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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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Refers to organisms, primarily arthropods and rodents
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DEFINITION OF A VECTOR
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Who must attend pest control training?
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THE SEL MDR & PMT Corpsman
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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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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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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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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 a Tabanus, Chrysops, etc.?
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Horse and Deer Fly
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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 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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Which vectors transmits Q fever and endemic relapsing fever, and Lyme disease?
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Ticks
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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 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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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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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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