Critters bugging! Test your infectious disease knowledgeSeptember 10, 2019 </p> <section> <h2>Critters bugging! Test your infectious disease knowledge</h2> <p><span style="background-color: #fbfbfb;">According to the </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/infectious-disease.htm" target="_blank" style="background-color: #fbfbfb;" rel="noopener noreferrer">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a><span style="background-color: #fbfbfb;">, infectious and parasitic diseases are responsible for 15.5 million physician visits. In 2016, there were 9,272 new cases of tuberculosis, 53,850 news cases of salmonella and 36,429 new cases of Lyme disease in the U.S. Test your knowledge about some of the endless variety of insects, parasites and viruses worldwide that send people to the hospital. </span></p> </section> <section> <h2>1. This was mistaken in the past for <em>Plasmodium vivax</em> in South America but now is known to be a novel species.</h2> </section> <section> <h3>2. <span style="color: black;">French virologist Françoise Barré-Sinoussi shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for discovery of this virus.</span></h3> </section> <section> <h3>3. <span style="color: black;">Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux developed the first vaccine for this fatal infection in 1885 and administered it to a 9-year-old boy, who as an adult, worked as a janitor at the Pasteur Institute.</span></h3> </section> <section> <h3>4. <span style="color: black;">Oculomasticatory myorhythmia is pathognomonic for Whipple disease of the central nervous system.</span></h3> </section> <section> <h3>5. <em style="color: black;">Borrelia mayonii</em><span style="color: black;"> is the proposed name for a new bacteria species that in the 2013 original report caused which disease in a half dozen people living in the upper Midwestern U.S.</span></h3> </section> <section><span style="color: black;">Protect yourself from these and other infectious agents, and cheer on the Children’s National/NIH team in early October! </span><br /> </section> <section> <h3>[copy] undefined</h3> </section> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> https://innovationdistrict.childrensnational.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Rabies-virus-feature.png 300 400 Innovation District https://innovationdistrict.childrensnational.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/idlogo1-tagline-Advances-in-Medicine.gif Innovation District2019-09-10 13:46:402020-11-09 09:49:09Critters bugging! Test your infectious disease knowledge
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