Emergent and Resurgent Disease | Quotes from the reading | Cholera | Ebola | AIDS and TB |
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Emerging Infectious Disease
What does EID Stand for?
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United States
"Disease that appear not to threaten the _____ ______ directly rarely elicit the political support necessary to maintain control efforts"
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South Asia
Cholera can be traced back to this region of the world
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West Africa
What region of Africa was Ebola first observed in?
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Multi-drug-resistant Tuberculosis
What does MDRTB stand for?
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Resurgent Infectious Disease
What is the term used for an old disease that show an increase in recent incidence?
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Infectious
In 1969 the US Surgeon General announced to congress that it was "time to close the book on ______ disease as a major health threat"
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Drinking Water or Water
how is Cholera transmitted?
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A fruit bat
What animal was the disease expected to be transmitted from?
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Extremely Multi-drug-resistant Tuberculosis
What does XMDRTB stand for?
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antibiotics or vaccines
Name one of the mid 20th century innovations that was thought to be the end of infectious disease
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Climate
______ Change is one factor that interacts with a variety of ongoing processes that influence disease spread
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False
True or False, rising water temperatures reduce the spread of Cholera
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True
True or false there was an Ebola vaccine created?
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homosexuals, hemophiliacs, Haitians, and Heroin Addicts
Name one of the groups of AIDS patients in the "4-Hs" who suffered stigmatization
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antibiotic
In recent history we have observed more and more cases of _________ resistant strains of infectious disease
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Cholera
______ is considered a resurgent disease, and its spread is very much tied to human activities
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Lowest
Haiti ranks the ______ of all countries in water security according to the Water Poverty Index
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health care
Ebola was a prime case to show the need for investment towards proper ______ _______ infrastructure
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Monkey
The current consensus is that HIV was exposed to humans through infected ________ blood while butchering hunted animals over the past century
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1 passenger
In the reading there was a case where 70% of an airplane had become infected with influenza, what number of passengers had the active infection before the flight?
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Poverty
What most TB patients have in common, regardless of their nationality, is ________
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European Descent
-gene related to cystic fibrosis
It is hypothesized that the decedents of this continent have a genetic adaptation to Cholera
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burial ceremony
What type cultural ceremony greatly continued the spread of the infection within Western Africa?
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$10,000
The quoted price for a years worth of the multi drug AIDS therapy costs ________ dollars in the United States
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