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What term describes any arthropod or rodent capable of transmitting disease to individuals, acts as an intermediate hosts or reservoirs or affects personnel efficiency or morale?
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Vector
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What term describes an individulal potentially susceptible to illness?
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Host
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What term describes an organism where the an agent lives and multiplies?
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Resevoire
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What is any substance or mixture of substance that kills pest?
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pesticide
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What type of pesticide must be approvd by appropriate area entomologist prior to use?
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Nonstandard Pesticide
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What type of pesticide is used to control mites, scorpions, spiders and ticks?
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Acaricide
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What type of pesticide is used to control fungi?
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Fungicide
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What Act establishes the criteria for cataloging pesticides by toxicity, and label requrements?
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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rotenticide Act of 1972 (FIFRA)
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In regards to PPE for pesticides; respirators must be _______ approved
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NIOSH
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During routine use; how often does the cartridge to a respirator need to be changed when sparying pesticides?
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every 8hrs or if a pesticide odor is detected
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During heavy spraying; how often does the cartiridge of a respirator need to be changed when spraying pesticides?
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every 4 hours
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What type of Eye protection is required when working with pesticides?
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unvented, indirectly vented goggles or a face shield to prevent contamination to the eyes
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Where can the authorized shipboard pesticide list be found?
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NAVMED P-5052-26 Appendix A
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What type of poision can cause irreversible cholinesterase inhibition?
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Organophosphate poisioning
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What type of poisoning causes reversible cholinesterase inhibition?
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Carbamate poisoning
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In what type of poisoning is 2 PAM Chloride contraindicated?
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Carbamate
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What must a pesticide spill kit contain?
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*Absorbent material (diatomatious earth, sand/dirt)*
Shovel Leak proof barrel Detergent and water or chlorine bleach Approved PPE |
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What is the first priority in a pesticide spill?
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Confine spill
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What is another name for body louse?
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Pediculus Humanus Humanus
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What is another name for Head louse?
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Pediculus Humanus Capitus
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What is another name for crabs?
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Phthirus pubis
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What type of Cockroach is approx 15mm, Tan or straw colored and has two longitudinal dark stribes near the head?
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German Cockroach
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What is the most common indoor species, especially in and around food service spaces and facilities?
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German Cockroach
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How eggs per capsue do german cockroaches lay?
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50
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What cockroach is lighter in color that the german cockroach, is less thant 15mm, has two yellow bands near the base of the adult wings and two transverse light bands on the the dorsal surface of the nymphs?
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Brown-banded cockroach
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What type of cockroach is not considered a food service nuisance?
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Brown-banded cockroach
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What type of coachroach is dark reddish brown, 35mm long and the anterior dorsal plate behind the head has a conspicous yellow posterior border strip?
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American cockroach
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What type of cockroach prefers particularily filthy habitis, frequently moves form shelter or breeding areas to food sources?
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American cockroach
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What type of cockroach is dark brown to black is 1 to 1 1/2 inches long and has rudimentary wings reduced to small lobes?
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Oriental cockroaches
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What type of cockroach prefers filthy places such as sewers, yards and outbuildings, cool damp basements, under skins and refrigerators?
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Oriental cockroaches
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What is the chemical control for cockroaches?
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combat LD50-131-1300 PPM
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What stored product pest is less common than beetles, though is able to readily infest all farinaceous products with larve and have a copper luster on the outer two-thirds of their wings?
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Indian meal moth
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What stored pest is shiny, flattended reddish brown color, is 3.5 mm in length and it's head & upper parts of thorax are densely covered with minute pitting?
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Red/ confused flour beetle
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What type of beetle has 3 terminal antennae segments distinctly larger than other segments?
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Red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum)
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What type of beetle has 3 terminal antennae segments that gradually increase in size?
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Confused Four Beetle (Triboliuim confusum)
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What type of beetle is a trogoderma that is oval shaped and reddish-brown with pale markings on wing covers?
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Dermestid beetle (KHAPRA BEETLE)
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What's significant about the larvae of the dermestid beetle(Khapra Beetle)?
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It has countless hairs that cause intestinal problems when ingested.
It's also resistant to starvation |
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What is the most common stored product pest aboard ship?
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Saw-Tooth Grain Beetle
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What products have high insect infestation potential?
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macaroni (he fucking talked about this for an hour)
grits cornmeal farina dry mix barely cookie and cake mix flour dry beans peas ready to eat cereal |
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What's the criteria for something to be "lightly infested"
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<7 insects/lb
<3 Triboium(four) beetles/lb |
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How do you treat lightly infested food?
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Place in freezer x 3 days then use immediately
*two weeks to kill all life stages |
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What is the cirteria for food to be unfit for human consumption?
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1 or more Dermestid sp (live or dead)
>=3 Tribolium/lb >=7 insects/lb |
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What's the life stages of a fly?
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Eggs>>Larvae(maggots)>>Pupa>>Adult
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What type of fly has a global distribution, vomits on food then laps it up and is a good mechanical vector capable of spreading dysentery?
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house fly
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What type of fly is also know as the blue-bottle and green bottle fly?
