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Diseases & Infections practice questions

Water-, food-, air-, vector-, soil-borne and zoonotic diseases and their causative agents.

26 questions in this topic: 9 recall, 10 applying skills and concepts, 3 strategic thinking and 4 extended thinking. Every one carries a written explanation.

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  1. Question 1Skills & concepts

    Onchocerciasis (river blindness) is caused by Onchocerca volvulus, transmitted through the bite of the

    • ablackfly
    • btsetse fly
    • chousefly
    • dbedbug
  2. Question 2Recall

    Which disease is transmitted through the bite of an infected tick?

    • aLyme disease
    • bCOVID-19
    • cCholera
    • dCommon cold
  3. Question 3Strategic thinking

    A patient has fever, difficulty breathing, headache and loss of sense of smell, and reports close contact with a recently infected person. Which category of disease control measures (wearing a nose mask, physical distancing, hand hygiene) would most directly reduce transmission, and why?

    • aAir-borne disease control measures, since the symptoms and transmission (droplets/close contact) match an air-borne pathogen like SARS-CoV-2
    • bSoil-borne disease control measures, since soil is the main transmission route here
    • cWater-borne disease control measures only
    • dNo control measures would help in this case
  4. Question 4Recall

    Whooping cough (pertussis) is caused by which bacterium?

    • aBordetella pertussis
    • bSalmonella typhi
    • cStreptococcus pneumoniae
    • dMycobacterium tuberculosis
  5. Question 5Recall

    What is the causative organism of cholera?

    • aSalmonella typhi
    • bVibrio cholerae
    • cMycobacterium tuberculosis
    • dInfluenza A virus

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