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MCB 2010C- Homework
MMWR Assignment- Fall 2016
Name _____________________________
VC/Gessner/ Section _________________
This assignment, when completed correctly, counts for 25 points.
Go to www.cdc.gov to The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s official site and
complete the assignment.
1. Under the Diseases and Conditions tab, click “More” and then click on “Tuberculosis
(TB)”. Read about tuberculosis and answer the following:
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There is a difference between the Mantoux skin test and the BCG vaccine for
tuberculosis, both of which are done with an injection; answer the following:
Is the Mantoux (PPD) skin test performed in the United States?
Is the BCG vaccine routinely given in the United States?
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There is a difference between latent TB infection and TB disease; compare and
contrast the two by answering the following questions:
Latent TB infection:
a) What signs and symptoms, if any, will this patient show?
b) Will this patient have a positive PPD skin test?
c) Is this patient infectious to others?
d) What results are seen with a chest X-ray or sputum smear?
e) Does this patient need antibiotics, like isoniazid, rifapentine or rifampin?
TB disease:
a) What signs and symptoms, if any, will this patient show?
b) Will this patient have a positive PPD skin test
c) Is this patient infectious to others?
d) What results are seen with a chest X-ray or sputum smear?
e) Does this patient need antibiotics like isoniazid, rifapentine or rifampin?
2. Going back to the CDC home page, click on the link to “Emergency Preparedness.” Click
on the Bioterrorism link and under “Specific Bioterrorism Agents” find the link to read
about anthrax.
A. What are the four (4) types of anthrax?
B. Can you get anthrax from another human?
C. What two (2) measures are to be used to prevent anthrax in someone who has been
exposed to the bacillus but is not yet sick?
3. Go back to the CDC home page, and click the link to “Healthy Living” to find “Vaccines
and Immunizations.”
A. Click on Immunization Schedules and find the 2016 CDC immunization
schedule recommendations (for health care professionals) for Birth – 18
Years and Catch-up. Pick a schedule under View and Print schedules. As you
look at the vaccine schedule, you will notice many of the vaccines have
names you may not initially understand. Give the scientific names of the
disease or diseases (for viruses you can use their common name) that each of
the following vaccinations is intended to prevent (you may have to look some
of these up from another reference source):
1. MMR:
2. Hib:
3. RV:
4. IPV:
5. DTaP:
6. Tdap:
7. PCV13:
8. Meningococcal B:
9. PPSV23:
10. HepA:
11. HepB:
12. 4vHPV:
13. LAIV:
14. VAR:
4. Go back to the CDC home page, and look under “Traveler’s Health” and look under
“Destinations.” Choose a country (from Central or South America, Africa or Asia, only) that
begins with the same letter that begins your last name, or that is one letter before or one
letter after the letter that begins your last name, and list any vaccines and medications and
what malarial prevention the CDC recommend you get before traveling to that country.
(Example: for my last name of Gessner, I could pick a country that begins with the letters F, G or
H)
Name of Country = ________________________________
What vaccines should you get before you visit this country? (Remember to get these
well in advance of your departure)
Name any insect transmitted diseases that you should be concerned about when
visiting this country and what preventative measures should you take if you want
to remain free of these diseases?
5. Go back to the CDC home page and click on the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
(MMWR) link under the heading “About CDC,” “Science” Click on Publications, click on Weekly
Report and then, under Current Issue, click on Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables” for the
MMWR issue of the week that you are completing this assignment.
What is the date of the current issue you are using for this homework? ______________
Go to Table 1, for the MMWR issue that you are reviewing, and answer the following:
A) What is the cumulative total of infant botulism cases that have been
reported thus far during 2016 in the United States?
B) How many more cases of infant botulism were reported in 2015 compared to
2011, in the United States?
Scroll down to Table II, for the MMWR issue that you are reviewing, and answer the
following questions for the assigned reportable disease, occurring in Florida,
corresponding to the first letter of your last name:
(If your last name begins with the letters A – E, answer for Chlamydia; F – J,
answer for Giardia; K – O, answer for Lyme Disease; P – T, answer for
Rabies; U – Z, answer for Varicella)
My chosen reportable disease is _______________________________________.
A) How many cases of your assigned disease were reported during the current
week you are doing this homework?
B) What was the median number of cases/week of your assigned disease
reported during the previous 52 weeks?
C) For the week you are doing this homework, are we above or below the
median number of cases of your assigned disease reported for the previous
52 weeks?
D) Cumulatively, how many cases of your assigned disease have been reported
thus far in 2016?
_________/ 25 points