NUR 213 Bioterrorism
- What is bioterrorism?
Answer The deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, or other microbes as weapons.
- What should the US public health system do with bioterrorism?
Answer must be prepared to respond to and treat the diseases caused by these agents.
- What has the CDC done with bioterrorism?
Answer assigned highest priority to bio- logical agents that pose the greatest risk of threat and harm.
- Small pox was eradicated when?
Answer Back in 1977 and it is coming back. Smallpox can kill you if you have a different infection going on inside of your body.
- What do we do with the people infected with small pox as precaution?
Answer Need to be kept in a closed area, on contact and droplet precautions. Need to watch all the people they've had contact with, may all be quarantined.
- SS of small pox are?
Different than chicken pox because chicken pox stays more central the majority of the time.
Answer Rash on the face and extremities
High fever, malaise, prostration Rash after 1 to 2 days [face/mouth to throat/forearms to trunk].
- Treatment for small pox is?
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Answer There is none, it's a virus, but there is a vaccine. mainly supportive care because we don't want it to spread.
- What is Anthrax?
Answer Bacillus anthracis, a spore-forming bacterium.
- What are the 3 types of Anthrax and explain them?
Answer Cutaneous-may get on finger if we touch it, can cause a rash on the finger but cannot be spread from person to person.
Respiratory-gets into the air and we breathe it in.
Gastrointestinal-from eating infected meat, has not been any in the US.
- Inhalation of anthrax is treated successfully with what?
where are they kept?Answer ciprofloxacin 400mg IV. Need to support the rest of their bodily functions, in the ICU.
- If another strain of anthrax was used in a bioterrorism attack, what would happen.
Answer It may be difficult to treat.
- What are the healthcare precautions for Anthrax?
Answer Standard precautions, patient NOT contagious.
- SS of respiratory anthrax are?
Answer flu like, general. If a person inhales anthrax, they cannot give it to anyone else, this doesn't pass from person to person.
- How do the authorities see if Anthrax is weaponized?
Answer By assessing if a large group of people in the same area all have the same SS.
- Anthrax can be weaponized, but how?
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