You Just Returned from a Hiking/camping Trip and Are Experiencing

Multiple Choice

You just returned from a hiking/camping trip and are experiencing symptoms of an infection: high fever, swollen lymph nodes, and black-and-blue marks or hemorrhages under the skin. Your doctor asks if you have been in the four corners area of the United States (where the states of Arizona, colorado, New Mexico, and Utah all meet) . What does the doctor suspect?

A) You might have picked up the plague bacterium from ?eas that normally feed on rodents in that area.
B) Those four states have high rates of Chikungunya, which is what the doctor suspects that you have.
C) Hemorrhagic fever is often associated with bats in that region of the United States.
D) Since there are many mosquitoes in that area, you might have been infected with Plasmodium.