Epidemic and Pandemic

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 antibiotic was developed from a fungus and has been used to cure many illnesses that could have led to epidemics?

• aspirin

• ethanol

• penicillin

• acetaminophen

On Monday, Kari exhibits no symptoms of a viral illness. She is sick on Tuesday and stays home 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.

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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.

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Which would most likely prevent a cold virus from spreading through a classroom?

• Have a large supply of tissues on the teacher's desk.

• Have all students wash their hands regularly with soap.

• Have all students shake hands regularly with all students.

• Have all students wipe desk with dry paper towel as end of class.

Which best distinguishes an infectious disease from a noninfectious disease?

• Infectious diseases can be cured with antibiotics; noninfectious diseases cannot.

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

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

• Infectious diseases cannot be transmitted from one organism to another; noninfectious diseases can.

What is a Pandemic???

• An attempt to explain a pattern observed repeatedly in the natural world.

• A rule that describes a pattern in nature.

• when a particular virus or disease begins to spread beyond the initial “infectious” area from country to country

• A rapid spread of a disease or virus through out a smaller population of people or region

What is a epidemic???

• A rapid spread of a disease or virus through out a smaller population of people or region.

• When a particular virus or disease begins to spread beyond the initial “infectious” area from country to country

• A way of learning more about the naturalization of the World and what else is of its natural state.

• An attempt to explain a pattern observed repeatedly in the natural world.

In Taiwan how many cases of the Corona Virus was found

• 400

• 7

• 451

• 461

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

• antibiotic

• epidemic

• pandemic

• parasitic