Science 24 Chapter 10 (LK): Society's Response to Disease

Question 1

The disease that was a epidemic from 1500-1700?

Accepted Answer

Tuberculosis

Question 2

What increases people's ability to fight off a disease?

Accepted Answer

vaccinations

Question 3

Bubonic plague was caused by?

Accepted Answer

fleas on rats

Question 4

Why did interest in public health begin to develop?

Accepted Answer

connections between sanitation and disease were found

Question 5

Which are examples of health authority warnings?

Accepted Answer

road safety, boil water advisories, mass vaccinations, food recalls

Question 6

A lung disease that killed many Aboriginal people in North America?

Accepted Answer

tuberculosis

Question 7

What factors in our lifestyle today could cause disease to spread?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 8

Health authorities use which of the following to promote food safety awareness?

Accepted Answer

pamphlets and brochures, radio, newspaper, internet

Question 9

Diseases that affect large proportion of the population in many countries?

Accepted Answer

pandemics

Question 10

Epidemics are contagious

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

What is the purpose of quarantine?

Accepted Answer

isolate the sick

Question 12

A disease that affects many people in a local area?

Accepted Answer

epidemic

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