Biology 0610 · IGCSE · Diseases and immunity

Diseases and immunity — practice question

The graph illustrates the number of deaths caused by MRSA infection per $100\,000$ people in a population of over-65-year-olds from 2005 to 2012. Suggest one possible reason for the pattern shown in the graph.

  • Aa decrease in the size of the population of over-65-year-olds
  • Bantibiotics do not affect viruses
  • Cmore effective antibiotics are being used to treat infected people
  • Dover-65-year-olds are immune to MRSA infection

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