AMU Medical AMU Solved Paper-2013

  • question_answer
    Disease which is always present at a low level in a given population or a region is termed as

    A)  pandemic                          

    B)  endemic

    C)  epidemic                           

    D)  notifiable disease

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

                                    Disease, which is always present at low level in a given population or geographic region is termed as Endemic disease, e.g., common cold, malarial fever sleeping sickness. Epidemic disease are not restricted to a particular geographical region and affect a large population and occur at large level in a given population group. While pandemic is also a type of epidemic usually affecting a large population over wide geographic region like- a continent or world. e.g., SARS, AIDS and Avian influenza, etc.


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