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MEDICINE MCQ

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Dominic is struggling to remember the distinction between an epidemic and pandemic. “I though these terms were interchangeable but ever since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak it seems they are different."Explain the difference between these terms.
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pandemic:a quick spread of a disease; epidemic:an undetectable, asymptomatic disease spread
B
epidemic:a cured disease; pandemic:an unconfined disease
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epidemic:a regional outbreak of a disease; pandemic:a world wide epidemic
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -AN EPIDEMIC is a disease that affects a large number of people within a community, population, or region. A PANDEMIC is an epidemic that’s spread over multiple countries or continents. ENDEMIC is something that belongs to a particular people or country.

Detailed explanation-2: -A disease outbreak is endemic when it is consistently present but limited to a particular region. This makes the disease spread and rates predictable. Malaria, for example, is considered endemic in certain countries and regions.

Detailed explanation-3: -A propagated outbreak results from transmission from one person to another. Usually, transmission is by direct person-to-person contact, as with syphilis.

Detailed explanation-4: -An epidemic refers to an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of an infectious disease above what is normally expected in a given population in a specific area. Examples of major epidemics include cholera and diarrhoeal diseases, measles, malaria, and dengue fever.

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