Epidemics and Pandemics

Which example best illustrates a pandemic?

• In the late 1400’s, native populations were almost wiped out by European diseases.

• In 1854, cholera spread through London, killing 12.5% of the population.

• The Hong Kong Influenza caused a million people worldwide in 1968.

• Last year, seasonal flu was responsible for thousands of deaths in the United States.

Epidemic chicken pox outbreaks were once common, but their occurrence has greatly diminished. Which best explains this?

• Children receive immunity to the chicken pox virus from their mothers.

• The chicken pox virus has largely been eradicated by the improvement of cleanliness in the poultry industry.

• The chicken pox vaccine is now given to children before they start school, which has greatly reduced the number of viral infections.

• Increased hand washing has greatly reduced the spread of the chicken pox virus.

The spread or transmission of disease from one person to another by close contact is know as

• transmission

• contagion

• vaccine

• epidemic

An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide.

• epidemic

• outbreak

• ebola

• pandemic

An example of an epidemic would be the

• Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus

• Common Cold

• Hong Kong Influenza

• Spanish Influenza

noncommunicable disease

• a disease that is transmitted by another person, a vector, or the environment. For example Alzheimer's, asthma, diabetes, heart disease.

• mosquito carrying malaria to millions in the early 1900's

• a disease that is not transmitted by another person, a vector, or the environment. For example Alzheimer's, asthma, diabetes, heart disease.

• ebola infecting people in Africa, then being carried to the US by a Dr. who was infected while treating people in Africa.

quarantine

• isolation of infected individuals to prevent the spread of disease.

• using vaccines to eradicate viruses

• the way the World Health Organization begins to notify people if there is an epidemic

• the most destructive type of pandemic

example of pandemic

• athlete's foot

• influenza

• common cold

• HIV/AIDS

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Why is the quality of sanitation a important in reducing disease outbreaks?

• To increase the number of disease carriers.

• To decrease the number of infectious disease cases..

• To decrease the amount of available food resources.

• To increase the amount of necessary medical treatment.

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Occurs when an infectious disease spreads rapidly to many people in one region.

• Epidemic
• Outbreak
• Pandemic
• HIV/AIDs