Review

We still have to cover influenza but some of you may find this useful for review:

Consider the following thirteen diseases, all of which we discussed, although some of them only briefly.

1. AIDS
2. Bubonic plague
3. Lyme disease
4. Cholera
5. Ebola hemorrhagic fever
6. Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome
7. Measles
8. Marburg hemorrhagic fever
9. Tuberculosis
10. Malaria
11. Polio
12. Influenza
13. Yellow fever

• Four of these disease have vectors. Which are they and what are the vectors?
• Three of these diseases have rodent reservoirs. Which are they?
• Which three of these diseases have exhibited a series of truly global pandemics?
• Which of these disease are essentially incurable? What do these incurable diseases have in common?
• Which of these diseases is caused by neither a bacteria nor a virus? What is it caused by?
• Which two of these disease are transmitted by the fecal-oral route?
• Which two of these diseases are a particular problem to immunocompromised people? Why?
• Which of these disease can be vertically transmitted?