Human Lice
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Are probably the most common and persistently troublesome arthropod
pest encountered indoors |
Cockroaches
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What is a Blatella germanica?
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German Cockroach
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What is a Supella longipalpa?
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Brown-banded cockroach
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What is a Periplaneta americana?
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American cockroach
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What is a Periplaneta australasiae?
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Australian cockroach
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They are known to transmit diseases to man and animals.
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Ticks
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Which vectors transmits Q fever and endemic relapsing fever, and Lyme disease?
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Ticks
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What is Rhipicephalus sanguineus?
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The brown dog tick
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What is Xenopsylla cheopis?
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The oriental rat flea
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What vector transmits the Plague?
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The oriental rat flea
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What vector causes ulcerating lesions on the feet of man and of animals?
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Burrowing flea
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What is Tunga Penetrans?
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Burrowing flea
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What flea needs an animal hosts to breed?
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Sand Flea
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What vectors may serve as reservoirs for plague, endemic typhus, tularemia and other debilitating diseases?
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Rodents such as rats, mice and
ground squirrels |
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What vector causes the most damage from contamination of supplies?
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Rodents
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What is a Rattus norvegicus?
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The Norway, brown or gray rat,
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What is Rattus rattus alexandrines?
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The Roof rat
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What is Mus musculus?
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The house rat
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What are the measurements for rodent proofing all necessary openings for all structures that are built?
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28 gauge 95 mm (3/8 in) mesh galvanized hardware
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How does the Navy prevent rodents from boarding ships?
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Rat Guards
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What is the minimum diameter of a rat guard?
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36 in diameter
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Where should the rat guard be mounted?
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At least 6 feet from the closet point on shore or ship.
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What certifies a Navy vessel that there is no rats, on-board?
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Deratization Certification
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Where are the requirements for Deratization certification found?
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NAVMEDCOMINST 6250.7
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What Clinical manifestations include anaphylactic shock, hemolysis, necrosis, paralysis, cardiopulmonary dysfunction, allergenic asthma?
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Common Venomous Arthropods
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Vesicating come from what?
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blister beetles
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Neurotoxic come from what?
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black widow spiders
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Cytolytic come from what?
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brown recluse spider
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Hemolytic come from what?
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horse flies
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Are fast moving, dorso-ventrally flat, elongate arthropods having one pair of legs per body segment.
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Centipedes
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These arthropods are slow moving, rounded, elongated arthropods with two pairs of legs per body segment
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Millipedes
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Are venomous arachnids that rarely sting man, and then, only when provoked?
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Scorpions
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Considered dangerous because of the hemolytic and neurotoxic
venom properties |
Scorpions
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Tachypnea, tachycardia, nausea, Glycosuria, epigastric pain and tenderness, excessive salivation, slurred speech, tissue discoloration and necrosis, are what?
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Scorpion bites
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Are venomous arachnids and in most cases are considered to be beneficial because they feed on other arthropods
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Spiders
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May cause mild to severe contact dermatitis, nodular conjunctivitis, respiratory pain, headache and convulsions
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Caterpillars
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