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Question
1. What is the difference between morbidity and mortality?
2. What is the difference between prevalence and incidence?
3. How would sporadic disease be different than epidemic disease?
4. When does an epidemic become a pandemic?
5. Why is it often difficult to determine the etiologic agent of a disease?
6 What does it mean to say that a disease is spread from a point source?
7. What is the difference between intermittent common-source spread and propagated spread of disease?
8. Why can't observational studies show causal relationships?
9. Why are experimental studies best conducted as double-blind?
10. What is the difference between a passive, active, and asymptomatic carrier?
11. What is the term for when a mother passes a pathogen to their child during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding?
12. Describe droplet transmission vs airborne transmission.
13. Describe some objects that might be used as indirect contact transmission.
14. What is the difference between mechanical and biological vectors?
15. What makes a disease an emerging infectious disease?