SciOly - Disease Detectives

Until this year, Disease Detectives rotated between topics every two years. Now, the event focuses on all of the following designated topics except which one?

• Food Borne Illness

• Environmental Quality

• Population Growth

• Mathematical Studies

Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states in specified ______, and the application of this to control health problems.

• Populations

• Individuals

• Animals

• Insects

Skilled statistical analysis is an essential skill in epidemiology.

• True

• False

Mortality is the rate of ________.

• disease in a population

• death in a population

• general dissatisfaction among a population

• poverty in a population

An epidemic is a small number of people over a wide geographical area that are affected.

• True

• False

A plague is all but:

• potentially life-threatening

• usually transmitted to humans

• safe

• Infectious

What is an example of a vector?

• Mosquito (malaria)

• Human

• Fleas (tapeworms)

• Ticks (Lyme disease)

Symptomatic describes one showing symptoms or signs of injury.

• True

• False

Lice on a comb can make your hair itch. The lice are the agent, and the comb is the ____.

• Fomite

• Disease

• Health Official

• Patient

Epidemiology incorporates etiology, which refers to the study of:

• The cause of a disease

• animals

• Organic particles

• The atmosphere