FIELDCRAFT 3 CORE EXAM TEST 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Anthropods - ✔✔animals including ticks, spiders, mites and other insects as welll as
crustaceans such as shrimp lobsters and crabs
✔✔Vector - ✔✔Carrier, a term used to describe an anthropod that transports a disease
causing organism or pathogen from one host to another
✔✔Venom - ✔✔Toxin produced by some animals
✔✔Envenomation - ✔✔injection of a poisonous material by sting, spine, bite, or other
means
✔✔Passive transmission is also called - ✔✔mechanical transmission
✔✔Passive transmission - ✔✔Anthropod carries the pathogen from one host to another,
pathogen does nothing during the transfer except go along for the ride
✔✔Filth Flies transmit disease through ___________ transmission - ✔✔Passive
✔✔Filth Flies can cause - ✔✔dysentery and diarrheal disease
✔✔Cockroaches can cause - ✔✔diarrheal disease such as cholera
✔✔Active transmission is also known as - ✔✔Biological Transmission
✔✔Active Transmission - ✔✔Transmission into the host that requires the parasite to
actively work to gain entry into the host
✔✔Inoculation - ✔✔Vector injects the pathogen into the host with it's saliva while it
feeds on the host ( Mosquitos)
✔✔Regurgitation - ✔✔Vector vomits the pathogen into the host while it feeds on the
host( Fleas)
✔✔Fecal Contamination - ✔✔Vector defecates into a wound on the host. As the would
itches, scratching and rubbing by the host causes the pathogen to enter the host's body
: Example Chagas' disease
✔✔Crushing the vector - ✔✔THe vector is smashed onto the skin of the host. When the
host wipes off the dead bug, the pathogen is rubbed into the skin
,✔✔What are reasons that mosquitoes are the most important anthropod to the miltary -
✔✔- Mosquitoes are everywhere
- Capable of transmitting a large number diseases
-
✔✔Habitat for a mosquito - ✔✔Anything that can hold water provides a habitat for
mosquito larvae
✔✔Most effective mean of controlling malaria - ✔✔avoiding mosquito bites
✔✔Methods of preventing mosquito bites - ✔✔Insect Bed Nets, long sleeved clothing,
chemical repellents with DEET, Education
✔✔How often should DEET be reapplied on the skin - ✔✔every 4-6 hours
✔✔What type of setting does malaria thrive - ✔✔tropical
✔✔How does a human get malaria - ✔✔From getting bitten by a malaria infected
female moquito
✔✔Chloroquine - ✔✔Standard antimalarial medication. But many strains of malaria are
chloroquine resistant
✔✔What is the incubation period of malaria - ✔✔7-30 days
✔✔Signs and symptoms of malaria - ✔✔-Fever alternating with chills
-Headache
-Muscle Aches
-Sweats
-Abdonminal pain with diarrhea
✔✔Treatment of malaria - ✔✔Chemprophylaxis- Prophylactic medication for malaria
Avoid getting bitten by mosquitoes
✔✔What type of mosquitoes transmit Dengue Fever - ✔✔Aedes Mosquito
✔✔Dengue fever has a extended________ phase - ✔✔Convalescent
✔✔Treatment for Dengue Fiver - ✔✔Treatment is supportive, no real specific treatment
✔✔What type of vectors carry Encephalitis - ✔✔Andes and Culex Mosquitoes
✔✔West Nile Virus is a strain of ___________________ - ✔✔Encephalitis
, ✔✔What body system does Encephalitis involve - ✔✔Central nervous system
✔✔West Nile Virus Symptoms - ✔✔Most people infected are symptomatic
20 percent develop mild symptoms including fever, headache and body aches
1 in 150 people develop more severe form of this disease with symptoms including high
fever, neck stiffness, coma, seizures, paralysis and death
✔✔What population is most at risk for death if infected with the west nile virus -
✔✔Elderly Population
✔✔Treatment of West Nile Virus - ✔✔supportive only
Prevention, personal protective measures
✔✔Where do filth flies and cockroaches live - ✔✔near animal or human waste,
garbage, decomposing plants/animals, mud in high organic content
✔✔What does a large population of flies and cockroaches indicate - ✔✔unsanitary
conditions
✔✔What are prevention and personal protective measures from diseases transmitted
by filth flies and cockroaches - ✔✔Locating and removing food sources
Field latrines should be constructed, maintained
Use sprays, sticky traps in conjunction with other pest elimination measures
✔✔What are sandflies - ✔✔blood sucking gnats that look like small mosquitoes
✔✔Where do sand flies like to attack - ✔✔Wrist, ankles, any exposed part of the body
✔✔Sandfly Fever - ✔✔Acute, self limiting viral disease transmitted through the bite of a
sandfly.
