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REHS Diseases

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bacteria feces & urine of infected carrier poultry/eggs/turtles/rodents incubation: 6-48 hours. avg. 12-24 hours abdominal pain diarrhea chills & fever nausea & vomiting   Salmonellosis  
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bacteria feces & urine of infected carrier water/flies/shellfish Avg. incubation 14 days infection fever & diarrhea rose spots on trunk   Typhoid Fever  
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bacteria - bacillary dysentery feces & urine of infected carrier water/ICE/flies/milk/person to person incubation: 1-7 days. avg. 4 days fever cramps diarrhea blood/mucus stools   Shigellosis  
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"cafeteria bacteria" c. welchii Mexican style refried beans "intoxication" (not infection) incubation: 6-12 hours. avg. 8-12 hours "24 hr bug" abdominal pain & diarrhea (NO vomiting & NO fever)   Clostridium perfringens  
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bacteria - intoxication - extoxin "picnic food poisoning" oral/nasal/dermal areas of people abrupt severe nausea/vomiting abdominal cramps diarrhea (NO fever)   Staphylcoccus Aureus  
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bacteria - Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome-HUS cattle incubation 12-60 hours. avg. 48 hours fever severe abdominal cramps watery often bloody diarrhea COOK MEATS 155 F 15 secconds   E. Coli 0157:H7  
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scarlet fever - airborne - sore throat incubation: 1-3 days.   Streptococcus pyrogenes  
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seafoods incubation: 12-24 hours watery diarrhea cramps nausea & vomiting fever & headaches   Vibrio parahemolyticus  
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bacteria - most prevalent food infection incubation: 12-24 hours. watery bloody, sticky diarrhea headaches/malaise high fever   Camphylobacter jejuni  
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bacteria - oysters - liver disease   Vibrio vulnificus  
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naturally caused chemical food poisoning red tide - demoic acid - dinoflagellate: Gonyaulax cantenella - endotoxin copper sulfate prevents algal blooms muscle incoordination/ascending paralysis: 2-12 hours after consumption   PSP - Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning  
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histamine-like chemical food poisoning scrombroids (tuna, mahi mahi, dolfin fish, dorado, bonito, mackerel) IQF: Individually Quick Frozen incubation: immediate to 30 minutes flushing of face & extremities, tingling headache diarrhea, metallic taste   Scrombroid food poisoning  
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airborne bacilli overcrowding incubation: 4-6 weeks   Mycobacterium tuberculosis  
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spirochete Borrelia recurrentis louse-borne incubation: 8 days   relapsing fever  
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spirochete moist air - air conditioning (Milder & nonfatal=Pontiac Fever)   Legionellosis  
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Weil's Disease - spirochete infected rat urine incubation: 4-19 days. avg. 10 days headache, fever, chills, malaise vomiting & muscular aches   Leptosporosis  
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spirochetes ubiquitous in water & mud can grow in cold temps (as low as 37 F) 1980's Halisco Cheese incident esp. dangerous for pregnant women onset: several days to 3 weeks   Listeriosis  
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pathogenic fungi - Gilcrest's Disease Blastomyces dermatitidis fever, cough, skin lesions   Blastomycosis  
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pathogenic fungi - Thrush - Moniliasis can effect skin, esophagus, GI, bladder can become systemic   Candidiasis  
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pathogenic fungi - Valley Fever inhalation of spores in soil mostly in males 15-25 yrs old flu-like symptoms   Coccidiomycosis  
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pathogenic fungi - Darling's Disease inhalation of spores in moist soil incubation: 5-18 days. malaise weakness chest pains, coughing   Histoplasmosis  
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Rickettsia Coxiella burneti "biological control" in pasturization temperature durable organism   Q-Fever  
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tick borne - Borrelian burgdoferi - spirochete Ixodes ticks - bull's eye pattern incubation: 3-32 days.   Lyme Disease  
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Endemic Typhus - X.cheopis-oriental rat flea Rickettsia prowazeki var. mooseri rats   Murine Typhus  
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Epidemic Typhus - Typhus Fever - louse borne Rickettsia prowazeki var. prowazekii incubation: 12 days. killed many of Napolean's troops   Jail House Fever  
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mite borne Rickettsia tsutsugamushi   Scrub Typhus  
