HLT 4310 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Environmental factors associated with observed increases in infectious diseases -
Answers - 1. Movement of humans (war, migration, travel)
2. Ecological changes (deforestation, conversion of grasslands)
3. Climate change (warmer climates)
4. Decrease in surveillance
5. Antibiotic resistance
6. Increasing urbanization overwhelming sanitation
Methods for Transmission of Zoonoses - Answers - Contact with the skin
A bite or scratch from an animal
Direct inhalation or ingestion
The bite of an arthropod vector
Diseases transmitted by ticks - Answers - lyme disease
Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes - Answers - dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya,
zika, west nile, malaria
Diseases transmitted by rodent - Answers - hantavirus
Diseases transmitted by sand fly - Answers - leighmaniasis
Disease transmitted by fleas - Answers - plague
Disease transmitted by snails - Answers - schistosomiasis
Chemical benefits of pesticides - Answers - increase crop yields
Fewer rodents
Decrease major diseases
Alternatives to pesticides - Answers - Integrated pest management, natural pesticides,
pathogens, gm crops
Why is foodborne illness increasing - Answers - 1. Changes in agricultural and food
processing methods- use of nitrate fertilizers (human health and eutrophication),
chemicals and machinery
2. Increasing globalization- poor hygiene for ag workers around the world and importing
food containing bad pesticides from other countries
ANSWERS
Environmental factors associated with observed increases in infectious diseases -
Answers - 1. Movement of humans (war, migration, travel)
2. Ecological changes (deforestation, conversion of grasslands)
3. Climate change (warmer climates)
4. Decrease in surveillance
5. Antibiotic resistance
6. Increasing urbanization overwhelming sanitation
Methods for Transmission of Zoonoses - Answers - Contact with the skin
A bite or scratch from an animal
Direct inhalation or ingestion
The bite of an arthropod vector
Diseases transmitted by ticks - Answers - lyme disease
Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes - Answers - dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya,
zika, west nile, malaria
Diseases transmitted by rodent - Answers - hantavirus
Diseases transmitted by sand fly - Answers - leighmaniasis
Disease transmitted by fleas - Answers - plague
Disease transmitted by snails - Answers - schistosomiasis
Chemical benefits of pesticides - Answers - increase crop yields
Fewer rodents
Decrease major diseases
Alternatives to pesticides - Answers - Integrated pest management, natural pesticides,
pathogens, gm crops
Why is foodborne illness increasing - Answers - 1. Changes in agricultural and food
processing methods- use of nitrate fertilizers (human health and eutrophication),
chemicals and machinery
2. Increasing globalization- poor hygiene for ag workers around the world and importing
food containing bad pesticides from other countries