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VTPB 221 GREAT DISEASES TAMU QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT SOLUTIONS.
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VTPB 221 GREAT DISEASES TAMUQUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
SOLUTIONS!!
Epidemic - Answer The occurrence of more cases of disease than expected in a given
area or among a specific group of people over a particular period of time.
Endemic - Answer The constant presence of a disease in a certain geographical area
The male mosquito of which of the following species are involved in transmission of
yellow fever? - Answer The correct answer is not given ( male mosquitos do not feed on
blood, hence they do not spread the disease)
The practice of agriculture by hominids led to the evolvement of diseases among
mankind. All of the following contributing factors are true EXCEPT: - Answer
Development of agriculture communities led to the increase in population with the
increased chance of war.
Food distribution in poor countries fail because of: - Answer All of the below:
Poor roads
corruption
government bureaucracy
lack of food refrigeration
Which form of the plagues which can be transmitted from one human to another directly
- Answer Pneumonic plague
The causative agent of Yellow Fever was likely introduced in to the new world - Answer
with the African slave trade
According to the movie The Great Fever the Army Physician who led the team in the
research of the Yellow Fever in Cuba? - Answer Walter Reed
The Tuskegee Experiment - Answer To study the natural history of syphilis in Afro-
Americans
Columbian Theory - Answer Introduction of Treponema pallidum to Europe during the
15th century by Columbus sailors
, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is caused by - Answer corona virus
Tamu sends students to Sudan. The team should sleep under mosquito nets to protect
themselves from the following arboviruses - Answer Yellow fever
Filovirus - Answer Ebola
Bunyavirus - Answer Rift Valley Fever
Arenavirus - Answer Lassa Fever
Flaviovirus - Answer Dengue, Yellow Fever, West Nile
Protazoan - Answer Malaria
Who was the first scientist who tried to disprove the invalidity of the spontaneous
generation theory - Answer Redi
Fermentation. Germ from air - Answer Pastuer
Contagion/germ Theory (casual agent for TB) - Answer Koch
Suggested some germs were spread by contagion - Answer Fracastoro
True characteristics of viruses - Answer Not affected by antibodies
they are obligate cell parasites
their genome is composed of either DNA OR RNA
they can be crystallized
False about viruses - Answer Their genome is composed of DNA and RNA
Zoonosis - Answer a disease that can be naturally transmitted from animals to humans
The microbe that caused the late potato blight that triggered the Irish Potato Famine -
Answer fungus
The serotype of the casual agent of the Influenza epidemic of 1918 in the USA was -
Answer an H1N1 serotype
Antibodies(bacteria) are considered part of the - Answer Humoral Immunity system
Virus - Answer Cell Mediated Immunity
Innate or natural immunity - Answer mucous, skin,
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