REHS Kentucky Study Guide Questions with correct answers

What is the most plentiful form of available water? Answer Groundwater What are Waterborne Diseases? Answer Results from ingestion of water that is harboring a pathogen example: Typhoid fever. What are Water-washed Diseases? Answer Spread by fecal-oral route or person to person contact. Facilitated by lack of personal hygiene. What are Water-based Diseases? Answer Caused by infection arising through ingestion of pathogenic agent Example: guinea worm larvae, Termatode larvae. What are Water-related Diseases? Answer Facilitated by insects vector that breed in water: example filariastus abthropods that carry Dengue fever. What are Inhalation of contaminated water aerosols? Answer Legionella Pneumophila What is the ecologic agent of cyclosporiasis? Answer Cyclospora Cayetanensis What food is associated with cyclosporiasis? Answer Imported Raspberries, Lettuce form South America Most waterborne disease fatalities occurred before 1940 and were attributed to the waterborne illness? Answer Typhoid Feve