Benchmark Disease 2023

You can attain the Common Cold by touching a contaminated object or person by doing the following:

• Rub your eyes

• Pick your nose

• put fingers in your mouth

• scratch yourself

Influenza can lead to what other complications if they go improperly untreated

• Bronchilitis

• Measles

• Malaria

• Chicken Pox

• Pneumonia

What is the most common viral infection to cause pneumonia?

• tuberculosis

• common cold

• influenza

• bronchitis

When was the Spanish Flu?

• 1919

• 1980

• 1918

• 1920

If you "aspirate" a French fry, what does that mean?

• The French Fry went down the wrong pipe or into a lung

• You just got pneumonia

• You are gagging

Why is Hospital Acquired Pneumonia is more serious?

• Patient already sick, with weaker immune system

• Microbes in hospitals are more resistant to antibiotics

• They maybe on a ventilator, can't cough

Malaria is normally transmitted by which of the following infected creatures.

• Tsetse Fly

• Mosquito

• House fly

• Daddy long legs

The type of drugs and length of treatment for Malaria depends on which of the following?

• age

• if your pregnant

• your weight

• type of Malaria parasite

• severity of the symptoms

Which area of the world is most common place to be infected with Malaria?

• Africa

• Southeast Asia

• Dominican Republic

• Florida Everglades

The main symptom of Acute Bronchitis is?

• headaches

• Blocked nose

• Coughing for weeks

• Fever