ESCAPE THE BASE GAME

Module 3 (NTDs, Vector and Zoonotic Infections, & EIDs

ESCAPE The Base GAME

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THE MISSION

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Zoonotic diseases can be caused by several different types of pathogenic microbes

True

False

QUESTION 1/6

Helminth infections are often fatal

True

False

QUESTION 2/6

Malaria in the United States is primarily spread by travelers who have been infected abroad, and the disease can be transmitted by local mosquitoes after an infected traveler is bitten

True

False

QUESTION 3/6

Category B pathogens are biological agents that pose the highest risk to nation security and public health

True

False

QUESTION 4/6

Access to clean water is a common issue in neglected tropical diseases, vector-borne diseases, and zoonotic diseases?

True

False

QUESTION 5/6

Zika virus is only a concern for pregnant women

True

False

QUESTION 6/6

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Microbes infect vector prior to transmission

Microbes do not multiply within vector

Flies and feces are example of biological transmission

Which of the following is true about biological transmission?

QUESTION 1/6

A treatment for pathogenic infection

An organism that carries and transmits an infectious agent into another organism

An object that carries and transmits an infectious agent into another organism

What is a vector?

QUESTION 2/6

increase in host susceptibility

decrease in pathogen virulence

geographical expansion of virus

What is NOT a part of the definition of emergence as it relates to infectious disease?

QUESTION 3/6

A disease transmissible under natural conditions from animals to humans

A diseases only non-human animals possess

A disease only spread in zoos

What is a Zoonotic infection?

QUESTION 4/6

Transmission period

Infectious period

Disease period

The time during which someone who is infected with a pathogen can transmit the pathogen to other people is called:

QUESTION 5/6

A sudden increase in cases spreading countries, continents, or the world

A constant presence in a certain population or region

A sudden increase in cases across a large population

What is a pandemic?

QUESTION 6/6

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transmission - exposure - infection - epidemic spread

exposure - infection - transmission - epidemic spread

exposure - transmission - infection - epidemic sprea

Which of the following is the correct order of the levels of the pathogen pyramid?

QUESTION 1/6

Incidence

Prevalence

Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYS)

What is the best measure of the overall societal impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases?

QUESTION 2/6

Environmental health with a disease focus

The intersection of people, animals, insects, and the environment

Animal health and people health

Which is the best definition of the One Health model?

QUESTION 3/6

They have a high mortality rate

These diseases impact the poorest populations

The diseases don't require large-scale, structural solutions

Why are NTDs considered "neglected"?

QUESTION 4/6

Covid-19

Influenza

Measels

Which illness has the highest reproductive rate?

QUESTION 5/6

Lyme Disease

Mad Cow Disease

Malaria

Which of the following is NOT a vector-borne disease?

QUESTION 6/6

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Zika virus

Nipah virus

Rabies

Chagas disease

Which of the following are spread by "kissing bugs"?

QUESTION 1/3

R>1

R=1

R<1

R2-D2

A pathogen with which reproductive rate is most likely to lead to a pandemic?

QUESTION 2/3

Cat influenza

Toxoplasmosis

Chagas disease

TB

Cats are a natural host of which of these diseases?

QUESTION 3/3

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Measles

Zika virus

Ebola

HIV

Which of the following is NOT a novel virus?

QUESTION 1/3

NTDs cause poverty

Poverty and NTDs have a cyclical relationship in which they lead to each other

Poverty causes NTDs

None of the above are accurate

Which of the following statements is most accurate?

QUESTION 2/3

They have a high mortality rate

They are rare

They can cause nutritional issues

They are mostly found in older people

Which is a common issue among helminthic diseases?

QUESTION 3/3

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