MEDICINE MCQ
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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Epidemic, because it happened within a relatively short time span.
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Epidemic, because it affected many individuals in multiple countries.
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Pandemic, because it happened within a relatively short time span.
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Pandemic, because it affected many individuals in multiple countries.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Spanish flu was a pandemic-a new influenza A virus that spread easily and infected people throughout the world. Because the virus was new, very few people, if any, had some immunity to the disease. From 1918 to 1919, the Spanish flu infected an estimated 500 million people globally.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 1918 H1N1 flu pandemic, sometimes referred to as the “Spanish flu, ‘’ killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, including an estimated 675, 000 people in the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -The United States lost 675, 000 people to the Spanish flu in 1918-more casualties than World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined. Pharmaceutical companies worked around the clock to come up with a vaccine to fight the Spanish flu, but they were too late.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675, 000 occurring in the United States.