MCQ IN MEDICINE

Detailed explanation-1: -A common method for reducing the likelihood of disease spread is through quarantine, which involves separating an individual who may have come into contact with the infectious agent from other people.

Detailed explanation-2: -Let’s start with basic definitions: 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ideally, disease outbreaks should be detected early, effective vaccines should be readily available, and people at risk should be vaccinated promptly.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza are some of the most brutal killers in human history. And outbreaks of these diseases across international borders, are properly defined as pandemic, especially smallpox, which throughout history, has killed between 300-500 million people in its 12, 000 year existence.