NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
MICROBIOLOGY
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Question
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Which of these is best described as a pandemic?
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A student catches the flu from her younger brother.
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Three members of a soccer team come down with the flu.
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Dozens of people in two neighboring towns have flu at the same time.
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Tens of millions of people worldwide are infected with flu in the same year.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Three worldwide (pandemic) outbreaks of influenza occurred in the 20th century: in 1918, 1957, and 1968. The latter 2 were in the era of modern virology and most thoroughly characterized. All 3 have been informally identified by their presumed sites of origin as Spanish, Asian, and Hong Kong influenza, respectively.
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