Chapter 36
Review Questions

1. Briefly describe each of the major or most common viral diseases in terms of its causative agent
   signs and symptoms
   the course of infection
   mechanism of pathogenesis
   epidemiology
   prevention and/or treatment.

2. Why are slow virus diseases not caused by slow viruses?

3. Which virus is responsible for each of the following:
   shingles
   German measles
   influenza
   measles
   mumps
   smallpox?
   

4. What are respiratory syndromes?

5. From an epidemiological perspective, why are most arthropod-borne viral diseases hard to control?

6. In terms of molecular genetics, why is the common cold such a prevalent viral infection in humans?

7. What are the differences between the five types of hepatitis?

8. Which viral diseases can be transmitted by sexual contact?

9. Why are the herpesviruses called persistent viruses?

10. What viruses specifically attack the nervous system?

11. Why is rabies such a feared disease?

12. Which viruses can cause encephalitis? Hepatitis?

13. What are two types of mononucleosis?

14. Will it be possible to eradicatemany viral diseases in the same way as smallpox? Why or why not?

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