Question 15

(Multiple Choice)

A 50-year-old woman from Key West presents with a mosquito-borne viral disease in which her antiviral antibodies from an infection nearly a decade ago were thought to have an "enhancing" effect so that the current reinfection with the virus caused a more serious bleeding disease. What is the causative agent?


A) Coxsackie A virus
B) Dengue virus
C) Hanta virus
D) Rubella virus
E) West Nile virus

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