Multiple choice

Disease that has appeared for the 1st time or has existed, but is increasingly spreading is

  1. called environmental

  2. called pandemic

  3. called emerging

  4. called infectious
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C Correct answer
Explanation

An emerging disease is one that has recently appeared in a population or is rapidly increasing in incidence or geographic range. Pandemics refer to the scale of spread, while infectious simply describes the nature of the transmission.

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