Question

Consider the following statements and find the right ones:

1.An epidemic disease is one “affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.The World Health Organization (WHO) furtherspecifies epidemic as occurring at the level of a region or community.

2.Compared to an epidemic disease, a pandemic disease is an epidemic that has spread over a large area, that is, it’s “prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world.”

• A. 1 only
• B. 2 only
• C. Both 1 and 2
• D. Neither 1 nor 2

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Both 1 and 2

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic is that: Epidemic is a sudden outbreak of a disease in a certain geographical area. Pandemic is an outbreak of a disease that has spread across several countries or continents.