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blow fly
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What type of fly lays eggs where there is an abundance of organic matter?
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sand fly
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What type of fly is small moth like, its body/wings are densly covered with hair and the females have piercing mouthparts for sucking blood?
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sand fly
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What diseases are transmitted by sand flies?
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Bartonellosis (bacterial)
Sand fly fever (viral) Leishmaniasis (protozoa) |
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What type of fly is restricted to the aftican continent and is easily recognizable by the way they fold their wings in scissor like fashion when resting?
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Tse tse fly
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What type of fly is capable of transmitting the protozoan disease trypanosomiasis?
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Tse tse fly
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What fly is capable of inflicting large bite wounds and transmits filarial parasites such as onchocerciasis?
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black fly
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What fly is a robust insect with powerful wings and is capable of inflicinting exceedingly painful bites?
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Horse or deer fly
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What fly is very small, have a predilection for eye secretions, wounds and pus and feed on decaying organic material, including feces?
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eye gnat
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What mosquito is Lyre-shaped with silver-white lines on the thorax and white bands on the trasal segments?
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Aedes aegypti
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What mosquito lays its eggs singly on the side of containers or above the water line?
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Aedes aegypti
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What disease is assoicatd with the anopheles mosquito?
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Malaria
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What dieseases are associated with the Culex mosquito?
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Encephalopyelitis
West Nile encephalitis |
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What is the cheif vector of bubonic plage and flea-borne typhus?
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Oriental Rat Flea
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How do you treat yards and under structures when treating for the Oriental Rat Flea?
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Treat with residual emusions
Spray foundation to a height of 2-3 feet |
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What tick is a vecor for Rickettsia disease such as rocky mountain spotted fever, Tick-borne typhus and lyme disease?
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Hard Ticks
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What tick is identifiable by a distinct hard covering called scutum?
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Hard Ticks
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What type of tick hides in cracks and crevices in houses or nests of their hosts and come out at night?
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Soft ticks
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How may times do the larva and nymph of soft ticks feed before molting?
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several times
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In what tick does the female take a single blood meal before laying a single large batch of eggs?
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Hard Ticks
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What pest is transmitted by close contact, overcroweded areas and burrows into the horny layer of the epidermis, causing intense itching and occasional erythema?
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scabies or itch mite
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What pest infest warm blooded animals including man, are not known to vector any human disease and affect morale?
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Bedbugs
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What are the normal hiding places for bed bugs?
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seams of mattresses
Bedding |
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What are the other fucking names for norway rats?
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rattus norvegicus
brown rat house rat sewer rat |
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What is the most common and largest of domestic rats?
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the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus)
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What rat has is heavy set, has coarse fur, weighs 10-17 oz, has a tail that is shorter than the body and head combined?
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Norway rat
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Large capsule shapped fecal dropings are the characteristic of what rat?
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Norway rat
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What another name for a roof rat?
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Rattus Rattus
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What rat is frequently found on ships, is an agile climber and seeks harborage indoors in overhead spaces?
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Roof Rat (Rattus Rattus)
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What is the smallest domestic rodent?
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House Mouse
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What rodent has small and rod shaped fecal droppings?
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House mouse
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What are the methods of rodent control?
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Elimiante food water and shelter
Rat guards Lighted gangways Pier side inspection of oncoming stores Traps |
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What instruction is the Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Program?
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BUMEDNOTE 6210
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What are three reasons you need a current SSCEC/SSCC?
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Environmental Health Surveys
Medical Readiness Evaluations Entering Foreign Ports |
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How long are SSCEC/SSCC valid?
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6 months, can extend for one month by original issuer
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What is the mnimum outside diameter for rat guards?
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36 inches
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How should rat guards be places?
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at least 6 feet from the pier, cone should face the ship
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How long do saw-tooth grain beetles live?
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adults 6-10 months
some can live to 3 years |
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Who is required to plan and recommend vector control measures and to determine that all pesticides are applied safely?
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Medical Department
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What term describes chemicals that enter in gaseeous or vapor form via respiratory system and or body surfaces?
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Fumigants
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What is the treatment for carbamate poisoning?
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2-4 mg atropine IV
Repeat q 5-10 min until atropinaization maintain treatment x 24 hrs |
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How many capsules will a german cockrach lay in it's lifetime?
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6 capsule
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What is the treatment for all cockroaches?
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store food properly
Garbage containers should have tight fitting lids food restricted from berthing reeducation in food sources |
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What do you use to survey for cockroaches?
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Pyrethrum or d-phenothrin - will drive them from their hiding places
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How many eggs will a Dermestid lay in her lifetime?
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100
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When sampling food items what would you observe for?
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Seams in sacks
insect feces cast skins adult inseccts pinholes webbing larval forms |
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How often should you conduct stored product pest surveys?
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monthly on all food storage spaces
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What pest is implicated in myiasis?
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The Blow Fly
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When are anophelines active?
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night
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What pest is pervalent in summer and fall and is scarce in the winter?
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oriental rat flea
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What is the treatment for parasitic mites on man?
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*Elimite*
Heat sterilization of clothing and bedding |
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What should you do to food infested with mites?
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Dispose of that shit
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