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112. What technical measure quantifies the number of existing cases of a disease in a population at a given point in time?

A. Incidence.
B. Point Prevalence.
C. Cumulative Incidence.
D. Mortality Rate.
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111. A food inspector identifies unsanitary conditions in a restaurant kitchen linked to multiple cases of salmonellosis. What is the urgent public health action?

A. Issue a warning to the restaurant management.
B. Immediately shut down the restaurant, seize contaminated food, and initiate a thorough decontamination process.
C. Wait for the restaurant to improve conditions voluntarily.
D. Only advise customers to avoid the restaurant.
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108. A patient experiences an unexpected severe adverse drug reaction to a commonly prescribed medication. What medicinal epidemiological system should be used to report this event?

A. The drug manufacturer's sales department.
B. A national pharmacovigilance system (e.g., FDA Adverse Event Reporting System, Yellow Card Scheme).
C. Social media.
D. Directly to the patient's insurance company.
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106. A sudden outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease is identified in a city, linked to a specific building’s cooling tower. What is the urgent public health action?

A. Advise people to avoid public buildings.
B. Immediately shut down and decontaminate the implicated cooling tower, and identify individuals who visited the building.
C. Wait for the outbreak to subside naturally.
D. Only treat the severe cases.
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105. A clinical trial for a new antidepressant uses a placebo group. What epidemiological principle is served by including a placebo group?

A. To increase the cost of the study.
B. To control for the placebo effect and natural history of the disease.
C. To make the study longer.
D. To identify only severe side effects.
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