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36 Cards in this Set
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List 4 new emerging virsues |
1. Ebola 2. Monkey pox 3. West Nile virus 4. SARS |
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Where is the hot zone for Ebola; where have more people died than anywhere else? |
Liberia |
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In order to curtail the spread of Ebola, what screen do they do of everyone coming in and out? |
take their temperature; fever is an early symptom of Ebola
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How do workers in Liberia kill the Ebola virus? |
spray everyone with chlorine |
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Despite treating more than 200 patients, how many staff at the Ebola treatment center in Liberia have been effected? |
0 |
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In sweltering heat and high humidity, how much and with what do the workers cover their bodies to protect them from Ebola? |
cover every inch of their bodies in plastic and rubber armor |
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The workers are so hard to recognize with all of their coverings that they have to write their names where? |
on their foreheads |
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What treatment must patients get early on to have a chance to beat the virus? |
IV fluids, otherwise organs become destroyed |
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An American nurse at the Ebola treatment center in Liberia said we should not be so afraid because? |
there are protocols to protect yourself and they know what they are doing to contain it
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What caused this incredible outbreak of Ebola, when in May workers thought it was going to subside? |
a few contagious people were missed, and they traveled and infected others
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What animal do doctors think harbors the Ebola virus? |
fruit bat |
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Clinical trials are now underway for a treatment for Ebola called what? |
ZMAPP |
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Where is the lab that is making the treatment ZMAPP for Ebola? |
Canada
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What kind of trial is needed to test ZMAPP effectively? |
randomized, a small amount is now ready for a trial in Liberia
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Where are the plants grown that can produce ZMAPP? |
Kentucky
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What plant is being grown to produce ZMAPP? |
a special variety of tobacco; not the kind you smoke or chew
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Describe what the plants are making to fight Ebola? |
they make antibodies to help people's immune system fight viruses
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How many people can be cured by the ZMAPP process? |
dozens |
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Why do we have so little of the drug? |
only the US government was interested in the MAPP company money, not venture capitalists.
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What is the biomedical research authority (BARTA) -- who runs it, and what is it for, and give examples of what diseases have been conquered? |
governments own pharmaceutical company to create antidotes for bioterror |
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List 5 factors that are leading to the emergence of new infectious diseases |
1. human causes: ecological damage & close contact to wildlife 2. industrialized agriculture 3. international travel 4. international distribution 5. sexual behavior |
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List 5 challenges of the flu virus |
1. virus mutation 2. vaccine must be changed frequently 3. new lethal strains 4. bird flu 5. H1N1 |
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List the 4 responses that public health takes in response to new emerging diseases or bioterrorism threats |
1. global surveillance 2. veterinary surveillance 3. reduce inappropriate of antibiotics 4. need for new vaccines
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Describe the early AIDS patients in the US? What year were they discovered? |
gay men with lung infections |
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What part of the immune system did the early AIDS patients no longer have? |
helper T cells |
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What new type of AIDS patients were found in the Bronx in 1981? |
IV drug users |
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How did the baby get AIDS? |
from a blood donor |
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How did the Reagan administration effect the work of the CDC on AIDS? |
they severely cut funds; they had to steal equipment and find funds |
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Where did HIV actually evolve? |
from a chimpanzee virus somewhere in Central Africa |
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What kind of transmission was it that led to HIV in humans? |
cross-species |
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The transmission event that lead to HIV happened when? |
In 1930, pox vaccinations were given using the same needles repeatedly |
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A frozen sample confirmed that the first confirmed death from AIDS occurred when and where? |
1959 in the Congo |
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Dr. Ho and his team developed a radical new treatment for AIDS that involved doing what with drugs? |
He was to combine drugs and use multiple drugs so HIV cannot replicate and develop resistance |
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What happened when the first patient was given the triple cocktail to his viral load? |
undetectable |
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When did science announce the triple cocktail? |
1996 |
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With the new anti-viral drugs, what happened to AIDS patients? |
People were able to live with AIDS and go back to work |
