Quiz
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1. One of these sentences describes an epidemic. Which is it?
A slow increase in the number of people suffering from an illness
A rapid increase in the number of people with an infectious diesease
A rapid increase in the number of people with an illness
2. Select true or false. Which of these are infectious diseases?
3. Which one of the following diseases does not involve the role of a vector?
Malaria
Bubonic plague
Tuberculosis (TB)
4. What is a susceptible population?
A group of people who are not yet infected but who may be infected by a disease
People who have died from a disease
Unhealthy people
5. What is the case fatality rate?
The proportion of susceptibles
The same as the death rate
The proportion of those who catch a disease who die from that disease
6. Which of these are examples of pandemics? There are more than one, click all that apply then click submit.
Plague in 1349
Influenza in 1918
HIV/AIDS in the 1990s
7. Which of these is an example of a public health measure?
Immunization
Speed cameras
Abortion
