Bioterrorism

• intentional release of biologic agents?


  bioterrorism
• considered a public health emergency?

  bioterrorism
• bioterrorism is aka?

  biological attack
• category A agents?

  botulism

  anthrax

  plague

  viral hemorraghic fever

  smallpox

  filoviruses

  arenaviruses

  tularemia
• Pathogens rarely seen in the US?

  category a
• highest priority?

  category a
• A disease of herbivorous animals?

  athrax
• mode of transmission of anthrax?

  direct contact with infected animals

  occupational exposure
• types of anthrax?

  cutaneous

  inhalation

  gastrointestinal
• depress black necrotic central area usually 1-3 cm in diameter?

  eschars
• spore penetration through skin cuts, abrasion or insect bites?

  cutaneous anthrax
• inhalation anthrax is aka?

  respiratory anthrax

  pulmonary anthrax

  wool sorters disease
• most common form of anthrax?

  cutaneous
• most severe or deadly form of anthrax?

  inhalation
• type of anthrax acquired through ingestion of spores?

  gastrointestinal anthrax
• plague causitive agent?

  yersinia pestis
• botulism causitive agent?

  clostridium botulinum toxin
• plague is aka?

  black death
• most common type of plague?

  bubonic plague
• bubonic plague results to the appearance of?

  buboes
• swollen, painful lymnodes that can be found in the groin, armpit, or neck?

  buboes
• most contagious and fatal type of plague?

  pneumonic plague
• smallpox causative agent?

  variola major
• last case of smallpox was in?

  1977
• smallpox was declared eradicated in?

  1980
• disease of rodents?

  tularemia
• tularemia causative agent?

  francisella tularensis
• tularemia is aka?

  rabbit fever

  lemming fever

  deerfly fever

  water rat trappers fever
• these diseases are caused by filoviruses?

  ebola and marburg
• ebola was first identified in?

  democratic republic of congo 1976
• these diseases are caused by arenaviruses?

  lassa and machupo
• marburg was named after?

  marburg germany
• Acquired from African green monkeys imported in Germany?

  marburg
• Bolivian hemorrhagic virus or black typhus?

  machupo
• Require specific enhancements of the CDC’s diagnostic capacity and enhanced disease surveillance?

  category b
• Require special action for public health preparedness?

  category a
• Include emerging pathogens that could be engineered for mass dissemination in the future?

  category c
• Category C includes emerging pathogens that could be engineered for mass dissemination in the future because of?

  availability

  ease of production

  potential for high morbidity and mortality rate