Disease Invesigations

What is an outbreak?

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

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

A break in the infectious disease chain

None of the above

A cluster refers to?

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

A single case of hepatitis

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

None of the above

What is a surge capacity worker?

Someone that works with electric circuits

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

Someone that works overtime

None of the above

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?

Their insurance information

Name and political affiliation

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

None of the above

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

Destroy the breeding sites by spraying insecticide

Vectors do not cause disease

All of the above

None of the above

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

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

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

None of the above

All of the above

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

The use of medications

Immunization

Both a and b

None of the above

What do you do when you isolate symptomatic individuals?

You give them pain medication

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

Both a and b

None of the above

Epidemiology is the study of?

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

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

The cause or origin of a disease

None of the above

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