This manual covers vertebrates of public health significance, including domestic rodents such as roof rats and house mice, and also poisonous snakes and vertebrates such as ground squirrels that may serve as resevoirs for human disease pathogens. The manual is designed to help prepare government agency employees for testing for competence under Category C - Vertebrtes.

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There are three sets of questions in Category D.  Each set covers subject areas in approximately the same order as they appear in the latest Category D training manual.

 

The subject area covered are as follows:

 

Part I. Biology of domestic rodents and rodent-borne diseases.

These study aids are designed to assist those looking to test themselves in the subject matter found in the latest Category D training manual.

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Category D includes the biology of vertebrate animals (animals with backbones) and that are associated with public health problems in some way, especially in connection with infectious diseases of people. Domestic and wild rodents fall under this category, with special emphasis on domestic rats and mice, and wild rodents that are associated with hantavirus infections of humans. Other such animals of concern include possums, skunks, squirrels, and poisonous snakes. Methods of control of some of these animals is included, most frequently those animals such as Norway rats and house mice that are closely associated with human habitats.