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Rickettsia rickettsii - tick - dermacentor   Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever  
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Protozoan - Entameba histolytica - cyst   Amebic Dysentery  
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cyst - viable for 6 months in soil snails in fresh water - resistant to Cl 4-5 drops Cl per liter H2O or 0.5 ml iodine let stand 20 minutes or longer if water is cold   Cryptosporidium  
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cysts - Hiker's Disease drinking contaminated water 4-5 drops Cl per liter H2O or 0.5 ml iodine let stand 20 minutes or longer if water is cold   Giardia lamblia  
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plasmodium falciparum anophelian female mosquito - 45 degree angle most dangerous disease in the world.   Malaria  
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Tse-tse fly - Trypanosomiasis   African Sleeping Sickness  
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cone nose beetle kissing bug - bites on your mouth   American Trypanosomiasis  
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trematode - swimmer's itch fresh water snails - rice field workers most common water borne disease   Schistosomiasis  
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helminth - taeniasis - beef or pork tapeworms T. saginata - beef T. solium - pork   Cestodes  
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hookworms - anclyostomiasis & necator can survive waste water treatment roundworms - askaris   Nematodes  
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round worms raw fish - cook 140 F for 10 minutes   Anisakiasis  
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fecal-oral - soil - round worms   Askaris  
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pinworms - schools and kids   Enterobiasis  
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intestinal round worm incubation: 10-14 days. cook pork 137 F for 15 minutes   trichinosis  
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hogs consume garbage cook garbage 212 F for 30 minutes   Vesicular exanthema  
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onchocera volvulus (nematode) black flys - lay eggs in swift moving water   river blindness  
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culex wuchereria   elephantitis  
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viral - Culiseta melanura mosquito incubation: 5-15 days.   Eastern Equine Encephalitis  
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viral - Culex tarsalis mosquito incubation: 5-15 days.   St. Louis Encephalitis  
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viral - Culex tarsalis or C. pipens mosquitoes incubation: 5-15 days.   Western Equine Encephalitis  
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viral - Culex tarsalis mosquito incubation: 5-15 days.   West Nile Virus  
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viral - Aedes egypti mosquito incubation: 3-6 days.   Yellow Fever  
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viral - Dermacentor andersoni incubation: 4-5 days.   Colorado Tick Fever  
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fecal-oral "infectious hepatitis" enterovirus incubation: 4-6 weeks.   Hepatitis A  
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blood - IV needles incubation: 4-12 weeks.   Hepatitis B  
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blood - IV needles - transfusions incubation: 4-12 weeks.   Hepatitis C  
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bats hydrophobia negri bodies incubation: 3-6 weeks.   Rabies  
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deer mice droppings - dust 80-90% fatality   Hantavirus  
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fecal-oral - rice water stools profuse watery diarrhea, severe deydration, circulatory collapse   Vibrio cholerae  
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Psittacosis chlyamydia ornithosis incubation: 4-15 days.   Parrot Fever  
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bacillus anthracis - wool sorter's disease 10% formalin sol'n kept at 110 F 4 hours   Anthrax  
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bubonic - X. cheopis oriental rat flea pneumonic - very contagious   Plague  
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deer flys - still water - Rabbit Fever   Tularemia  
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Brucellosis - Bang's Disease in cattle kennel cough - digs blue ring milk test   Undulant Fever  
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bacteria 2 enterotoxins - 24 hour bug heat stable - vomiting - rice heat labile - diarrhea - puddings   Bacillus Cereus  
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floppy baby syndrome - honey onset: 18 hours. neurotoxin - afebrile exotoxin - 7 types A & B - soil & vegetable origin C - causes disease in turtles, birds... D - cattle & sheep E - processed seafood G - no outbreaks, but sudden death A - more le   Botulism  
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