Basic Concepts & Dynamics of Disease Transmission

1.Indirect transmission of infectious diseases

2.Hypertension is an example of iceberg phenomenon of disease

3.Uses of epidemiology

4.Antigenic shift and antigenic drift

5.Source and reservoir of infection Substantiate your answer with reasons

6.Epidemiology of RTA

7.Iceberg phenomenon

8.Sub-clinical cases and Carriers

9.Community diagnosis

10.Disease carrier

11.Types of carriers in cholera

12.Diabetes is an Iceberg of disease

13.Epidemiological triad Differentiate between

14.Contribution of John Snow to public health in the 1850s

15.Antigenic shift and drift. Substantiate your answer with reasons

1.Mention any two types of carriers

1.Water pump in broad street in London was identified as the source of cholera by

• a) William Farr
• b) John Snow
• c) John Grunt
• d) Hippocrates