Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hiv, West Nile Fever, Emerging Infectious Diseases
23 Oct 2020
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The bite of blood safety: environmental health 2. In the summer of 2002, ontario and quebec experienced an epidemic of west nile virus, associated with bites from mosquitoes. The public became very concerned that they were at risk of infection, and that the west nile virus could be transmitted through the blood supply. Social and built environments: chemical and physical hazards. Vector-borne diseases (vbd) are infections that are transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected arthropod such as mosquito or tick: misquito , west nile virus, eastern equine encephalitis, zika. America: wnv was first detected in ontario in birds in 2001, with the first human cases the following year, wnv infection in humans first became a disease of public health significance in ontario in 2003. Mosquitoes: west nile virus, eastern equine encephalitis and zika are all viruses. Severe cases symptoms: brain inflammation, muscle weakness, paralysis, death.
