HTH 100 MCCANN EXAM 3 (Latest update ) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SOLVED 100% CORRECT

HTH 100 MCCANN EXAM 3 (Latest update ) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SOLVED 100% CORRECT What is a pathogen? - correct answer A microorganism that causes disease What is an epidemic? - correct answer A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. What is a pandemic? - correct answer A global disease outbreak What is an endemic? - correct answer A disease that is always present to some degree but usually less impactful as time goes on (i.e. common cold) What is virulence? - correct answer Degree of pathogenicity What does it mean to be immunocompromised? - correct answer When an individual has a weak immune system and their immune system becomes impacted How do pathogens gain entry? - correct answer Wounds or physical trauma, direct contact, indirect contact (touching something an infected person touched), animal-bourne, interspecies-transmission, etc. What is animal-bourne diseases? - correct answer Carried by animals What does it mean to autoinoculate yourself? - correct answer When a person transmits a pathogen from one part of their body to another Risk factors you can control - correct answer Stress, nutrition, fitness level, sleep, drug use, personal hygiene, high-risk behaviors, exposure to products and services that increase risk Routes of disease transmission - correct answer Airborne, Direct Contact (blood / saliva /urine), reproductive, fomite (on surfaces), Vector (insects). Hard-to-control risk factors - correct answer Heredity, Age- weakened immune system (young or older adults), Environmental conditions-changes are increasing infectious diseases, Organism virulence and resistance- organisms mutated/more resistant to drugs