What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic? What are the signs and symptoms of influenza infection? Explain how bubonic plague can develop into the communicable pneumonic plague. Explain why the Ebola virus, which is highly virulent, is less common than the flu viru...
What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic? Describe how treatment of an infection with ampicillin could lead to the emergence of vancomycin-resistant strains of bacteria. What is a pathogen? What is a disease? How are they different? What does it mean for a bacterium to be ...
In the United States, people are pretty lonely, and the pandemic worsened the"loneliness epidemic."People havefewer close friendsnow than they did decades ago. At the same time, Pennington said, there's an innate human need to belong and thus a need for connection, and when we don't have...
What are the characteristics that distinguish pandemic disease from epidemic disease? Name some examples of notorious pandemics that occurred in history. Why did the "Spanish Flu" of 1918 qualify as a pandemic? What is the difference between communicable, contagious, and noncommunicable diseases? Give...