Spread of Disease

Mosquitoes and ticks are examples of organisms that can spread disease. These types of organisms are referred to as?

• Vectors

• Fungi

• Pathogens

Cancer, diabetes, and sickle-cell anemia are examples of what types of disease?

• Non-communicable

• Communicable

Disease transmission by kissing

• indirect

• direct

Contracting the disease by touching a contaminated object is which type of transmission?

• direct

• indirect

• fecal-oral

• vector borne

This term is used when many people in a specific region get sick at the same time.

• Epidemic

• Pandemic

• Diseases

• Pathogens

This term is used when a disease affects a large proportion of the people over numerous regions across the world.

• Epidemic

• Pandemic

• Disease

• Pathogens

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.

One 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

Which is a distinction between an epidemic and a pandemic?

• the symptoms of the disease
• the geographical area affected
• the species of organisms infected
• the season in which the disease spreads

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.