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Per our class lectures, list and briefly explain three reasons why infectious disease pathogens emerge or re-emerge. Please list your answers separately (not as one continuous paragraph) to facilitate grading.

EXTRA CREDIT (UP TO 3 POINTS) Please discuss the Statute of Frauds. Also, discuss 6 types of contracts covered by the Statute of Frauds and as many exceptions as you can remember from the class discussion. Or discuss something that you learned in this class.

Bonus Question The disease EID (Epidemiology Infectious Diseasitis) was first discovered on an online discussion board in the College of Public Health at UF on 8/1/25. The incubation period appears to be 12 weeks long. The symptoms include but are not limited to delirium, blurry vision (that can only be corrected by reading glasses), fascination with other people’s morbidity and mortality rates, and a desire to make the world a better place. Since the local county epidemiologist has succumbed to the disease, your services as a public health official have been requested. You are trying to create a case definition for this novel disease. What factors would you want to include to identify a Confirmed case in your case definition? Check all that apply.

When considering Boyle’s law, as you start to inhale, what occurs inside of your chest?

A probe with the sequence 5′-G-C-C-A-G-T-A-T -3′ is complementary to and, therefore, will serve as a probe for which sequence?

Give at least two examples of how Epictetus uses the distinction between what is under our control and what is not under our control to arrive at prescriptions for happiness. How, for example, does control of desires and attitudes lead to happiness? What should our attitude be towards things that are not under our control?

An NGO (non-governmental organization) is planning a new intervention to reduce diarrheal disease in a rural region of South Asia. During the planning phase, they find that estimating the baseline incidence of diarrhea is difficult. As a public health epidemiologist, which of the following is the most likely reason for this challenge?

Which of the following infectious diseases typically has the longest incubation period before the onset of clinical symptoms?

Over the course of 10 days, a small rural town reports a growing number of residents with complaints of abdominal cramping and watery diarrhea. Cases continue to appear each day, and interviews reveal that nearly all affected individuals have been drinking from the same unregulated well. Once the well is closed, no new cases are reported. What type of epidemic curve would most likely be observed in this outbreak for a pathogen with an incubation period of 2-3 days?

A college student tests positive for meningococcal meningitis. Public health workers identify close contacts and offer prophylactic antibiotics. Which of the following is the primary goal of this contact tracing effort?