Question of the Day

Question - How quickly can the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) assets be deployed?

Question - What is the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), who manages this program, and who is empowered to request assets of the SNS?

Question - What class of cancer chemotherapeutic agents are the most common implicated in causing nail toxicity?

Question - It is well known that the introduction of tattoo ink into the dermis may promote an immunologic response. What color ink is most commonly associated with such reactions?

Question - What are the traditional and nontraditional vectors of saxitoxins to humans causing paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP)?

Question - What is blister beetle dermatosis?

Question - Several workers at two poultry slaughter house facilities recently reported fever, dry cough, headache and muscle aches. What pulmonary disease is the most likely cause for these symptoms in this group of workers?

Question - What currently phased out, odorless, colorless fumigant gas, used to control a wide variety of pests in agriculture and shipping, including fungi, weeds, insects, nematodes (or roundworms), and rodents, has been noted to be an important ozone depleting agent?

Question - Anti-epidermal growth factor receptor drugs are used in a variety of cancer treatments. What skin manifestation is associated with the use of these drugs and what is the currently recommended treatment for this manifestation?

Question - Latex is derived from rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis) and reactions to latex can be caused by allergic or non-allergic hypersensitivity. Immune type reactions to latex include immediate hypersensitivity (type I) or delayed hypersensitivity (type IV) type reactions. What popular holiday plant belongs to the same plant family as natural rubber latex and thus exposure may result in cross sensitivity in individuals who suffer from latex allergy?