QUESTIONS ON LUNG DISEASE ONLINE

Tuberculosis

Visit http://www.lungusa.org/data/tb/tb2.pdf and answer the following questions based on the data shown.

Figure 1: What year reported the most deaths of tuberculosis?

Figure 2: In 2002 what did Maryland report as their TB rate?

Figure 3: Who reports the highest TB rates makes or females?

Figure 4: Of all the countries reporting TB cases, what percent belonged to the United States?

Figure 4: What was the second highest country to report TB?

Figure 5: What is the estimated TB incidence for SE Asia in 2005?

 

Visit http://www.edcp.org/tb/tubercul.html adapted from Centers for Disease Control "Tuberculosis-Get the Facts!" to answer the following questions.

 

  1. Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by what organism?
  2. TB can affect anyone of any age but some people are at higher risk. List 5.
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  4. What are some symptoms of TB disease? List 5
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  6. TB infection is different than TB disease. How?
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  8. How can you have TB infection? List 3 ways.
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  10. What should you do if you have TB infection or disease?

 

 

 

Maryland TB Statistics

Visit http://www.edcp.org/tb/trends.html to answer the following questions.

 

  1. In 2001, how many total TB cases were reported in Maryland?
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  3. Baltimore City has the highest case rate, what is it?
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  5. The highest rates of tuberculosis occur in what people?

 

Lung Cancer

Visit http://www.lungusa.org/data/lc/LC02PT2.pdf and answer the following questions based on the data shown.

Figure 1: What year reported the highest death rate?

Figure 2: Who has the highest death rate do to cancer, males or females?

Figure 2: What kind of cancer has the highest mortality?

Figure 3: In 2000 what group had the highest death rate do to cancer?

Figure 3: In 2000 what was the death rate for:

White males?

Black males?

White females?

Black females?

Figure 4: In 1999, what was the age adjusted death rate for lung cancer in Maryland?

Figure 4: What state had the highest age adjusted death rate for lung cancer?

 

Figure 9: How many lung cancer deaths per 100,000 people between 1995-1999 were attributed to smoking?

Figure 9: How people in Maryland how many people died during that time?

  

Asthma

Visit http://www.lungusa.org/data/asthma/asthma2.pdf and answer the following questions based on the data shown.

Figure 1: How many people per 100,000 died from Asthma in 2000?

Figure 2: Who tends to have asthma more males or females?

Figure 2: What race tends to have asthma more?

Figure2: What percent of people have asthma from ages 5-17?

Figure 2: What part of the country do people report the least percentage of asthma?

Figure 3: What is the difference between figure 2 and figure 3?

Figure 5: What percentage of people in Maryland report current asthma?

 

SARS

Visit http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/sars-faq.pdf to answer the following questions on SARS

Basic Information about SARS

  1. What is SARS?
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  3. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), during the SARS outbreak of 2003, a total of how many people worldwide became sick with SARS; of these, how many died?
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  5. In the United States, there were how many cases of SARS?
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  7. What are the Symptoms of SARS?
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  9. How is SARS spread?
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  11. What does close contact mean?

 

EMPHYSEMA
Visit http://www.lungusa.org/diseases/lungemphysem.html to answer the following questions.

  1. What is emphysema?
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  3. What are the early symptoms of emphysema?
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  5. List 4 statistics about Emphysema.
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  7. What causes emphysema?
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  9. How does emphysema develop?
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  11. What might the doctor prescribe? List 5
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  13. How can you prevent emphysema? List 4