Deck 13: Viral and Prion Diseases

Question 1

Encephalitis-causing arboviruses in human target the:

A) heart
B) brain
C) meninges
D) eyes

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Most encephalitis-causing arboviruses in the USA are transmitted by mosquitoes, except:

A) West Nile
B) eastern equine encephalitis
C) St. Louis encephilitis
D) Colorado fever

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Most severe cases of La Crosse encephalitis occurs in which age group?

A) people over 60
B) children under 16
C) children under 5
D) people over 21

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Common colds are caused by

A) arboviruses.
B) rhinoviruses.
C) coronaviruses.
D) both b and c.

Question 5

Measles is characterized by

A) blindness.
B) Koplik's spots.
C) formation of vesicles.
D) orchitis.

Question 6

Orchitis is characterized by

A) inflammation of the cervix.
B) inflammation of the joints.
C) inflammation of the penis.
D) inflammation of the testes.

Question 7

Vesicles are characteristic of

A) meningitis.
B) chicken pox.
C) mumps.
D) rabies.

Question 8

Collections of nerve cells are called

A) vesicles.
B) meninges.
C) ganglia.
D) clusters.

Question 9

Hepatitis primarily involves the

A) pancreas.
B) liver.
C) spleen.
D) stomach.

Question 10

If pregnant women are infected with ____________ they are at risk for a miscarriage.

A) rabies
B) genital warts
C) genital herpes
D) gastroenteritis

Question 11

Infectious mononucleosis usually affects persons

A) under 15 years old.
B) 15 to 30 years old.
C) 31 to 50 years old.
D) over 50 years old.

Question 12

What is hepatoma?

A) liver cancer
B) spleen cancer
C) lung cancer
D) none of the above

Question 13

Which type of hepatitis virus is described as "defective"?

A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D

Question 14

Symptoms of Ebola virus include

A) external bleeding.
B) internal bleeding.
C) fever.
D) all of the above.

Question 15

Which does NOT belong in the following group?

A) measles
B) influenza
C) Ebola hemorrhagic fever
D) hantavirus

Question 16

Herpes simplex virus type 1 causes __________, and herpes simplex virus type 2 causes __________.

A) cold sores, genital herpes
B) fever blisters, cold sores
C) fever blisters, shingles
D) chicken pox, genital herpes

Question 17

Herpes can be acquired congenitally via

A) contaminated hands.
B) hospital personnel.
C) placental transfer.
D) an infected birth canal.

Question 18

Shingles is caused by

A) varicella-zoster virus.
B) two different strains of varicella-zoster virus.
C) herpes simplex and herpes zoster.
D) contaminated foods.

Question 19

Rubella is also known as

A) shingles.
B) measles.
C) mumps.
D) German measles.

Question 20

Jaundice may result from infection with which virus?

A) hepatitis viruses
B) yellow fever virus
C) eastern equine encephalitis virus
D) more than one of the above

Question 21

Herpes simplex virus type 2 is usually associated with

A) cold sores.
B) fever blisters.
C) genital herpes.
D) shingles.

Question 22

Which statement best characterizes infection caused by respiratory syncytial virus?

A) frequently results in paralysis
B) may be passed across the placenta
C) carried by arthropods
D) particularly serious in infants under six months of age

Question 23

Beware of an unoccupied building with rodent droppings; it could serve as a source of ___________.

Question 24

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can transmit the viral diseases __________ and __________.

Question 25

Transmission of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD) by surgical procedures or contaminated surgical equipment is known as:

Question 26

Name the president of the United States who had polio.

Question 27

Mosquito control, which was necessary for the building of the Panama Canal, is credited to (name) _________________________.

Question 28

Symptoms of painful and itchy sores on the penis or on the labia, vagina, or cervix are characteristic of what disease?

Question 29

Medical condition where infant's head circumference is smaller than normal.

Question 30

Which type of hepatitis is a major cause of liver transplantation?

Question 31

An outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever occurred in ______________ in 1995.

Question 32

Infection of the parotid gland is diagnostic for___________ virus.

Question 33

Breakbone fever is also called _________________________.

Question 34

Bulbar poliomyelitis is characterized by severe symptoms including ______________________.

Question 35

Hydrophobia is also known as ______________________.

Question 36

Two type of rabies are _________________ and _______________.

Question 37

Biosafety level __________ facilities are reserved for the most dangerous microbes, lacking effective treatment or immunization.

Question 38

The only infectious disease eradicated is __________; however, the WHO expects that the next virus to be eradicated will be ___________.

Question 39

The first polio virus was the ______ vaccine and the second was the ______.

Question 40

The syndrome discovered in the Four Corners area of the United States is ___________________.

Question 41

The syndrome that first appeared as a pandemic in 2002-2003 is known as ________________________.

Question 42

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) develops in individuals 65 years of age. A second form, variant CJD (vCJD), affects what age population?

Question 43

The completion of the Panama Canal was an engineering triumph; it is also considered a biological triumph. Discuss this.

Question 44

What is the likely explanation for the introduction and propagation of vCJD in the beef industry in the USA?

Question 45

List four categories by which viral diseases are transmitted, and cite two examples of each.

Question 46

Why isn't there a vaccine for the common cold?