Which one of the following factors affecting emergence of infectious disease would be most applicable to the emergence of Measles virus in Syria in the last decade?Question 9Answera.Changes in demographics and behaviourb.Environmental change and land usec.Microbial adaptation and changed.Changes in technology and industrye.Breakdown of public health measures

Which one of the following major factors affecting emergence of infectious disease would be most applicable to the emergence of Nipah virus in Malaysia?Question 8Answera.Changes in technology and industryb.Breakdown of public health measuresc.Changes in demographics and behaviourd.Microbial adaptation and changee.Environmental change and land use

Development of emerging infectious disease can be a result of all of the following EXCEPTQuestion 10Answera.use of genetically modified foods.b.microbial mutation.c.modern transportation.d.changes in the environment.

Which of the following factors is/are helping increase the incidence of emerging diseases?Check All That Applyglobal warmingglobal warmingexpansion of range by insect vectorsexpansion of range by insect vectorsoveruse of antibioticsoveruse of antibioticsdevelopment of community vaccination programs

Which of the following situations is characteristic of an epidemic?Multiple ChoiceA viral infection has spread from Central America to North America.Millions of people around the world have contracted the same strain of a virus.Three students from a local grade school are all diagnosed with a bacterial infection that has never been identified before.Normally there are one or two cases of measles per month in a particular city. In the month of September, there were 15 cases of measles.

(2) With examples differentiate between emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (10 marks)