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Reports of Influenza like illness rates are the backbone of passive surveillance systems for monitoring seasonal influenza. Which of the following enhance reporting activities would not necessarily be critical to study or monitor in the event of a likely imminent pandemic strain emerging?:

Which ONE of the following is NOT TRUE with regard to ROUTINELY available data:  

A propagated epidemic is usually the result of what type of exposure?

The main advantage of a randomized controlled trial (RTC) compared to all other epidemiology study designs is that the RCT:

What is the incidence of disease during July?

Use the following diagram for Questions 30 and 31. Assume that the horizontal lines in the diagram represent duration of illness in 8 different people, out of a community of 700.

The classical Epidemiological triad DOES NOT INCLUDE:

An epidemiologist was reporting the weekly figures for ‘green hair disease’ and was heard saying: “There are usually 40–50 cases per week, last week, 48 cases………….” This denotes a pattern of disease which could be described as:

Epidemiological methods, as COVERED in this module, would most likely be integral to the following activities: WHICH ANSWER IS NOT TRUE

Joseph Lind’s 1747 on-board comparison of the relative merits of six treatments then in use for treating scurvy, was an example of: