QUESTION 1
- Ignaz Semmelweiss is known for which of the following?
A. | determining that contaminated medical equipment was causing child bed fever | |
B. | developing a smallpox vaccine based on a cowpox variant
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C. | Shutting down the broad street pump | |
D. | Discovered the association between draining swamps and preventing malaria | |
E. | Created the germ theory |
QUESTION 2
- Provide a 1 sentence definition for the following:
Incubation period:
Reservoir:
Morbidity:
Mortality:
QUESTION 3
- Describe the epidemiological transition.
QUESTION 4
- What is the difference between Public Health and Medicine
QUESTION 5
- What is the difference between a case-control study and a cohort study (
QUESTION 6
- In your own words, how are R0 and herd immunity related to each other?
QUESTION 7
- Provide a 1 sentence definition for the following (3pts all or nothing)
Endemic:
Epidemic:
Pandemic:
QUESTION 8
- Chronic Diarrhea can result in a ‘straightening’ of the intestines, why is this bad?
QUESTION 9
- (True/False) The Miasma theory suggests that noxious forms of air cause diseases.
True
False
QUESTION 10
- Roughly ______ of travelers will develop diarrhea during a trip of approximately 2 weeks
30% | ||
50% | ||
70% | ||
90% |
QUESTION 11
- Epidemiologist describe populations based on person, place and ________
QUESTION 12
- Which diarrheal disease has the telltale symptom of “rice water diarrhea”?
QUESTION 13
- List three factors that are contributing to the emergence of infectious diseases. (3pts)
QUESTION 14
- Explain in detail the difference between antigenic shift and drift
QUESTION 15
- (True/False) The small pox vaccine confers protection against monkey pox.)
True
False
QUESTION 16
- Both SARS and MERS- CoV are what type of virus?
QUESTION 17
- List out the three clinical presentations of anthrax and include the mortality rate for each. Also label which one is the most common. (4pts)
QUESTION 18
- (True/False) Ebola transmission primarily occurs through inhaling infectious particles.)
True
False
- In your own words, what makes the 2019 Ebola outbreak in DRC more complicated than the 2014 outbreak in West Afrca
QUESTION 20
- What does BSL stand for, and which BSL type (1-4) is most secure.
QUESTION 21
- List three characteristics of an infectious agent that will make it categorized as a bioterror threat.
QUESTION 22
- (True/False) Prion diseases are not considered contagious)
True
False
QUESTION 23
- How does a majority of Arenavirus transmission occur?
QUESTION 24
- What is the difference between inoculation and vaccination?
QUESTION 25
- In three to four sentences, explain how IgG and IgM work
QUESTION 26
- Explain what is happening to the disease for each R0.
- Ro<1
- Ro=1
- Ro>1
QUESTION 27
- Which oral vaccine causes shedding of virus in feces which results in infection with a wild type variant, that ultimately can cause some forms of paralysis. _______________
QUESTION 28
- (True/False) The herd immunity threshold for measles is 94% vaccine coverage.
True
False
QUESTION 29
- According to our lecture, how many possible variants of influenza are there _______
QUESTION 30
- What role do pigs play in influenza virus reassortment? 3 points
QUESTION 31
- What variant of Influenza was responsible for the Spanish Flu of 1918?
QUESTION 32
- List out three risk factors associated with ARI
QUESTION 33
- What occupation was at highest risk of Hendra virus infection in Australia (2pts)
QUESTION 34
- Why was chapter two of spillover called “Thirteen Gorillas”( spillover is a book by David Quammen)
QUESTION 35
- List two things that the Chinese government did to control and contain the spread of SARS?
QUESTION 36
- Which malaria species is considered a newly emerging infection in humans, which was previously considered a form of primate malaria only?
QUESTION 37
- Duffy antigen negative status is protective against P. vivax infection. What is the prevalence of this protective genetic factor in West Africa.
Less than 10% | ||
20-40% | ||
40-60% | ||
60-80% | ||
Greater than 90% |
QUESTION 38
- How do spillover events occur and what actions could we start taking to prevent them from happening.( write in detail)
QUESTION 39
- What are the pros and cons of censoring Bird flu research?
QUESTION 40
- What malaria species is considered the most common and the most deadly according to lecture.
QUESTION 41
- What annual event is a concern for MERS CoV transmission and why?
QUESTION 42
- What is the proper sneezing technique?
QUESTION 43
- Answer the following:
Did you think this exam was fair?
In what ways could it be improved? (besides requesting a study guide)
How many hours did you study?
Should the final exam be a similar format?