Pandemics and epidemics

Millions of people living all over the world have cancer. Is cancer a pandemic?

• No, because cancer is not contagious.
• No, because cancer is not always fatal.
• Yes, because millions of people have cancer.
• Yes, because people all over the world have cancer.

A city has an outbreak of a disease that affects an unusually large portion of its population at the same time. Which term BEST describes the outbreak?

• pandemic
• plague
• epidemic
• infection

In 1918, an outbreak of influenza infected 500,000 people all over the world. Tens of millions of those infected died. In 1994, an outbreak of pneumonic plague spread quickly through the city of Surat in India, killing 52 people.
Which statement BEST describes the two events?

• Both outbreaks were pandemics.
• Both outbreaks were epidemics.
• The influenza outbreak was a pandemic. The plague outbreak was an epidemic.
• The influenza outbreak was an epidemic. The plague outbreak was a pandemic.

A unicellular organism that does not have a nucleus

• fungus
• bacteria
• biome
• virus

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A disease causing organism

• pathogen
• poison
• vaccine
• prokaryote

The flu is caused by

• bacteria
• virus

Bacteria are called _____ because their DNA is not contained in a nucleus.

• prokaryotes
• eukaryotes
• cells
• viruses

Bacteria undergo which type of reproduction? 

• asexual
• sexual

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If you go to a doctor and are prescribed antibiotics you probably have an illness cause by a 

• virus
• bacteria
• host cell
• macrophage

Antibiotic resistant bacteria are a problem because:

• we can't help people with those infections
• bacteria smell pretty bad
• something about viruses
• they are not a problem, I love being sick

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