VTPB 221 Great Diseases Tamu Questions And Answers
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VTPB 221 Great Diseases Tamu Questions And Answers
Epidemic ANS 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 ANS The constant presence of a disease in a certain geographical area
The male...
VTPB 221 Great Diseases Tamu Questions And
Answers
Epidemic ANS 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 ANS 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?
ANS 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: ANS Development of agriculture communities
led to the increase in population with the increased chance of war.
Food distribution in poor countries fail because of: ANS 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 ANS
Pneumonic plague
The causative agent of Yellow Fever was likely introduced in to the new world ANS 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? ANS Walter Reed
, The Tuskegee Experiment ANS To study the natural history of syphilis in Afro-Americans
Columbian Theory ANS Introduction of Treponema pallidum to Europe during the 15th century
by Columbus sailors
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is caused by ANS corona virus
Tamu sends students to Sudan. The team should sleep under mosquito nets to protect themselves
from the following arboviruses ANS Yellow fever
Filovirus ANS Ebola
Bunyavirus ANS Rift Valley Fever
Arenavirus ANS Lassa Fever
Flaviovirus ANS Dengue, Yellow Fever, West Nile
Protazoan ANS Malaria
Who was the first scientist who tried to disprove the invalidity of the spontaneous generation theory
ANS Redi
Fermentation. Germ from air ANS Pastuer
Contagion/germ Theory (casual agent for TB) ANS Koch
Suggested some germs were spread by contagion ANS Fracastoro
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