✔✔Where does sandfly fever thrive - ✔✔Tropical and subtropical areas of europe,
africa, south america and asia
✔✔Prevention and Personal protective measures of Sandfly fever - ✔✔insect repellent
with DEET
Avoid dogs and other domesticated animals
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Anthropods - ✔✔animals including ticks, spiders, mites and other insects as welll as
crustaceans such as shrimp lobsters and crabs
✔✔Vector - ✔✔Carrier, a term used to describe an anthropod that transports a disease
causing organism or pathogen from one host to another
✔✔Venom - ✔✔Toxin produced by some animals
✔✔Envenomation - ✔✔injection of a poisonous material by sting, spine, bite, or other
means
✔✔Passive transmission is also called - ✔✔mechanical transmission
✔✔Passive transmission - ✔✔Anthropod carries the pathogen from one host to another,
pathogen does nothing during the transfer except go along for the ride
✔✔Filth Flies transmit disease through ___________ transmission - ✔✔Passive
✔✔Filth Flies can cause - ✔✔dysentery and diarrheal disease
✔✔Cockroaches can cause - ✔✔diarrheal disease such as cholera
✔✔Active transmission is also known as - ✔✔Biological Transmission
✔✔Active Transmission - ✔✔Transmission into the host that requires the parasite to
actively work to gain entry into the host
✔✔Inoculation - ✔✔Vector injects the pathogen into the host with it's saliva while it
feeds on the host ( Mosquitos)
✔✔Regurgitation - ✔✔Vector vomits the pathogen into the host while it feeds on the
host( Fleas)
✔✔Fecal Contamination - ✔✔Vector defecates into a wound on the host. As the would
itches, scratching and rubbing by the host causes the pathogen to enter the host's body
: Example Chagas' disease
✔✔Crushing the vector - ✔✔THe vector is smashed onto the skin of the host. When the
host wipes off the dead bug, the pathogen is rubbed into the skin
,✔✔What are reasons that mosquitoes are the most important anthropod to the miltary -
✔✔- Mosquitoes are everywhere
- Capable of transmitting a large number diseases
-
✔✔Habitat for a mosquito - ✔✔Anything that can hold water provides a habitat for
mosquito larvae
✔✔Most effective mean of controlling malaria - ✔✔avoiding mosquito bites
✔✔Methods of preventing mosquito bites - ✔✔Insect Bed Nets, long sleeved clothing,
chemical repellents with DEET, Education
✔✔How often should DEET be reapplied on the skin - ✔✔every 4-6 hours
✔✔What type of setting does malaria thrive - ✔✔tropical
✔✔How does a human get malaria - ✔✔From getting bitten by a malaria infected
female moquito
✔✔Chloroquine - ✔✔Standard antimalarial medication. But many strains of malaria are
chloroquine resistant
✔✔What is the incubation period of malaria - ✔✔7-30 days
✔✔Signs and symptoms of malaria - ✔✔-Fever alternating with chills
-Headache
-Muscle Aches
-Sweats
-Abdonminal pain with diarrhea
✔✔Treatment of malaria - ✔✔Chemprophylaxis- Prophylactic medication for malaria
Avoid getting bitten by mosquitoes
✔✔What type of mosquitoes transmit Dengue Fever - ✔✔Aedes Mosquito
✔✔Dengue fever has a extended________ phase - ✔✔Convalescent
✔✔Treatment for Dengue Fiver - ✔✔Treatment is supportive, no real specific treatment
✔✔What type of vectors carry Encephalitis - ✔✔Andes and Culex Mosquitoes
✔✔West Nile Virus is a strain of ___________________ - ✔✔Encephalitis
, ✔✔What body system does Encephalitis involve - ✔✔Central nervous system
✔✔West Nile Virus Symptoms - ✔✔Most people infected are symptomatic
20 percent develop mild symptoms including fever, headache and body aches
1 in 150 people develop more severe form of this disease with symptoms including high
fever, neck stiffness, coma, seizures, paralysis and death
✔✔What population is most at risk for death if infected with the west nile virus -
✔✔Elderly Population
✔✔Treatment of West Nile Virus - ✔✔supportive only
Prevention, personal protective measures
✔✔Where do filth flies and cockroaches live - ✔✔near animal or human waste,
garbage, decomposing plants/animals, mud in high organic content
✔✔What does a large population of flies and cockroaches indicate - ✔✔unsanitary
conditions
✔✔What are prevention and personal protective measures from diseases transmitted
by filth flies and cockroaches - ✔✔Locating and removing food sources
Field latrines should be constructed, maintained
Use sprays, sticky traps in conjunction with other pest elimination measures
✔✔What are sandflies - ✔✔blood sucking gnats that look like small mosquitoes
✔✔Where do sand flies like to attack - ✔✔Wrist, ankles, any exposed part of the body
✔✔Sandfly Fever - ✔✔Acute, self limiting viral disease transmitted through the bite of a
sandfly.
✔✔Where does sandfly fever thrive - ✔✔Tropical and subtropical areas of europe,
africa, south america and asia
✔✔Prevention and Personal protective measures of Sandfly fever - ✔✔insect repellent
with DEET
Avoid dogs and other domesticated animals
