REHS KENTUCKY STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT SOLUTIONS 2024

REHS KENTUCKY STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT SOLUTIONS 2024 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 Fever Waters suitable for drinking water supplies and shellfish rearing are monitored routinely for? - Answer - Microbiological Quality Only what % of the global content of water constitutes fresh water? - Answer -2.6 or 3 Percent What is a waterborne disease that can be prevented through vaccinations is ? - Answer -Typhoid Fever or Cholera The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that ______% of all diseases are attributable to inadequate water or sanitation - Answer -80 Percent Viral infections readily spread through drinking water, food and water-contact recreation activities due to what? - Answer -The low infectious dose for pathogenic viruses and protoza. Shigellosis: - Answer -A bacteriaWhat is the specific agent for shingellosis? - Answer -Genus shingella Example: flexneri, sonnei, boydlii, and dysenteriae What is the Reservoir for shingellosis? - Answer -Feces of carriers and infected persons What are the symptoms of shingellosis? - Answer -Acute onset with diarrhea, fever, tenesmus, frequent stools containing blood and mucus. What is the incubation for shingellosis? - Answer -1-7 days, usually less than 4 day