NUR 213 Bioterrorism

NUR 213 Bioterrorism
1. What is bioterrorism?
Answer
The deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, or other microbes as weapons.
2. 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.
3. What has the CDC done with bioterrorism?
Answer
assigned highest priority to bio- logical agents that pose the greatest risk of threat and harm.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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].
7. Treatment for small pox is?
Answer
There is none, it's a virus, but there is a vaccine. mainly supportive care because we don't want
it to spread.