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UPSC CMS Epidemiology and Transmission — practice questions

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The study of the causes of disease is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Every epidemiological analysis is carried out with reference to a:Read the answer and worked solution →The state of being diseased is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The number of people with an illness at one point in time is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The number of new cases appearing over a period is the:Read the answer and worked solution →A disease constantly present at a low level in one region is:Read the answer and worked solution →Malaria is described as endemic to some regions of:Read the answer and worked solution →More cases than expected appearing quickly in a region makes a disease:Read the answer and worked solution →An epidemic that spreads worldwide is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →The first scientist to demonstrate the causative agent of anthrax was:Read the answer and worked solution →Koch set out how many criteria for linking a microbe to a disease?Read the answer and worked solution →Diseases that every case must be reported to the CDC are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The father of epidemiology, who traced the 1854 London cholera outbreak, was:Read the answer and worked solution →Snow proposed that cholera spread by which route?Read the answer and worked solution →Snow noticed one group escaped cholera because they drank beer instead of water. They were:Read the answer and worked solution →Acting on Snow's advice, officials contained the outbreak by removing the pump's:Read the answer and worked solution →Places where pathogens normally reside between outbreaks are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Soil and water in the environment are examples of which kind of reservoir?Read the answer and worked solution →An infected person with no signs or symptoms who can still spread disease is an:Read the answer and worked solution →Diseases passed to people from animal reservoirs are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the epidemiology termsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the spread wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the outbreak gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the public health wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Existing cases or new casesRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the outbreak ideasRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Epidemiology bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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The study of the causes of disease is called:

  1. Etiology
  2. Ethnology
  3. Etymology
  4. Ecology
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Correct answer: A. Etiology

1. The focus is what brings disease about. 2. It sits inside epidemiology. 3. That study is etiology. _Source: OpenStax Microbiology, Chapter 16, Disease and Epidemiology._

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Every epidemiological analysis is carried out with reference to a:

  1. Proposition
  2. Population
  3. Publication
  4. Prescription
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Correct answer: B. Population

1. Numbers alone mean little. 2. They must be set against a group at risk. 3. That group is the population. _Source: OpenStax Microbiology, Chapter 16, Disease and Epidemiology._

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The state of being diseased is called:

  1. Morbidity
  2. Mortality
  3. Modality
  4. Mobility
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Correct answer: A. Morbidity

1. It is about illness, not death. 2. It counts those who are sick. 3. That state is morbidity. _Source: OpenStax Microbiology, Chapter 16, Disease and Epidemiology._

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