2023 Quiz #1- HOW A PANDEMIC SPREADS

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1. Thanks to international jet travel we can be anywhere in the world within days. *

True

False

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2. In prehistoric times, two reasons that infections did not spread very well were............. *

As nomads, the population was never in one place for long.

Fire had not been discovered as yet.

Our communities were very small and hard for viruses to spread.

No internet to send the viruses to their enemies.

3. Today what allows us to detect new diseases quickly? *

Cel phones

Science

Internet

Text messaging

4. What do the Greek words Epipandemos mean in English? *

On all people

On a few people

On teachers only

5. During the 1918-1919 Pandemic how many people died in the World? *

675 thousand people

No statistics were available a 100 years ago

50 million people

2 million people

6. During the SARS outbreak in 2002 there was a problem with the way information was being shared. What was the issue? *

Conspiracy theories that were unfounded were spread by bloggers adding to public hysteria.

There were very few masks available for the travelling public.

The media ignored the problem thus allowing word of mouth to be the major information channel.

7. Although pandemics can start small the impact can be as dramatic as what? *

Mothers cooking

War

Baby sitting kids in diapers

Natural disaster

8. What does the word "mitigate" mean? *

to alleviate

to make less severe

to ease

to mollify

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