A local physician has admitted a patient for hospital treatment of a sudden febrile illness with nausea and an elevated white blood cell count.  The patient is known to have gone camping one week before onset of illness, and friends report that the patient fed chipmunks while camping.  The physician’s preliminary diagnosis is plague.  What should the environmental health specialist look for?

What characteristic(s) of the common house fly allow(s) it to mechanically transmit pathogens to humans?

Which is an incorrect statement concerning the characteristics and behavior of rodents?

Why is a tee or baffle used on the outlet of the septic tank?

The time course of a disease outbreak, is usually displayed as a/an:

Which is not true of Radon?

W hich disease is commonly associated with birds of the parrot family?

Channel or pipe for conveying fluids. 

An epidemic curve, which follows the classic log-normal pattern of sharp rise and more gradual decline, is most consistent with which manner of spread?

This small parasitic insect feeds exclusively on warm blooded animals, can live for a year between feeding, and resurgence has been attributed to foreign travel and pesticide resistance.  What insect is this?