BioTerrorisk - Case Presentation

PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATIONS QUIZ: LAB PROFESSIONAL

1. The route of exposure for a disease that manifests with diarrhea is most likely:

a) Inhalation (lung)
b) Ingestion (GI tract)
c) Absorption (dermal or mucous membrane)

2. Foodborne illness can be transmitted via:

a) Person to person contact (oral-fecal, oral-vomitus)
b) Human to food to human contact (Hepatitis A, common)
c) Animal or animal product ingestion (milk, eggs, meat)
d) Environmental contamination of food (mercury in fish)
e) All of the above

3. A comprehensive food safety program may include:

a) Building an "early warning" system
b) Improving new monitoring methods
c) Coordinating response to suspected outbreaks
d) Public health education
e) All of the above.

4. Conditions that should make you concerned about the implications for the health of the public are:

a) The number of similar cases
b) The severity or potential severity of disease
c) A possible link between cases
d) All of the above

5. If a number of people from the same town develop a severe GI illness, you should investigate:

a) Food sources
b) Water sources
c) Both

6. Professionals who generally design and/or execute public health outbreak investigations are:

a) Emergency physicians
b) Public health officers, including environmental specialists,
	epidemiologists
c) Police and fire officials
d) Clinic nurses

7. Professionals who may be the first to recognize that illness in individuals may be indicative of a widespread health problem include:

a) Emergency and primary care clinicians
b) Local public health officers
c) Hospital laboratory technologists
d) All of the above