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Re: Disease Detectives B/C

Posted: April 17th, 2015, 3:37 pm
by sciolyboy123
This is a pretty easy one but here goes...

Which pathogen can't reproduce outside of a host?

Re: Disease Detectives B/C

Posted: April 17th, 2015, 4:39 pm
by UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F
sciolyboy123 wrote:This is a pretty easy one but here goes...

Which pathogen can't reproduce outside of a host?
Virus/Viroid/Prion

Re: Disease Detectives B/C

Posted: April 17th, 2015, 4:55 pm
by sciolyboy123
UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:
sciolyboy123 wrote:This is a pretty easy one but here goes...

Which pathogen can't reproduce outside of a host?
Virus/Viroid/Prion

You are correct! YOUR TURN!

Re: Disease Detectives B/C

Posted: April 17th, 2015, 4:56 pm
by UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F
What are nosocomial infections?

Re: Disease Detectives B/C

Posted: April 18th, 2015, 4:16 pm
by sciolyboy123
Infections that are acquired while at a hospital.

Re: Disease Detectives B/C

Posted: April 18th, 2015, 4:18 pm
by UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F
sciolyboy123 wrote:Infections that are acquired while at a hospital.
Correct, your turn!

Re: Disease Detectives B/C

Posted: April 18th, 2015, 4:29 pm
by 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)

Re: Disease Detectives B/C

Posted: April 18th, 2015, 6:24 pm
by UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F
sciolyboy123 wrote: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)
Primary prevention (not bothering to look at my paper with ink on it)

Re: Disease Detectives B/C

Posted: April 18th, 2015, 6:25 pm
by sciolyboy123
UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:
sciolyboy123 wrote: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)
Primary prevention (not bothering to look at my paper with ink on it)
Actually its second, but you may go ahead anyways.

Re: Disease Detectives B/C

Posted: April 18th, 2015, 6:27 pm
by UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F
sciolyboy123 wrote:
UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:
sciolyboy123 wrote: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)
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. :lol:
Here's the question:
What three things do epidemiologists use to characterize an outbreak?