The Defense Department is providing education on potential bioterrorism agents. The instructor asks the nurses to identify the correct causative agent for an illness. Which response best demonstrates understanding?
a. Ricin; castor bean oil
b. Tularemia; deerfly
c. Smallpox; infected flea
d. Pneumonic plague; mice
ANS: B
The deerfly is one of the culprits responsible for transmitting tularemia, which also is known as "deerfly fever" or "rabbit fever."
Ricin is associated with the "mash" left from the making of castor bean oil and is not a result of the oil itself.
Smallpox is transmitted person to person and cannot be transmitted by insects or animals.
Pneumonic plague is caused by the bite by a flea infected with the causative organism.
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