Across
- 4. Major causative agent of Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome
- 5. Also known as "Viral Hemorrhagic Fever"
- 6. Means "weakening of the joints" in Nilotic language
- 8. Risk factors for it include being younger than 12, female, or Caucasian.
- 10. Historically known as yellow jack
- 12. Zoonotic aerboro virus of West Africa, first case outside Africa was in an immunocompromised patient in Italy in 2009
- 13. Causes an extremely severe disease in humans and in nonhuman primates in the form of viral hemorrhagic fever
- 14. First isolated in Saudi Arabia in the 1990's
- 15. Infected over 200,000 people in Egypt in 1977-78
- 16. Forest Currently found only in Africa
- 17. Original name was "four corners virus"
- 19. Papua New Guinea and other islands in the South Pacific
- 20. Also known as bird flu
- 22. In the Makonde language it means "that which bends up"
- 26. The most widely distributed vector-borne disease in North America
- 28. Severe acute respiratory syndrome
Down
- 1. First reported in India in 1957 where it was locally known as monkey fever
- 2. Associated with an encephalitic illness in humans
- 3. The natural host of the virus are fruit bats of the Pteropodidae Family
- 7. Similar to dengue fever
- 9. Mosquito-bourne viral pathogen that can effect the nervous system of equine species
- 11. Mosquito-bourne zoonotic pathogen endemic to South and Central Africa
- 18. Causes inflammation of the brain
- 21. Non-contagious, insect-borne, viral disease of ruminants,
- 23. Discovered during an outbreak of respiratory and neurologic disease in horses and humans in Hendra
- 24. Zoonotic illness of the Arenaviridae family
- 25. Tick-borne encephalitis
- 27. Discovered in 1969 when two missionary nurses died in Nigeria