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Assignment:
1. What is the global health significance of Onchocerciasis?
a. It requires years of treatment, causing a global financial burden.
b. It is the most common fly-related illness world wide.
c. It is the second leading cause of infection-related blindness worldwide.
d. It is a sign of polluted water. Since air, water and food are necessary for environmental health, polluted water is of global health significance.
2. If you never take drugs you will never become a drug addict. In the world of risk assessment, in this example, what is the risk, what is the hazard, and what is the exposure?
a. Hazard = drugs can be addictive
Exposure = taking drugs
Risk = becoming a drug addict
b. Hazard = becoming a drug addict
Exposure = drugs can be addictive
Risk = taking drugs
c. None of the above are correct
d. Hazard = taking drugs
Exposure = Becoming a drug addict
Risk = drugs can be addictive
3. Who is most at risk for developing serious illness from food-borne-illness?
a. President Biden
b. Justin Bieber
c. Kanye West ("Ye")
d. Ariana Grande
4. If you had to chose ONE method that would most effectively prevent foodborne illness, which of the following would have the most impact, across the widest variety of foodborne pathogens?
a. Making sure to properly clean and sanitize all surfaces.
b. Making sure to notify consumers of possible allergens.
c. Making sure that all the refrigerators are holding temperature (41F or below).
d. Making sure that all food handlers are healthy and free of illness.
5. Which of these is an example of the beneficial use of radiation in our modern world?
a. Detects cancer
b. Easily disposed of
c. Causes cancer
d. Causes mutations
6. Today is Thursday. This last weekend, on Sunday, Lynn had dinner at her in-laws' house. She is really trying to heal her relationship with her mother-in-law! But her mother-in-law is a sloppy cook and served Lynn and her spouse chicken that was still pink and bloody inside. Lynn, her spouse, and her brother-in-law woke up this morning with terrible stomach cramps, diarrhea, and fever. What food-borne illness did Lynn's mother-in-law's cooking give them?
a. Hepatitis A
b. Salmonella
c. Norovirus
d. E. Coli 0157:H7
7. The importance of radiation in environmental health is that it can contaminate our air, food and water, resulting in human illness.
a. True
b. False
8. Gamma rays are ...
a. Released by unstable atoms
b. All of these choices
c. None of these choices
d. Ionizing radiation
e. A type of electromagnetic energy
9. It is important to cook raw foods like animal proteins, thoroughly. This is because:
a. Cooking preserves the food for longer periods of time.
b. Cooking removes all foodborne illness-causing toxins.
c. Cooking kills pathogenic bacteria that may be in the food.
d. Cooking removes the water content of food, limiting growth of pathogenic bacteria.
10. You and a friend decide to go buy a fruit cup from one of the street vendors on the corner. You both get really sick from the fruit cup, and call the health department to complain. The health department explains to you that these fruit-cup sellers on the corners, with their shiny metal carts and rainbow umbrellas, are actually unpermitted food operations and they do not have health permits. You ask why, and were told that they do not have any access to hand washing where they cut the fruit, they don't have any approved location to use the restroom, wash their knives and cutting boards, and who knows what conditions they are storing the cart, fruit, ice, and their utensils in. You were also told that cut melons like cantaloupe and honeydew, are potentially hazardous foods because they support the rapid growth of pathogenic organisms. Which CDC risk factor for food-borne-illness does NOT apply to this fruit cart operation?
a. Food from usafe sources.
b. improper cooking temperatures of potentially hazardous foods.
c. Dirty and/or contaminated utensils and equipment.
d. Poor employee health and hygiene.
e. Improper hot/cold holding of potentially hazardous foods.
11. The most sensitive time of fetal development, when the fetus is most prone to birth defects as a result of exposure to environmental toxins, is during the first 2-3 months.
a. True
b. False
12. Which of these diseases is there a treatment for?
a. Zika
b. West Nile Virus
c. Malaria
d. Microcephaly
13. If you add a neutron to an atom you get ?
a. a new element
b. an isotope
c. a radiation
d. a neutrino
14. Radiation is the energy absorbed by a stable atom.
a. True
b. False
15. What is the vector of Lyme Disease?
a. Western Black-Legged Tick
b. Humans
c. Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria
d. White-tailed deer, dogs, and birds
16. What causes malaria?
a. Anopheles mosquitos
b. Highly oxygenated, relatively still water with plant and animal life
c. Malaria virus
d. Plasmodium parasite
17. What step in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is applying synthetic organic chemical pesticides?
a. Synthetic Organic Pesticides are used as part of the last step of IPM.
b. A small, steady amount of synthetic organic pesticides are used throughout all steps of IPM, so that a large dose is never needed.
c. Synthetic organic pesticides are never utilized in IPM
d. Synthetic Organic Pesticides are used as part of the first step of IPM.
18. Dibromo chloropropane (DBCP) is an example of what type of toxin?
a. Nervous System Toxin
b. Reproductive Toxin
c. Teratogen Toxin
d. Developmental Toxin