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✔✔what are the 4 diseases from mosquitos - ✔✔-malaria
-dengue fever
-yellow fever
-encephalitis
✔✔malaria
-what is it
-sign/symptom
-treatment - ✔✔what is it
-bite of malaria-infected female mosquito
-chloroquine is standard antimalaria medication
sign/symptom
-time between inoculation and appearance of symptoms is 7-30 days
-fever with alternating chills
-headache
-muscle aches
-sweats
-abd pain with diarrhea
treatment
-chemoprophylaxis
-avoid mosquito bites
✔✔dengue fever
-what is it
-treatment - ✔✔what is it
-aedes mosquito
-viral disease
treatment
-supportive treatment
-chemoprophylaxis
-avoid mosquito bites
✔✔yellow fever
-what is it
-prevention
-treatment - ✔✔what is it
-aedes mosquito
-viral disease
,prevention
-immunized with yellow fever vaccine before deployment to endemic areas
-boosters every 10 years
treatment
-supportive treatment
-chemoprophylaxis
-avoid mosquito bites
✔✔encephalitis
-what is it
-sign/symptom
-treatment - ✔✔what is it
-aedes and culex mosquitos
-several forms of viral disease
-West Nile Virus (WNV)
-St Louis encephalitis
-Japanese B encephalitis
-California encephalitis
sign/symptom
-acute inflammatory diseases involving CNS
treatment
-supportive treatment
-chemoprophylaxis
-avoid mosquito bites
✔✔what are the 2 diseases are sandflies known to spread - ✔✔-sandfly fever
-leishmaniasis
✔✔flies and cockroaches
-diseases
-habitat
-prevention - ✔✔passive transmission
diseases
--sandfly fever
-leishmaniasis
habitat
-in/near animal or human waste, garbage, manure, decaying animal bodies
prevention
-Remove their food sources. Construct and maintain field latrines and soakage pits
properly. Use sprays, fogs and traps
, ✔✔Leishmaniasis
-what is it
-prevention - ✔✔what is it
-transmitted from sandfly
-found in 3rd world counties
prevention
-Proper wearing of the uniform.
-application of repellents.
-Permethrin and DEET
-Avoiding domesticated animals
✔✔sandfly fever
-what is it
-prevention - ✔✔what is it
-transmitted from sandfly
-Tropical and subtropical areas of Europe, Africa, South America and Asia.
-Seen in non-native persons entering endemic area
prevention
-Proper wearing of the uniform.
-application of repellents.
-Permethrin and DEET
-Avoiding domesticated animals
✔✔fleas
-diseases
-habitat
-prevention - ✔✔active transmission
diseases
-Plague, Typhus, Tularemia.
habitat
-found in the same places as rodents and become infected from biting them
prevention
-removing rodents while at the same time using sprays, powders and traps
✔✔ticks
-diseases
-habitat
-prevention - ✔✔active transmission