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fahad · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

One child in a kindergarten room had a slight fever and did not eat lunch. Otherwise, the child seemed OK. Three days later, several children were absent from kindergarten. Which of the following best describes what happened?

a. Another nursery school was offering the same child care at a much lower price.
b. Infectious diseases can be contagious before any diagnostic symptoms occur.
c. No way to tell; there are many reasons why parents keep children home.
d. Parents chose to protect their children from the child with a fever, so they kept their children home for a few days.

Question 2

A city that depended on tourist dollars had feedback that tourists were saying they were never returning because of the constant mosquito bites. Which of the following actions should be taken by the city?

a. Do not have any tourist events at dawn or dusk.
b. Have everyone in town search for and remove any standing stagnant water.
c. Give free bug repellent to each tourist.
d. Tell tourists to avoid wearing bright colors.

sultana.d · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
Frequently, the communicable period begins before symptoms are present. The communicable period, or communicability, follows latency and begins with shedding of the agent. The incubation period is the time from invasion to the time when disease symptoms first appear. Thus, even if parents kept their children away from the child with the fever, this could possibly be ineffective because their children may have already been exposed before the child exhibited symptoms. It is unlikely that the children suddenly changed schools. Although, there may be many reasons why parents keep their children home from school, in this situation there is a specific reason that can be identified.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
Knowing the reservoirs for infectious agents is important, because, in some cases, transmission can be controlled by eliminating the reservoir, such as eliminating the standing water where mosquitoes breed. The other interventions, not having events at dusk or dawn, providing bug repellent, and wearing bright colors are ways the tourists can cope with the mosquitos that are present, but they do not eliminate the breeding and presence of the mosquitos.