Pandemic and Epidemic Review

Which term refers to the spread of disease in a small region?

• antibiotic

• epidemic

• pandemic

• parasitic

How are an epidemic and pandemic alike?

• Both involve a viral infection

• Both involve a bacterial infection

• Both involve an outbreak of a disease

• Both involve small numbers of infected individuals

On Monday, Kari exhibits, no symptoms of a viral illness. She is sick on Tuesday and stays hone from school. On Wednesday, her friends stay home with the same illness, despite having no contact with Kari when she was sick on Tuesday. which is the most likely explanation of how the other students became sick?

• Kari was immune to the virus but infected the other students

• the virus mutated and infected the other students after Kari got sick

• Kari was infected with the virus before she experienced any symptoms

• The virus was a carrier , and the other students were infected after Kari got sick

Which best distinguishes an infectious disease from a noninfectious disease?

• Infectious disease can be cured with antibiotics; noninfectious disease

• Infectious disease can be prevented with vaccines; noninfectious diseases cannot

• infectious diseases can be spread from one organism to another; noninfectious disease cannot.

• infectious disease cannot be transmitted from one organism to another; noninfectious can

Scientists are trying to prevent an epidemic of a highly contagious disease. What information should the scientists study first?

• how the disease reproduces

• the treatment of the disease

• the symptoms of the disease

• how the disease is transmitted

Which has had the greatest impact on preventing epidemics in the twenty-first century?

• immunizations

• new medicines

• good hygiene

Which best describes treatments for viral epidemics and viral pandemics?

• Both are easily treated using a combination of vaccination and antibiotics

• Epidemics are treated with vaccinations, while pandemics are treated with antibiotics

• Epidemics are treated with antibiotics, while pandemics are treated with vaccinations

• Neither is easily treated because viral infections are easier to prevent than they are to treat

Which situation would most favor the spread of infectious disease?

• overcrowding

• use of vaccines

• small population

The Black Plague killed about 100 million people in the fourteenth century. The bacteria that caused the plague was carried by fleas on rats and traveled great distances. Which would have most directly limited the spread of the disease?

• cleaner water sources

• refrigeration of food and water

• reduction in the rodent population

• better medicines to treat infected individuals

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Which term is used to describe a disease that has spread across multiple countries or continents?

• endemic

• pandemic

• outbreak

• epidemic