Scenario: You are the manager of a local health clinic. You are preparing inform
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Scenario: You are the manager of a local health clinic. You are preparing informational material for the community on various health subjects. Choose and research one specific pathogen that could be used for biological terrorism or warfare. You will create a brochure that highlights the background of the potential threat and details about how you hope the community would respond if one were to occur.
Include the common name, scientific name, threat category, mode of transmission, any vaccines available against the pathogen, as well as the host, and/or vector.
Describe the incubation period after transmission, any dose requirements or other conditions necessary for successful infection, symptoms, and infectiousness. Include the typical course of disease once acquired, treatment options, and lethality of the pathogen if it cannot be successfully treated.
If a release of this agent were to occur in your community, what steps would you advise residents to take both in preparation for and/or immediately during an attack? What would be the impact on local resources? Residents would like some reassurance but would also benefit from being prepared.
Resources to get you started
Biological Attack: Human Pathogens, Biotoxins, and Agricultural Threats
https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/prep_biological_fact_sheet.pdf
Disease Emergence and Resurgence: The Wildlife-Human Connection, Chapter 6: Biowarfare, Bioterrorism, and Animal Diseases as Bioweapons, Pages 233-265
http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/disease_emergence/Chapter6.pdf
Explanation / Answer
There are various organisms in the world which are still unidentified and causing life endangering disease and death finally.
A recent outbreak of "Nipah virus" is a threat to human life and has already killed many lives .
It is a zoonotic virus belonging to Pteropdidae family. Pteropdidae genus
It is spread by fruit bats.
It is also spread by pigs and other animals
The first outbreak was reported in Malaysia in 1998 and then in Bangladesh in 2004 and India by 2004 and 2018
It is transmitted by direct contact, animals to humans,contaminated fruits,date palm
The incubation period is generally from infection to onset of symptoms.
In most cases the onset is 4 to 14 days ,in very rare cases it may be for 45 days.
The signs and symptoms are
The diagnosis is done by
Treatment
Prognosis
Prevention
Personal protective equipment
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