Zoonotic Infectious Diseases: Knowledge Check

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  1. 5. A virus takes many mutations to allow a disease to make the ____ from animal to human and then from human to human
  2. 9. First drug approved by the FDA to treat COVID-19
  3. 12. A parasitic nematode that lives in the muscle of cod, haddock and other fish
  4. 14. An organism that seeks out and lives off a host
  5. 16. Mammals that were infected with the SARS-CoV virus by Chinese horseshoe bats
  6. 17. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that ___ out of every ten infectious diseases in people are zoonotic in origin
  7. 18. Originally a viral disease of dogs, similar to a distemper virus
  8. 19. The _____ Seafood Wholesale Market is believed to be the source of COVID-19.
  9. 21. The vector that carries and transmits the bacterium Yersinia pestis
  10. 22. Viral disease transmitted to humans from certain species of fruit bats in Africa
  11. 23. The vector that carries and transmits the West Nile virus.
  12. 24. This ongoing pandemic, according to the WHO, “is probably the major example of a zoonosis that emerged in the 20th century”
  13. 25. The disease caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, transmitted by ticks
  14. 26. A strain of this virus was responsible for the Spanish Flu epidemic
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  1. 1. A family of viruses that can cause respiratory illnesses such as the common cold, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
  2. 2. A popular raw food that puts people at risk for acquiring a parasitic worm.
  3. 3. A viral disease on the CDC list that has been identified as one of the most concern in the U.S., caused by _____ lyssavirus
  4. 4. What diseases transmitted by an animal to a human are called
  5. 6. Also known as the Black Death, this pandemic caused up to 200 million deaths between the years 1346 and 1353
  6. 7. The SARS virus became capable of being transmitted from human to human via ____ secretions
  7. 8. A vector carries and _____ a disease but does not itself have the disease
  8. 10. Virus that entered into the human population from a subspecies of African chimpanzees
  9. 11. Name for the “animal” transmitting the bacterium or virus to a human
  10. 13. Disease that was originally a cowpox virus that jumped to humans and then mutated to a form that was distinct from cowpox
  11. 15. Type of meat consumed in Africa that can cause transmission of this virus
  12. 18. Attribute of a virus that allow them to cross from one species to another
  13. 20. Slaughtered animals releasing blood and other liquids onto the market floors led to these markets being called ___ markets