QUESTIONS

1. What is a zoonotic disease (or zoonosis)?
2. Protection against zoonoses calls for an awareness by all veterinary personnel of the potential hazards associated with the handling of animals (both alive and dead), animal secretions, faeces and gut contents and laboratory samples. Describe ways in which protection may be afforded.
3. All animal faeces are potentially hazardous, but special precautions must be taken when handling patients with diarrhoea. Why is this?
4. List 10 ways in which you would advise clients to protect against infection by zoonotic diseases.
5. List 10 zoonotic diseases and state the disease causing micro-organism/s of each.
6. List 6 countries in addition to the UK that are free from rabies.
7. What tissues are primarily targeted by the rhabdovirus responsible for the transmission of rabies?
8. What is sylvatic rabies?
9. What is urban rabies?
10. How is rabies transmitted?
11. What is the incubation period of rabies?
12. What 3 factors determine the speed at which the clinical signs of rabies develop?
13. List 4 ways in which toxoplasmosis may be transmitted to man.