A 5-Year-Old Somali Immigrant Girl Presented to the Local Family

Multiple Choice

A 5-year-old Somali immigrant girl presented to the local Family Medicine Clinic with a 2-day history of headache, earache, and swallowing difficulty. Physical examination showed bilateral swelling of the parotid glands. She had been in this country for 4 months and had started her childhood vaccinations 2 weeks ago. The genetic nature of the pathogen causing her disease is

A) Double-stranded DNA
B) Double-stranded RNA
C) Negative-sense RNA
D) Positive-sense RNA
E) Single-stranded DNA