Today you are seeing a 35 year old, with no complaints except for her broken finger. Prior to doing surgery to fix the finger bone, your assistant collects blood for routine blood work. The results come back indicating high glucose levels, Diabetes. Should we start treatment immediately so she does not progress to the symptomatic stage of Diabetes? a. True
b. False

Hiv is inactivated in the laboratory after a few minutes of sitting at room temperature, but the flu virus is still active after sitting for several hours. what are the practical consequences of these findings? a) hiv can be transmitted more easily from person to person than the flu virusb) the flu virus can be transmitted more easily from person to person than hivc) this property of hiv makes it more likely to be a pandemic than the flu virusd) disinfecting surfaces is more important to reduce the spread of hiv than the flu

Its totally for health > : ) random questions- free points. 1. grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4. 2. stretch your left arm out as far as you can, what can you touch? 3. before you started this survey, what were you doing? 4. what is the last thing you watched on tv? 5. without looking, guess what time it is 6. now look at the clock. what is the actual time? 7. with the exception of the computer, what can you hear? 8. when did you last step outside? what were you doing? 9. did you dream last night? 10. do you remember your dreams? 11. when did you last laugh? 12. do you remember why / at what? 13. what is on the walls of the room you are in? 14. seen anything weird lately? 15. what do you think of this quiz? 16. what is the last film you saw? 17. if you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? 18. if you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy? 19. tell me something about you that most people don't know. 20. if you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?

Which of the following best reflects what we know about how the flu virus moves between species? a) the flu virus in a pig is mutated and replicated in alternate arrangements so that humans who eat the pig products can be infected. b) a flu virus from a human epidemic or pandemic infects birds; the birds replicate the virus differently and then pass it back to humans. c) an influenza virus gains new sequences of dna from another virus, such as a herpesvirus; this enables it to be transmitted to a human host. d) an animal such as a pig is infected with more than one virus, genetic recombination occurs, the new virus mutates, the virus is passed to a new species such as a bird, and the virus mutates again and can now be transmitted to humans.