Biology 9700 · AS & A Level · Infectious diseases

Infectious diseases — practice question

Measles is an extremely infectious disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) has organised a vaccination programme to control this disease.
(a(i))[1]

Name the pathogen responsible for measles.

(a(ii))[3]

Describe how the measles pathogen is transmitted.

(b)[3]

Fig. 5.1 shows the number of cases of measles globally each month between January 2015 and March 2019. Describe the pattern of measles cases as shown in Fig. 5.1.

(c)[4]

Explain why measles has still not been eradicated even though a vaccine has been available since the 1960s.

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