10. Which of the following recent widespread disease in considered pandemic?
a) Ebola virus disease
b) Middle East respiratory ayndrome coronavirus (MERs-CoV)
(c) H1N1 flu virus (awine flu)
d) Measles
11. Mt an initial examination in Oxford, Massachusetts, migraine headache was found in 5 of 1,000 men aged 30 to 35 years and in 10 of 1,000 women aged 30 to 35 years. The inference that women have a two times greater risk of developing migraine headache than do men in this age group is:
a) Correct
b) Incorrect, because a ratio has been used to compare male and female rates
c) Incorrect, because no data for a comparison or control group are given
d) Incorrect, because of failure to distinguish between incidence and prevalence
2. What would be the effect on age-specific incidence rates of uterine cancer if women with hysterectomies were excluded from the denominator of the calculations, assuming that there are some women in each age group who have had hysterectomies?
The rates would remain the same
The rates would tend to decrease
The rates would tend to increase
The rates would increase in older groups and decrease in younger groups
