Exam 22: One Health: the Interconnected Health of the Environment, humans, and Other Animals

Which term is used to describe a novel,chemically synthesized compound that does not occur naturally but can be made to be biodegradable?

A clinic nurse at the county health department provides health counseling for a 26-year-old male who will be traveling internationally. The nurse consults the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccination recommendations for the specific areas to which he is traveling. The man has many questions about the vaccines as well as infectious disease prevention. -The presence of coliforms necessarily indicates the presence of fecal matter. 

A clinic nurse at the county health department provides health counseling for a 26-year-old male who will be traveling internationally. The nurse consults the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccination recommendations for the specific areas to which he is traveling. The man has many questions about the vaccines as well as infectious disease prevention. -The nurse educates the traveler about markers of fecal contamination,as he is bringing a water indicator kit that tests for coliforms.The nurse advises that the kit may not detect other fecal pathogens.Which of the following organisms are coliforms?

Which of the following is least likely to transmit cholera?

Which of the following did not contribute to the outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the Southwest during the 1990s?

Primary sewage treatment includes ________.

After secondary treatment,treated wastewater can usually be safely released into nearby bodies of waters.

In which step of water purification does water move through sand beds and activated charcoal?

Which of the following activities/processes depends upon the activities of microbes?

Backyard composting in either a pile or a bin is generally an ________ process.

The breakdown of man-made compounds by decomposers is called ________.

The incidence of which disease is most likely to be impacted as a result of increased rainfall?

Agricultural water run-off,rich in nitrates,ammonia,and phosphates,may be treated to remove these chemicals so that the treated water does not support algal blooms. Such treatment is an example of ________.

What two strategies are used in the United States to ensure potable drinking water?

Which of the statements about the emergence of HIV/AIDS is incorrect?

Coliforms,used as indicator bacteria,are gram-negative bacteria that ferment lactose and produce gas.

Which of the following statements describes the cause of the hantavirus pulmonary syndrome outbreak in the Southwest during the 1990s,demonstrating the interconnected web of human health,animal health and environmental health?

Which of the following has been chemically modified to make it biodegradable?

There are cities in the United States that obtain drinking water from the same river in which sewage was disposed of upstream.

Biodegradable plastics or plastic substitutes exist today that can be composted.