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1. What can we infer from the first paragraph in this passage?
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a. Sickness from a toxin can be easily transmitted from one person to another.
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b. Sickness from an infectious disease can be easily transmitted from one person to another.
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c. Few sicknesses are transmitted from one person to another.
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d. Infectious diseases are easily treated.
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2. What are two other names for infections’ pathologies?
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b. Communicable diseases or terminal diseases c c c c
c. Transmissible diseases or preventable diseases
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a. The inability of an organism to multiply in the host
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b. The inability of an organism to reproduce
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c. The ability of an organism to enter, survive and multiply in the host
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d. The ability of an organism to reproduce in the host
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4. How do we know an infection is not synonymous with an infectious disease?
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a. Because an infectious disease destroys infections with enough time.
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b. Because an infection may not cause important clinical symptoms or impair host function.
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