Deck 13: Communicable Diseases

Question 1

Communicable diseases are:

A) Diseases that can spread from person to person
B) Diseases that can spread from people to animals
C) Diseases that can spread from people to people, animals to people, animals to animals, or people to animals
D) Diseases that can spread from animals to people

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The eradication of disease refers to:

A) The end of an epidemic
B) The disease no longer being present in a specific place
C) There no longer being cases or transmission of the disease in the world
D) Stopping an emerging disease

Answer 2

C

Question 3

An example of a reemerging infectious disease would be:

A) Ebola in West Africa in 2015
B) The first appearance of toxic shock syndrome in the US
C) Legionnaire's disease in Philadelphia in the US
D) All of these are correct

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Diseases treated through mass chemotherapy include:

A) Schistosomiasis
B) Hookworm
C) Pneumonia
D) Both Schistosomiasis and Hookworm

Question 5

Drug resistance refers to:

A) The ability of a bacteria, virus, or parasite to mutate
B) The development by a bacteria, virus, or parasite of the ability to resist drug treatment
C) The development by a bacteria, virus or parasite to not be vaccine preventable
D) All of these are correct

Question 6

The burden of communicable diseases is highest in which region:

A) Sub-Saharan Africa
B) South Asia
C) The Middle East and North Africa
D) Latin America and the Caribbean

Question 7

A reemerging infectious disease is a disease that:

A) Appears for the first time
B) Appears in a new form or place
C) Mutates
D) All of these are correct

Question 8

Some of the pressures leading to the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases include:

A) People living in close proximity with animals, destruction of animal habitat
B) International travel, breakdown of public health measures
C) Misuse of antibiotics
D) All of these are correct

Question 9

One Health can best be described as an approach that focuses on:

A) People to people interaction
B) A multidisciplinary approach that takes account of the interaction between people, animals, and the environment
C) Animal and people interaction
D) Zooneses

Question 10

The economic costs of outbreaks of disease such as Mad Cow or Ebola appear to vary most with:

A) How many people get sick from the disease
B) How many people die of the disease
C) How many people get disabled by the disease
D) People's perceptions of the risks that the disease might spread

Question 11

The elimination of diseases refers to:

A) The disease no longer being present in a specific place
B) The end of an epidemic
C) There no longer being any cases or transmission in the world
D) The curtailing of reemergence of a disease

Question 12

An example of an emerging infectious disease would be:

A) The resurgence of syphilis in 2018
B) HIV in the 1980s
C) The outbreak of measles in the US in 2019
D) All of these are correct

Question 13

Vaccine preventable diseases include:

A) Pertussis, measles, tetanus
B) Pertussis, diphtheria, hookworm
C) Tetanus, schistosomiasis, measles
D) Hookworm, measles

Question 14

Three of the five leading causes of death from communicable diseases globally are:

A) Measles, rubella, tetanus
B) Measles, diphtheria, malaria
C) Lower respiratory infections, TB, HIV
D) Measles, TB

Question 15

How does the burden of communicable diseases vary as country incomes go up:

A) Communicable diseases go up
B) Communicable diseases go down
C) Communicable diseases stay about the same
D) The burden of communicable diseases varies widely

Question 16

Some of the pressures leading to the development of resistant strains of bacteria include:

A) Overuse of antibiotics
B) Counterfeit drugs, Poor prescribing practices
C) Poor patient compliance with taking prescribed drugs
D) All of these are correct

Question 17

Zoonoses refers to:

A) The spread of infection from people to animals
B) The spread of infection from animals to people
C) The spread of infection from animals to people and back again to animals
D) Both The spread of infection from people to animals and the spread of infection from animals to people

Question 18

Diseases to which resistance is a significant issue include

A) TB
B) Malaria
C) Gonorrhea
D) All of these are correct

Question 19

What are the relative costs of treating a drug susceptible form of disease, compared to treating a resistant strain of the same disease?

A) They are lower
B) They are higher
C) They are about the same
D) There is no pattern

Question 20

Addressing malaria requires, among other things:

A) People sleeping under bed-nets, indoor residual spraying
B) Intermittent treatment of pregnant women and infants, early confirmed diagnosis and treatment
C) Vaccination
D) People sleeping under bed-nets, indoor residual spraying, intermittent treatment of pregnant women and infants and early confirmed diagnosis and treatment