AY Honors/Biosafety/Answer Key 2

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1

Define the following terms:



1a

Biosafety



1b

Biohazard



1c

Risk Factor



1d

Biological material



1e

Chemical or biological accident



1f

Chemical or biological incident



1g

Pathogen




2

Describe which PPEs are used by health professionals. What are they for? Discuss at least five other non-health care fields that routinely use PPE for protection from biohazards and why they are needed.



3

Differentiate between outbreak, epidemic, pandemic and endemic. Make a Venn diagram or chart that shows the things that are the same and those that are different.



4

Develop a list of precautions that should be taken during an epidemic/pandemic.



5

Chart, list, or illustrate the differences between isolation and quarantine.



6

Choose two of the following historic diseases and answer: When did it occur? How many were infected? How was it spread? What were the symptoms? What were the biosafety precautions used? How was it abated?



6a

Smallpox



6b

Typhus



6c

1918 Influenza (Spanish Flu)



6d

Polio



6e

Swine Flu




7

Choose two of the following diseases and answer: What are the symptoms? How is it spread? Is there a cure today? Where and when was there an outbreak/epidemic/pandemic? Is there a prevention for this disease? What are the biohazard safety methods used to combat the spread of this disease?



7a

Cholera



7b

Tuberculosis



7c

Yellow Fever



7d

Measles



7e

Malaria



7f

Ebola




8

Complete the following:



9

How do vaccines work? Why is it important to be up to date with your immunizations?



9a



9b




10

Name a national or global entity that assists in developing and applying disease prevention and control.



11

Explain why it is so important to remove medical gloves properly. Demonstrate the proper way to remove medical gloves without transferring pathogens from the gloves to your hands through the following exercise:



12

Regarding the cleaning of hands:



13

Regarding hand sanitizer:




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