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MIC 130 Exam #2 Questions and Answers Updated 2024 Graded A
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High Income - >12.6 thousand per person per year 
 
Low Income - <1 thousand per person per year 
 
Extreme Poverty - <$1.90 per person per day 
 
Poverty line in the US - $25,000 per family of 4 per year 
 
Is development linked to better health outcomes? - Yes 
 
What is the link between infectious disease burden and economic wealth? Exception? - USUALLY higher per capita GDP and higher life expectancy 
 
Exception: 19th century England 
- : Industrialization led to steady economic gr...
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MIC 130 Exam #1 Questions and Answers 2024 Graded A
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What is infectious disease surveillance? - Ongoing collection, analysis, and interpretation of infectious disease-related data coordinated with the timely dissemination of data to those responsible for preventing and controlling the data. 
 
Why do surveillance for infectious disease? - - detecting outbreaks 
- helps evaluate effectiveness of control measures 
 
What is involved for infectious disease surveillance? - - the patient 
- physician 
- hospital/clinic 
- county health department 
- st...
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MIC 130 Final Exam Study Questions and Answers with Complete Solutions Graded A 2024
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Bio warfare - intentional use of disease causing organisms or products of organisms to harm populations to attain military a objective 
 
bioterorism - intentional use of disease causing agents or products of organisms to harm humans, other animals, or plants in order to cause civil unrest and panic or to commit a crime 
 
Advantages of biological weapons - -Readily available "easy to grow" -inexpensive -highly transportable -not easy detected -Tasteless, odorless, invisible -Suicide "infecto...
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MIC 130 Exam #1 Study Questions and Answers Top Rated 2024 Graded A
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What causes smallpox and how transmitted? - Cause: a virus 
Transmitted by: aerosol, contact with contaminated material 
 
How did smallpox come to the New World? - Christopher Columbus' second journey (1492), could have came with slaves 
 
Smallpox in the Americas prior to 1775 - How prevalent? - numerous smallpox epidemics, depopulated North America 
 
Where was inoculation done in the Americas? - Was outlawed in some colonies, was okay in middle colonies. Many military men were inoculated. D...
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MIC 130 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TOP GRADED 2024
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Germ Theory of Disease - idea that infectious diseases are caused by pathogens 
 
Early ideas about disease transmission - punishment for sins, miasma, hexes/spells, spontaneous generation 
 
miasma - a highly unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor 
 
Louis Pasteur - A French chemist, this man discovered that heat could kill bacteria that otherwise spoiled liquids including milk, wine, and beer. 
-disproved spontaneous generation 
-vaccines for rabies and anthrax 
 
Robert Koch - country doctor ...
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