Deck 5: Investigating Infectious Disease Out Breaks

Question 1

The English word outbreak was first used in a medical context in what decade?

A) The 1820s
B) The 1830s
C) The 1840s
D) The 1850s
E) The 1860s

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Epidemics, like outbreaks, involve a sudden spike in cases that exceeds the expected number.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

An outbreak is often more localized in scope than an epidemic or pandemic.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What does NNDSS stands for?

Question 5

Reportable diseases require optional reporting to state and territorial health officials once they are identified by a healthcare provider, hospital, or laboratory.

Question 6

Reporting of notifiable diseases by state and territorial officials is mandatory not voluntary.

Question 7

Case definitions typically begin in very broad terms.

Question 8

What type of study design is particularly useful in infectious disease outbreaks?

A) Case study
B) Case-control study
C) Cohort study
D) RCT
E) All are equally useful

Question 9

An example of a closed-ended question might be, "Do you remember eating at the Road Kill Café on Tuesday night?"

Question 10

Point-source outbreaks do not involve a specific place and time or a common source.

Question 11

If there are minimal secondary cases, a point-source outbreak often subsides quickly.

Question 12

This is an example of what type of outbreak curve?

Question 13

This is an example of what type of curve?

Question 14

Which of the following is not an example of methods that labs use to identify infectious disease pathogens?

A) Pulse field gel electrophoresis (PFGE)
B) Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
C) Nucleic acid analysis (NAA)
D) Plasmid analysis (PA)
E) All are laboratory methods used to identify infectious disease pathogens.