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Pathology (Lecture 4)
Pathology notes through lecture 4
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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 2
08/21/2009

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Define epidemic.
Definition
Increase over the normal expected number of disease cases in a geographic area during a certain time period.
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Define endemic.
Definition
Maintenance of a certain level of disease within a geographic area over a certain time period.
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Define pandemic.
Definition
disease outbreak over an entire continent, country, or world
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What in the world are residues?
Definition
hormones, antibiotics, and pesticides that have accumulated to levels that are above the established safe tolerable levels.
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EPA! EPA! what does it stand for? What do they do?
Definition
Environmental Protection Agency they set residue limits for pesticides.
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What is FDA stand for and what do they do?
Definition
Federal drug administraion, set residue limits on drugs.
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What does USDA stand for and what do they do?
Definition
United States Department of Agriculture; monitor food for presence of residues.
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Reservoirs can be *blank* (soil) or *blank* (animals, people.
Definition
inanimate, animate.
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Are hosts necessary for an organism's survival?
Definition
No
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Name a few zoonotic disease transmitted by direct transmission.
Definition
Rabies, anthrax, leptospirosis, Brucellosis, Pasteurella, visceral lara migrans, cutaneous larva migrans, and psittacosis.
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What is a vector?
Definition
A living organism that transports the infectious agent.
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Examples of indirect transmission diseases.
Definition
Q fever, Plague, Lyme disease, Rocky mountain spotted fever, Giardia.
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What are five VIRAL zoonotic diseases?
Definition
Rabies, WEE;EEE;VEE, New Castle Disease, Hantavirus, Orf, Simian Herpes(b virus), Yellow Fever
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