Review of Disease Testing

What is outbreak investigation in epidemiology?

• Process of studying the long-term effects of an outbreak of a disease or illness

• Process of identifying and controlling the source of an outbreak of a disease or illness

• Process of promoting the use of vaccines during an outbreak of a disease or illness

• Process of preventing the spread of an outbreak of a disease or illness

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

Name one public health intervention used to control disease outbreaks.

• Hand washing

• Quarantine

• Herbal remedies

• Vaccination

What are the sources of epidemiological data?

• Hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies

• Surveillance systems, registries, surveys, and administrative databases

• Social media and internet searches

• Personal interviews and observations

What type of disease pattern spreads rapidly over countries and continents?

• Outbreak

• Pandemic

• Epidemic

• Endemic

Any virus, bacteria, fungi, or parasite that can cause a disease in a living thing is called a

• cancer.

• pathogen.

• gene.

• toxin.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

An organism that holds or carries a pathogen but does not show any symptoms

• Contagion
• Vector
• Carrier
• Host cell

To separate individuals that are known to be affected by a disease from those who are not; done to stop spread of infectious diseases

• Sanitation
• Quarantine
• Infected
• Contagion

Which of the following is NOT a vector of a disease? 

• ticks
• mosquitos
• rats
• viruses

Which word matches the following definition? A correlation between variables that one variable directly effects the other variable

• lurking

• confounding

• causation

• common response

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-1

True or False, for epidemiologists, the "patient" is the entire community.

• True

• False