Microbiology 8.L.1

Why would only one person getting sick from a new disease be considered an outbreak?

• outbreaks happen whenever more people are infected than expected, so if the disease is new, then any infections are more than expected

• only situations with 100 or more cases are considered an outbreak

• new diseases are of much greater concern than known diseases

• it depends on where that person is in relation to the rest of the population

Plasmodium is the parasite that causes malaria. Plasmodium is transferred to people by mosquitoes. Which of the following would best describe mosquitoes in this situation?

• pathogens

• decomposers

• parasites

• vectors

If you were to see a picture of a prokaryote and a eukaryote, how would you expect them to be different?

• the prokaryote would have a nucleus and the eukaryote would not

• the eukaryote would have a nucleus and the prokaryote would not

• the prokaryote would be a living thing and the eukaryote would not

• the eukaryote would be a living thing and the prokaryote would not

Ten people got sick after attending a school dance. Which is the best explanation for how this happened?

• contacted with an infected animal

• contact with an infected object

• contact with an infected person

• contact with environmental sources

Jeff has an infection that is causing him a variety of symptoms all across his body, but his doctor refuses to give him antibiotics. Why is this?

• his doctor does not want to contribute to creating supergerms by giving antibiotics

• They cannot be used in all weather conditions

• They can only be used near water supplies

• His infection is viral, not bacterial

Penicillin is an example of:

• how viruses can be helpful

• how fungi can be helpful

• how bacteria can be helpful

• a disease caused by microbes in the air

Which of the following situations would most likely be classified as a pandemic?

• people in 11 states got sick after eating contaminated beef from a certain meat packing plant

• two nearby camps experienced an outbreak of cholera traced back to unsanitary drinking water

• between 1918 and 1919, one third of the world's population was infected with the Spanish Flu

• a measles outbreak in Indiana was caused by several children whose parents chose not to have them vaccinated for measles

Why is it harder to treat viral infections than bacterial infections?

• viral infections are systemic, affecting multiple body systems at once

• the body cannot learn how to fight viral infections

• bacterial infections are actually much harder to treat than viral infections

• because antiviral drugs do not work on them

Valley Fever is caused by a fungus that lives in the American Southwest and Mexico, but nowhere else. What word best describes Valley Fever?

• pandemic

• endemic

• exodemic

• pathodemic

Amoxycillin is an antibiotic. Why is it likely that this drug will not work to make your grandchildren better?

• the bacteria it kills now will have mutated a resistance to it by then

• It only kills certain viruses

• the bacteria it kills now will all be gone leaving it nothing to work on

• amoxycillin will always be effective

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