Questions:

Q1. Diseases that have recently appeared in a population as a result of a new virus or the recognition of a previously undetected virus and are often zoonotic are known as _________________________.

Q2. Hendra and ___________ are zoonotic diseases caused by viruses belonging to family Paramyxoviridae .

Q3. Natural reservoirs for Hendra and Nipah viruses are ___________ of the genus Pteropus.

Q4. Arenaviruses are transmitted through ____________________.

Q5. Prions were discovered by _______________________.

Q6. Viroids are ____________ pathogens that contain circular single stranded RNA as a genetic material.

Q7. Mad cow disease and scrapie are _____________ prion disease.

Q8. Creutzfeldt – jakob disease is a ______________ prion disease.

Q9. Prions are the infectious proteins and are also called as ____________.

Q10. Lassa fever belongs to the family _______________________________.

Q11. _____________________________ causes fatal haemmorhagic disease in humans and non human primates.

Answers:

• 1.  Emerging infectious viral diseases

  2.  Nipah

  3.  Flying fox or fruit bats

  4.  Rodents

  5.  Stanley prusiner

  6.  Plant

  7.  Animal

  8.  Human

  9.  Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

  10.  Arenaviridae

  11.  Ebola