Infectious Disease Quiz Study

Disease causing agent that have the ability to make you sick

• Pathogen

• Diseases

• Animals

– Animals can spread diseases

• True

• False

Which of the following is an example of direct contact with an infected person?

• sneezing

• shaking hands

Which of the following is NOT responsible for causing infectious diseases?

• Miasma

• Bacteria

• Fungi

• Viruses

Which is NOT one way that pathogens spread?

• droplets in the air

• food

• through animals

• water

• through email

Which best distinguishes an infectious disease from a noninfectious disease?

• Infectious diseases can be cured with antibiotics; noninfectious diseases cannot.
• Infectious diseases can be prevented with vaccines; noninfectious diseases cannot.
• Infectious diseases can be spread from one organism to another; noninfectious diseases cannot.
• Infectious diseases cannot be transmitted from one organism to another; noninfectious diseases can.

_______ Is any condition that interferes with the proper functioning of the body or mind

• disease
• infection
• pathogen

period of time in which a pathogen reproduces itself rapidly before an immune response starts

• incubation period

• nonspecific defense system

• symptom

• passive immunity

An individual that is symptom-free but capable of passing the pathogen is called a _________.

• carrier

• pathogen

• vector

• human

If an epidemic is widespread throughout a large region, continent, or entire global, it is considered a ________.

• bacteria

• pandemic

• endemic

• endemic