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| What area is malaria linked with? |
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| How can malaria be prevented? |
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| Repellent, netting, antimalarial drugs |
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| What does the word malaria translate to? |
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| What is normally the morphology of the protozoan in malaria? |
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| Small rounded rings in varying sizes |
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| Who was the scientist that first discovered that malaria was caused by a protozoan parasite? |
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| What vector leads to the transmission of malaria? |
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| What are some symptoms of E. Coli? |
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| Stomach cramping, fever, watery or bloody diarrhea, bowl wall inflammation, and difficulty urinating |
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| What is the morphology of E. Coli? |
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| What gives hepatitis C the ability to mutate? |
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| Puts info in RNA instead of DNA |
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| What is the structure of hepatitis C? |
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| RNA, surrounded by protective protein shell, encased in a lipid envelope |
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| True or False. Hepatitis C causes inflammation of the large intestine? |
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| What is not a way to prevent contracting hepatitis C? |
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| True or False. Hepatitis C can only be transmitted through injection of drugs? |
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| What family des hepatitis C belong to? |
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| What types of cells does HPV target? |
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| True or False. Males can get HPV |
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| Who discovered the cancerous strain of HPV and what is it called? |
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| What two proteins are the virulence factors of HPV |
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| True or False. The cytokine storm is what kills victims of ebola. |
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| What cell does ebola overtake to clone itself? |
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| Where is ebola derived from? |
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| What year was the most know outbreak of ebola? |
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| True or False. In aggressive hepatitis B the liver becomes chronically inflamed and fibrotic but the size of the liver itself is not affected. |
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| What is not a means of transmission of hepatitis B? |
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| What disease got its nickname hydrophobia meaning fear of water (this is what the patient has, a fear of water)? |
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| Which of these is a neurotropic virus? |
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| Where in the body does HIV grow? |
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| Lymph nodes and blood stream |
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| True or False. There is a cure for HIV. |
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| How much of the HIV population was infected with tuberculosis in 2014? |
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| How is the mantoux tuberculin skin test (TST) performed? |
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| injecting a small amount of fluid in the forearm |
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| What is lyme disease caused by? |
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| True or False. All ticks cause lyme disease. |
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| Whats a CDC work sheet used? (small pox) |
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| Medical professionals fill it out to diagnose someones symptoms if they have small pox |
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| Why have medical professionals not done extensive research on the variola virus over time? (Small pox) |
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| due to hazards of the possible contractions of the fatal disease |
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| The test(s) which can be used to differentiate anthrax bacilli from anthracoid bacilli is/are |
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| All of the above (head-colony, capsule, gamma phage) |
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| Medusa head appearance of the colonies may be due to what? (Anthrax) |
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| True or False. Meningitis can only be diagnosed by a doctor removing cerebral spinal fluid from the spine. |
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| True or False. Cases of meningitis have only been reported in the United States. |
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| What color does cerebral spinal fluid turn when infected with meningitis? |
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| What system does meningitis infect? |
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| What are the three different strains of plague? |
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| Bubonic, septicemic, pneumonic |
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| What is the name of the swollen and tender lymph nodes that the bubonic plague cause? |
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