Biological and Social Hazards

Infectious diseases

• are caused by inheritance

• are caused by pathogens such as a virus or bacterium

• are based on risk assessment

• are heart disease and include illegal drugs

Disease transmission is generally caused by

• falls and motor vehicle accidents

• risk assessment

• humans, water or food, or by other organisms

• epidemiology and toxicology

Cholera, which comes from human feces and sewage contamination, is a good example of how wastewater treatment plants spread disease

• True

• False

A pandemic is an outbreak that becomes widespread and affects a whole

• region

• continent

• world

• all of the above

An emerging disease could be completed new to the human population or has existed for a while but is increasing rapidly or spreading around the world

• True

• False

Increasing mobility is

• a cause of the spread of emerging disease because of people moving around.

• a way for antibiotic resistance to occur

• deforestation's way of making animals change locations

• happening because of climate change

The World Health Organizations recommendations about the Coronavirus, is an example of a

• National Response

• International Response

• Regional Response

• Local Response

The CDC's recommendation to the Coronavirus, is what type of response

• Global

• International

• National

• Regional

Eating potato chips could be considered a social hazard if your diet primarily consists of fatty food

• True

• False

Do you think that modern medicine will ever eliminate biological hazards from Earth? Why or why not?