Exam 4: Identifying the Challenge

Ebola is a reemerging infectious disease.

Which vectorborne disease listed below is NOT transmitted by a mosquito species?

If you have never had measles and come into contact with a person infected with measles, you have a 98% chance of being infected.

Why are elderly at greater risk of infection?

Define "reemerging infectious disease."

Which of the following is NOT an environmental factor responsible for emerging/reemerging infectious disease?

Which of the following infectious diseases is NOT transmitted by mosquitos?

Which vectorborne disease currently poses the greatest risk to humans in terms of highest number of people at risk?

Describe several of the concerns that led to the banning of triclosan and triclocarbon by the FDA.

Climate change lessens the severity of hurricanes.

The worst HIV outbreak in the US since the 1980s occurred because of:

What does the CDC stand for?

Which of the following is NOT a microbe?

What are the main causative factors of climate change leading to alterations in infectious disease incidence and distribution?

The goal of the Kyoto Protocol is to limit global temperature rise below 2^oC.

Which disease listed below was a result of deforestation to create the Central Railroad in Brazil in the early 1900s?

Name two medical advances that contribute to emerging/reemerging infectious diseases.

Deforestation contributes to infectious disease by release microbes into the environment.

An example of a technological advance that contributes to emerging/reemerging infectious disease is:

Explain in detail why increasing world population will foster an increase in infectious disease.