What is major difference between an endemic disease and an epidemic?

Q: Is potential fatality a characteristic of a pandemic?

A: A pandemic is a situation where the epidemic disease outbreaks globally, crossing international…

Q: How can particles so small, simple, and seemingly insignificant be capable of causing disease and…

A: Viruses are the smallest of all the microbes.  They are unique because they are only alive and able…

Q: What are infectious diseases and means of transmission?

A: Introduction: Infectious illnesses are those that are caused by organisms such as bacteria, viruses,…

Q: Distinguish among an outbreak, an epidemic, and a pandemic.

A: Epidemiology is the study of disease and various factors associated with it like it's spread, the…

Q: what are the characteristics of a pandemic

A: Ans: The epidemic which occurs worldwide or in a very wide ares which also includes the…

Q: What are opportunistic pathogens, facultative parasite and obligate parasites

A: Parasitism- It is a food relationship between organisms of two different species in which the…

Q: Why are infectious diseases more common in developing nations than in the United States today?

A: According to the data provided by the World Health Organization, there is a lower level of mortality…

Q: How does group size affect disease transmission?

A: If the group size is large then diseases transmission rate will be higher .

Q: Differentiate between the terms, epidemic, pandemic, endemic, and sporadic diseases.

A: Epidemic or Pestilence: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) portrays a scourge as a…

Q: Which of the Social Determinants of Health has the pandemic impacted most

A: The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, as well as their age comprises the social…

Q: Describe the factors within a population that may make it more susceptible to infectious disease.

A: Disease is made up of two words "dis" and "ease". Dis means absence and ease means comfort.…

Q: What is parasitism and its types?

A: Symbiosis : Symbiosis in an interaction between non identical biological species. This interaction…

Q: What is the difference between an endemic dis- ease and an epidemic?

A: Based on the prevelance of a particular disease we can classify them in different terms .

Q: Distinguish between an endemic disease, an epidemic disease,and a pandemic disease.

A: The endemic, epidemic, and pandemic disease terms describe the extent of disease spread or…

Q: Define the following terms and give one example for each: (a) Commensalism (b) Parasitism (c)…

A: Commensalism- it is a relationship between individuals of two species in which one species obtains…

Q: What is the difference between a disease vehicle and a diseasevector?

A: A disease vector is any agent that carries and and helps in transmitting an infectious pathogen into…

Q: How are infectious diseases different from other diseases?

A: A disease can be defined as a specific abnormal condition that adversely affects the functions or…

Q: List three factors that contribute to the emergence of infectious diseases.

A: The term "chain of infection" refers to the order in which the infection spreads. It starts with the…

Q: Why are diseases with long incubation periods more likely to result in an epidemic?

A: Incubation period is the time gap between exposure to a pathogen and onset of symptoms of a diseases…

Q: Discuss the three major types of epidemics, and identify the epidemic curve associated with each.

A: The common thread of a disease is its transmission from one organism to another. The spread of a…

Q: Trace the course of a disease in the accompanying graph.Identify stages (a) through (f), and relate…

A: INFECTION:- Disease-causing pathogens invade the host tissue, multiply inside the body. The…

Q: Explain what an emerging disease is and give an example.

A: Disease :The disease is the condition of an organism when normal functions or structures of the…

Q: Why might a disease be endemic in one region, but not in another?

A: The condition of complete well-being of social, physical, and mental condition is termed as health.…

Q: How is the timing of a propagated epidemic related to the incubation period of the pathogen?

A: Epidemic refers to the widespread occurrence of a disease to a large number of people in a…

Q: What is the nature of infectious disease?

A: Pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria , viruses , parasites or fungi, cause infectious…

Q: Describe the two most important public health measures that can be put in place to prevent a cholera…

A: Introduction :- The intestines become infected with the Vibrio cholerae bacteria, which results in…

Q: What are some examples of parasitism?

A: Parasitism is a relationship between two living organisms of different species in which one…

Q: What is a zoonotic disease? A disease reservoir?

A: Disease transmission indicates the mode of how the diseases spread from one another.

Q: What are the similarities and differenes in a pandemic and an endemic?

A: Answer: PANDEMIC is the disease outbreak which can affects an large populations and different…

Q: What is the difference between a common source and a propagated source epidemic outbreak? Which…

A: Epidemiology is the method of investigation of cause of disease, its source, sign and symptoms.etc.…

Q: An epidemic may be detected by observing

A: Endemic is used to describe diseases that spreads rapidly to a large number of people of a given…

Q: Reveal the weakest link in the chain of infection

A: BASIC INFORMATION  INFECTIOUS AGENTS  It is pathogens or the microorganisms which are responsible…

Q: Describe the conditions that favors epidemic.

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Q: Which are the two most popular epidemiological occurrences in society; pandemics, endemics or…

A: Infectious diseases, which are transmitted by bacterial or viral agents, are widespread in culture.…

Q: Which combination of factors would most likely result in the spread of an infection through the…

A: The question can be explained based on the following fact. Beta ratio, i.e. infection rate should be…

Q: In agriculture, what are the six steps involved in the disease cycle? Describe what occurs at each…

A: The series of events from the development of disease, which also includes stages of developmet of…

Q: In comparison to pandemics, which make it difficult to estimate the number of individuals infected…

A: the pandemic disease is developed over a vast area and can spread among several countries. The…

Q: What factors are important in the emergence or reemergenceof potential pathogens?

A: Answer: Introduction: Many factors contribute to the emergence and re-emergence of infectious…

Q: Which is a method of transmitting pathogens from one host to another by carrying microorganisms…

A: Transmission can occur regardless of the reservoir, allowing an infection to spread. First,…

Q: What are some countries doing to prevent the spread of malaria?

A: The WHO developed policy recommendations to prevent and treat malaria. With regard to malaria…

Q: In what ways are pandemic and endemic different?  In what ways are endemic and pandemic similar/…

A: The disease spreading phenomena can be illustrated in two ways, One is a pandemic and another is an…

Q: List three viral and three bacterial human diseases and give ONE fact about each.

A: Many human illnesses are caused by infection with either bacteria or viruses. Most bacterial…

Q: What factors determine the outcome of most host-pathogen relationships?

A: On a cellular, molecular, organismal, or population level, the host-pathogen interaction is…

Q: Differentiate among the patterns of disease outbreaks accordingto frequency, number, and location.

A: Epidemiology is the study of disease transmission is the examination and investigation of the…

Q: What are the three things required for an infection to occur? Give an example of each.

A: Under favorable circumstances, pathogenic organisms can gain access into body systems to cause a…

Q: What factors might diminish the ability of a host tofight off an infectious disease?

A: An infection is the attack of a living being's body tissues by ailment causing agents, their…

Q: Define the parasitism.

A: Symbiotic relationships: Symbiosis is a type of close and long term relationship between two…

Q: Why might pathogens that have recently shifted hosts be more likely to cause pandemics?

A: Pathogens are a group of disease-causing organisms (virus, bacteria, or protozoans) that disturb the…

Q: what is the difference in lifespan of an endemic and a pandemic

A: A pandemic is defined as an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing…