129 Answered Questions for the topic Epidemiology
Epidemiology
08/12/19
Will superbugs cause mass human mortality in the near future?
Epidemiology
08/11/19
What is the appropriate PPE for potentially infectious situations?
Epidemiology
08/10/19
What would happen if you had a disease that was supposed to be eradicated in the USA?
Epidemiology
08/10/19
What is case fatality rate?
Epidemiology
08/02/19
Why do dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors work specifically well in battling malaria and toxoplasma?
Epidemiology
07/27/19
What is driving disease outbreaks: failure to vaccinate or vaccine failure?
07/19/19
Have there been any positive public health effects due to UV lights?
Occasionally, in hospitals and in eating establishments in the US, they have industrial grade UV lights in sconces attached to the wall (though they seem to be less prominent as the years go by). I...
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Epidemiology
07/19/19
Was patient zero a concept used in epidemiology before 1980s HIV investigation?
Epidemiology
07/17/19
Why is finding "patient zero" in an epidemic so important?
Epidemiology
07/17/19
Why isn't influenza considered a pandemic? It kills over 500,000 people per year worldwide.
Epidemiology
07/17/19
What would be a good instrument for an epidemiologic study of mental disorders?
Epidemiology
07/16/19
Why is it important to categorize infectious and non-infectious diseases?
Epidemiology
07/14/19
Why cancer has increased so much nowadays when it isn’t an infectious disease?
Epidemiology
07/13/19
What percent of a population need to be touched by a disease to consider it an epidemic?
Epidemiology
07/10/19
What is herd immunity and why is it so important?
Epidemiology
07/08/19
What is an infectious disease that is not contagious?
Epidemiology
07/03/19
How can we reduce the threats from microbes resistant to antimicrobial drugs as well as conquer emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases?
Epidemiology
06/25/19
Why is Ebola is so hard to eradicate?
Epidemiology
06/25/19
Why is epidemiology considered a basic science?
Epidemiology
06/25/19
What is the difference between causality and association in epidemiology?
Epidemiology
06/25/19
Why is there a larger amount of diseases that humans are susceptible to than previous centuries?
Epidemiology
06/22/19
With international travel being what it is currently, how could health officials hope to contain a communicable disease epidemic similar to the 1918 Influenza or the Middle Ages Bubonic Plague?
Epidemiology
06/18/19
Is it possible to create vaccines for food poisoning (E. coli, listeria, salmonella, etc.)? Why?
Epidemiology
06/17/19
What is vaccine epidemiology?
Epidemiology
06/11/19
How are infectious diseases, such as colds and influenza, most commonly spread?
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