Exam 3 Quiz Questions

What does CDC stand for?

Center for Disease Control

the discovery of penicillin is credited to

Alexander Fleming

Name the organization whose slogan is "Helping People, before, during, and after Disaster"

FEMA

What Country has the highest life expectancy in the world? USA Finland France Monaco

Monaco

Which of the following is an antiviral agent? Tamiflu Penicillin Streptomycin All of the above

Tamiflu

The outbreak verification program is associated with which organization?

WHO

"Health for all by the year 2000" is a slogan popularized by

World Health Assembly

The Kampung improvement program focused on immunization programs sanitation and clean water AIDS eradication antibiotic availability

sanitation and clean water

The recycled human waste is known as

sludge

Malaria eradication seemed possible 50 years ago but was unsuccessful due to the lack of a vaccine the lack of drugs available to fight the disease the emergence of drug resistant parasites and mosquitoes the lack of money

the emergence of drug resistant parasites and mosquitoes

In the 1880s the germ theory of disease linking sanitation to microbial disease was made by Louis Pasteur and ________ Alexander Fleming Selman Waksman Edward Jenner Robert Koch

Robert Koch

In the 19th century, London was plagued by outbreaks of Black Death Cholera Smallpox Plague

cholera

______ is a mechanism by which genes are passed from one mature bacterial cell to another

horizontal gene transfer

Which organization maintains the "green sheet: as a travel advisory?

CDC

Which organization specializes in sending "SWAT" teams of epidemiologists into the field, in response to infectious disease outbreaks?

CDC

Which organization is charge with assisting communities in coping with natural disasters? FEMA PHS FDA CDC

FEMA

Rotary international is committed to the eradication of AIDS Polio Tuberculosis Malaria

Polio

The most resistant type of microbes to disinfection is

Prions

PHS stands for

Public Health Service

Surveillance and control of infectious disease are the responsibilities of individuals local health departments WHO all of the above

all of the above

The Carter Center has committed itself to eradicating guinea worm disease onchocerciasis filariasis all of the above

all of the above

The attainment of health involves partnerships at.. the community level the national level the international level all of the above

all of the above

Which of the following may carry bacterial antibiotic resistance genes? transposons plasmids chromosomes all of the above

all of the above

It has been stated that control of let diseases was due to all of the following EXCEPT urban improvements public health curative medicine superior nutrition

curative medicine

The second cause of child mortality after pneumonia is? diarrheal diseases HIV malaria tuberculosis

diarrheal diseases

Which of these viral diseases is NOT on the list for potential eradication by the ITFDE influenza mumps polio rubella

influenza

What is the mechanism of activity of penicillin? interference with metabolic activity interference with nucleic acid synthesis interference with cell wall synthesis interference with protein synthesis

interference with cell wall synthesis

The novel by Upton Sinclair in 1906 tried to portray which sanitary health issue?

meatpacking industry

The Carter Center is an example of what type of organization? community organization nongovernmental organization international organization national governmental organization

nongovernmental organization

the most common cause of single food product food born outbreak are associated with? poultry pork dairy fish

poultry

The role of the CDC is to act as the nation's

watchdog