Nonliving reservoirs of disease, such as a toothbrush, drinking glass, and needle, are called __________ .

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Everyone. And welcome back. Our next question says, which of the following is an example of fomites. A bed sheets. B mosquitoes, C rabid animals or d infected saliva. So to answer this, we just need to recall that fomites are inanimate objects or surfaces that can harbor a pathogen. You might recall that, you know, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a lot of discussion about whether there could be transmission by fomites, whether you could contract the virus by, you know, touching an object that had the virus on it versus having to contract it from another person sneezing or coughing. So with that, it's fairly easy to pick our correct answer, which is choice a bed sheets as these are objects and they, there are pathogens that you could contract the virus by being in close contact with bed sheets that had been used by an infected person. All of our others involve living beings. So choice B mosquitoes that would describe a vector borne illness because you need to be bitten by the mosquito that it also bitten an infected animal or person in me. Try c rabid animals. Obviously, the direct transmission from an animal. You could call that a zoonotic disease can be transmitted from animals to humans and interest the infected saliva, sort of a direct person to person transmission of something or it could be zoonotic as well like in rabies, which can be transmitted from the infected saliva of an animal that's infected. So again, our example of fites or inanimate objects that can harbor a pathogen is choice a bed sheets. See you in the next video.

Nonliving reservoirs of disease, such as a toothbrush, drinking glass, and needle, are called __________ .

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Key Concepts

Fomites

Reservoirs of Infection

Modes of Disease Transmission