Impact of Disease on Populations Without Herd Immunity

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According to the graph, which disease caused approximately 8 million deaths in Mexico around the year 1520?

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Smallpox

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Outbreak

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A sudden and unexpected increase in the occurrence of a disease.

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What is the term for the following definition? A dramatically increased occurrence of a disease in a particular community at a particular time.

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Epidemic

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What is the term for the following definition? An epidemic that has spread across multiple countries and/or continents.

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Pandemic

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Protection against a disease created by antibodies and memory cells produced by an individual's own immune system without medical intervention.

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Natural active immunity

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Due to the increasing spread of diseases brought by Europeans, it infected and killed thousands of ________ people.

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Indigenous

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Before the Europeans arrived in Australia, did the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people have a healthy lifestyle, a well-balanced diet, with varied food sources and an intricate knowledge and use of natural medicines?

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True

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Within the first 50 years of European settlement, over what percentage of the indigenous population had decreased due to new European pathogens?

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60%

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What was the result for Indigenous people who encountered measles as adults?

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They experienced a severe case of it

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What was the reason Indigenous populations experienced severe cases of measles?

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They had no natural immunity amongst the population