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The following is TRUE about newly emerging infectious diseases EXCEPT for:

Select one:

a. Always results in pandemic disease.

b. Are known infectious diseases that spread to a new geographic region.

c. A large number are due to viral pathogens.

d. Nearly all are zoonoses.

e. Are infectious disease whose incidence has increased in the last 2 decades.

Re-emergent infectious diseases resulting from a natural catastrophe may be harder to control because of the following factors:

Select one:

a. A concentration of displaced humans living under greatly reduced hygienic conditions

b. A decrease in herd immunity below 90%.

c. Spreading of a drug-resistant strain of the causative agent.

d. All of the choices.

e. None of the choices.

The following is true about detection and control of newly emerging zoonotic diseases:

Select one:

a. Koch's postulates will easily clarify causal relationships.

b. Current diagnostics are adequate for detecting new emerging agents.

c. All of the choices.

d. None of the choices.

e. Metagenomics is a good tool to facilitate identification of the emerging agent.

Mechanisms that Mycobacterium tuberculosis use to evade the host immune response include:

Select one:

a. Intracellular growth in a vesicle.

b. Counteracting the inflammatory response.

c. Arresting phagolysosome maturation.

d. All of the choices.

e. Inducing formation of a granuloma.

1. The answer is: a. Always results in pandemic disease

Newly emerging infectious diseases might not always results in pandemic disease.

2. The answer is: d. All of the choices.

All the given option a, b and c are correct.

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