DISEASE INVESTIGATIONS

1. What is an outbreak?

A) A grouping of cases in a given area over a particular period of time without regard to whether the number of cases is more than expected

B) An increase in the number of cases of disease more than expected in a given area or among a specific group of people over a particular period of time

C) A break in the infectious disease chain

D) None of the above

2. A cluster refers to?

A) A grouping of cases in a given area over a particular period of time without regard to whether the number of cases is more than expected

B) A single case of hepatitis

C) An increase in the number of cases of disease more than expected in a given area or among a specific group of people over a particular period of time

D) None of the above

3. What is a surge capacity worker?

A) Someone that works with electric circuits

B) An employee that has received training and can work in an area they do not routinely work in

C) Someone that works overtime

D) None of the above

4. As a surge capacity worker in the County you may be asked to interview a case to obtain important clinical information, what is some of the information you will need to get?

A) Their insurance information

B) Name and political affiliation

C) Their demographical information, date of symptom onset, individuals they have been in close contact with since becoming symptomatic, etc

D) None of the above

5. In the illustration of “Chain of Infectious Disease” what is a vector?

A) A carrier, usually an insect or animal that transmits organisms causing disease from an infected individual to a non-infected individual

B) Disease

C) Another name for a human host

D) None of the above

6. Name one method used to prevent the spread of a disease by a vector?

A) Destroy the breeding sites by spraying insecticide

B) Vectors do not cause disease

C) All of the above

D) None of the above

7. What information do you need to have in order to develop a theory?

A) The causative agent, the mode of transmission and the exposure that caused the disease

B) Patient demographic information, the mode of transmission, and exposure that caused the disease

C) None of the above

D) All of the above

8. How can you reduce the susceptibility of a person to disease?

A) The use of medications

B) Immunization

C) Both a and b

D) None of the above

9. What do you do when you isolate symptomatic individuals?

A) You give them pain medication

B) You separate the infected individuals from the non-infected in a separate area to prevent transmission or spread of a disease.

C) Both a and b

D) None of the above

10. Epidemiology is the study of?

A) Is the study of the distribution and determinants of disease risk in human populations

B) A group whose members have been exposed to a supposed cause of disease

C) The cause or origin of a disease

D) None of the above

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