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janus is a keen baseball player at the high school where you are employed as a nurse. He comes to your office and shows you an injury to his knee which he got by sliding into home base, scoring a game-winning run. His knee has a red, raw patch where the skin has been scraped off, and the area around the wound is swollen. Janus tells you that he washed his knee with soap and water to remove any germs and then put a bandage on it. Janus' knee infection should be considered an emerging infectious disease, and you should report it to the centers of disease control (CDC). true or false?
Explanation / Answer
Emerging infectious disease is defined as those whose infection has increased in the last 20 years and has the potential to increase in the near future. Some of the examples of emerging infectious diseases include HIV/AIDS, Lyme's disease, drug resistant tuberculosis, methicillin resistant staphylococci aureus etc.
Janus's knee has swollen, become red and painful. The prepettalar bursa in his knee could have been infected with methicillin resistant staphylococci which is normally found in his skin. When this bacteria is suspected, the knee infection should be considered as an emerging infectious disease and reported to the centers of disease control (CDC). So, this statement is true.
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