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When a new disease outbreak is reported what steps might be taken to prevent the spread of a new disease?
Anyone who may be infected would be on quarantine to prevent anyone from catching that disease. Anyone who was in contact of a sick person will be on isolation, even if he/she hasn't caught the disease in case she/he maybe carrying the disease. Try to stay away from sick people and stay away from people who was in contact with that person.
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In the Roosevelt likened the spread of aggression to the spread of disease?
Quarantine Speech (:
Experts predict that a future disease outbreak will spread?
rapidly
How did people attempt to keep the plague from spreading during the outbreak?
During the plague outbreak, people attempted to prevent the spread of the disease by isolating the sick, implementing quarantine measures, practicing good hygiene, and avoiding contact with infected individuals.
How can scientific knowledge impact a decision about treating a disease outbreak?
Scientific knowledge about a disease can include information about how the disease is spread (ie. fleas, rats, by contact), statistics of areas where it might increase, and treatment options. Soft sciences that include psychology might help in getting people vaccinated or convincing them to stay home in quarantine to prevent the spread of disease. The recent Ebola outbreak is a good resource for seeing how the UN and local communities handled the large areas that were involved.
A sudden outbreak of disease that has spread over an entire country is called?
An epidemic is defined as spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time.
Which will spread faster malaria or sickle-cell?
Malaria is spread by Mosquitos & Sickle cell is an inherited disease so it would be easier to have an outbreak Malaria.
Why do we study Epidemiology?
To better understand how and why a disease spread, and how to prevent further spread of the disease or diseases like it.
How can you prevent the spread of a disease caused by personal factor?
we can prevent this with keeping our body healthy.
What term is used to describe a wide spread outbreak of disease?
Epidemic. If it is world-wide, then it is called a pandemic.
The most effective way to prevent the spread of disease is?
Washing your hands.
What suggestion can you give to prevent outbreaks of infectious disease?
Kill anything that could be host to the disease. Without hosts, the disease will not spread.
Which is a distinction between an epidemic and pandemic?
An epidemic is the widespread occurrence of a disease within a specific community, population, or region. A pandemic, on the other hand, is a global outbreak of a disease that spreads across multiple countries and continents. The key difference is the scale and geographic spread of the outbreak.
