NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
MICROBIOLOGY
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A widespread disease
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A short lived disease
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A type of flu
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A cooking tool
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Detailed explanation-1: -A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease. Viral respiratory diseases, such as those caused by a new influenza virus or the coronavirus COVID-19, are the most likely to turn into a pandemic. A pandemic is not the same as an epidemic.
Detailed explanation-2: -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: -A pandemic virus is an outbreak of a new virus to which people have no immunity and for which there is no vaccine, occurring on multiple continents at the same time.
Detailed explanation-4: -An outbreak can be declared an epidemic when the disease spreads rapidly to many people.