Disease Detectives B/C

[sciolyboy123]

This is a pretty easy one but here goes...

Which pathogen can't reproduce outside of a host?

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This is a pretty easy one but here goes...

Which pathogen can't reproduce outside of a host?

Just made it more complicated ;) (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Virus/Viroid/Prion

[sciolyboy123]

This is a pretty easy one but here goes...

Which pathogen can't reproduce outside of a host?

Just made it more complicated ;) (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Virus/Viroid/Prion

You are correct! YOUR TURN!

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What are nosocomial infections?

[sciolyboy123]

Infections that are acquired while at a hospital.

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Infections that are acquired while at a hospital.

Correct, your turn!

[sciolyboy123]

Screening passengers before departing an airplane is what type of disease prevention? (This has been recently in the past year involving the whole Ebola thing)

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Screening passengers before departing an airplane is what type of disease prevention? (This has been recently in the past year involving the whole Ebola thing)

Answer (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Primary prevention (not bothering to look at my paper with ink on it)

[sciolyboy123]

Screening passengers before departing an airplane is what type of disease prevention? (This has been recently in the past year involving the whole Ebola thing)

Answer (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Primary prevention (not bothering to look at my paper with ink on it)

Actually its second, but you may go ahead anyways.

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Screening passengers before departing an airplane is what type of disease prevention? (This has been recently in the past year involving the whole Ebola thing)

Answer (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Primary prevention (not bothering to look at my paper with ink on it)

Actually its second, but you may go ahead anyways.

Oh yeah! Well, it's on my "PWIOI," so I'm prepared.
Here's the question:
What three things do epidemiologists use to characterize an outbreak?