Public Health: Communicable Disease
and Reporting Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Describe a communicable period - Correct Answers ✅Time during which an infectious agent is transmissible, directly or indirectly, from an infected person or animal to a susceptible person Define a disease. - Correct Answers ✅a condition marked by subjective complaints, a specific history, and clinical signs, symptoms, and laboratory or radiographic findings Describe the information needed for reporting communicable diseases. - Correct Answers ✅-Suspected or confirmed disease or condition -Patient name, date of birth, sex, address, and phone number -Clinical signs and symptoms -Laboratory tests -Clinician name and contact information
Who do you report to in PA? - Correct Answers ✅PA-NEDSS:
Pennsylvania's National Electronic Disease Surveillance System Describe the function of PA-NEDSS. - Correct Answers ✅- Allows for the healthcare system to report diseases and investigative findings 24/7 to the Pennsylvania Department of Health 1 / 3
Public Health: Communicable Disease
and Reporting Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) -Allows the Pennsylvania Department of Health to report diseases and findings to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) PA-NEDSS has ___. - Correct Answers ✅-Secure, online tool providing a consolidated means for analyzing public health data while improving the timeliness of disease reporting -Mandatory electronic disease reporting application for Pennsylvania Who do you report to in New Jersey? - Correct Answers ✅- New Jersey Department of Health → Communicable Disease Service -Reports are made to the local health department where the individual resides What is the NNDSS? - Correct Answers ✅National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System → reporting in the US What is the role of NNDSS? - Correct Answers ✅-Conducts case surveillance -About 3,000 public health departments gather and use data on these diseases -Receives, processes, and provides data on national notifiable diseases 2 / 3
Public Health: Communicable Disease
and Reporting Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025)
-About 120 diseases are under surveillance: Infectious
diseases, Bioterrorism agents, Sexually transmitted infections (STI), Noninfectious conditions When do communicable diseases need to be reported in PA? - Correct Answers ✅24 hours What is the mode of transmission of animal bites? - Correct Answers ✅animal What is the presentation of animal bites? - Correct Answers ✅bite What is the mode of transmission of anthrax? - Correct Answers ✅-Contact with contaminated animals, animal products, animal hides, soil by inoculation of broken skin or mucous membranes -Inhalation of aerosolized spores What is the presentation of anthrax? - Correct Answers ✅eschar → painless, edematous and vesicular surrounding What is the mode of transmission of arbovirus? - Correct Answers ✅-biologic, direct contact -from mosquitos, sand flies, midges, ticks
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