'Outbreak' For Diehards, Part 5 Quiz

Answer: Minimal

In this level, you don't need vaccinations, but you still need to wear protective clothing. The viruses in this level can't kill you, but can make you extremely ill.

Answer: Moderate

Also in this level you don't need vaccinations, and you must wear protective clothing. The viruses here can kill you, but not in hours or days.

Answer: High

In this level you must have vaccinations and wear protective clothing. Some of these viruses can kill you in a matter of days. While some can take years to kill you.

Answer: Extreme

The viruses in here can kill you in hours or days. You must wear protective clothing. There are no vaccinations for these viruses.

Answer: Hepatitis, Lyme Disease, and Influenza

Hepatitis kills the liver, therefore killing you. Lyme Disease is passed to humans via the bite of an infected tick carrying the microorganism. Symptoms include a 'bull's eye' rash at the site of the bite, malaise, fever, headache, muscle aches, and swollen lymph nodes. If left untreated, Lyme disease may progress to cause damage to the heart, joints, and nerves of infected individuals.

Influenza is a contagious disease that is caused by the influenza virus. It attacks the respiratory tract in humans.

This information comes from the Hepatitis official website, the Lyme Disease official website, and the CDC Influenza official website.

Answer: Pneumococcus and Salmonella

Pneumococcus is a bacteria that causes serious infections in adults and children, including pneumonia, blood infections, and meningitis. Salmonella is characterized by diarrhea, abdominal cramps, vomiting and nausea, and generally lasts up to 7 days. Unfortunately, in immunocompromised people, that is the elderly, young, or people with depressed immune systems, Salmonella infections are often fatal if they are not treated with antibiotics.

This information comes from the Pneumococcus official website and the Salmonella official website.

Answer: Ebola, Lassa, and Hanta

The Lassa virus is a severe form of epidemic fever first identified in Lassa, Nigeria. It is caused by the Lassa virus, a member of Arenaviridae. The illness is characterized by high fever, sore throat, muscle aches, skin rash (with hemorrhages), headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea.

A rat serves as a reservoir for the illness, but person to person transmission is also reported. The Hanta Virus is a disease agent that occurs naturally throughout most of North and South {America;} it is airborne, and in the absence of prompt medical attention, its infections are usually fatal. Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a severe, often-fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates that has appeared sporadically since its initial recognition in 1976.

This information comes from the official Lassa website, the Hanta official website, and the Ebola CDC official website.

Answer: Anthrax, Typhus, and HIV

Anthrax can be contracted through the digestive system, abrasions on the skin or inhaled through the lungs. It is often fatal. Typhus is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii, which is carried by body lice. When the lice feed on a human, they may simultaneously defecate.

When the person scratches the bite, the feces (which carries the bacteria) are scratched into the wound. Body lice are common in areas where people live in overcrowded, dirty conditions, with few opportunities to wash themselves or their clothing. Because of this fact, this form of typhus occurs simultaneously in large numbers of individuals living within the same {community;} that is, in epidemics.

This type of typhus occurs when cold weather, poverty, war, and other disasters result in close living conditions which encourage the maintenance of a population of lice living among humans. Epidemic typhus is now found in the mountainous regions of Africa, South America, and Asia. Recent research indicates that HIV replicates prodigiously and destroys many cells of the immune system each day.

But this growth is met, usually for many years, by a vigorous defensive response that blocks the virus from multiplying out of control. Commonly, however, the balance of power eventually shifts so that HIV gains the upper hand and causes the severe immune impairment that defines full-blown AIDS. This information comes from the Anthrax official website, the Typhus official website, and the HIV official website.

Answer: False

The Motaba virus was made for the movie, it does not exist. The closest virus would be Ebola.

Answer: Blue

When the scenes involving the Biosafety levels were shown, you can clearly see the blue protective clothing.