Explain the differences between pandemic and epidemic

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Chapter 9: Infectious Diseases:

• Compare the following sets of terms: opportunistic versus true pathogen; communicable versus noncommunicable disease; acute versus chronic disease; and endemic versus sporadic disease.

• Explain the differences between a pandemic and an epidemic.

• State how an emerging disease is different from a reemerging disease.

• Explain how herd immunity works.

• Explain the five stages of infectious disease and summarize how these stages vary from one pathogen to another and the challenges that such variations present in epidemiology.

• Compare chronic carriers and asymptomatic carriers

• Define epidemiology and state its two primary goals.

• Define quarantine and explain when it may be an effective tool to limit disease.

• Calculate the prevalence rate and incidence rate of a given disease and explain what factors impact prevalence rates, and why.

• Define the terms population, morbidity, and mortality.

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