- True False Typhoid Mary Was An Example Of A Carrier Defined As A Person Or Animal That Harbors A Specific Infectious 1 (37.94 KiB) Viewed 25 times
. True/False: Typhoid Mary was an example of a carrier, defined as a person or animal that harbors a specific infectious agent without discernible clinical disease, and that serves as a potential source of infection. . True/False: A fomite is an animate, living insect or animal that is involved in the transmission of disease agents. . True/False: A point source epidemic is a type of common-source epidemic that occurs when the exposure is brief and essentially simultaneous, and the resultant cases all develop within one incubation period of the disease. 400 people ate dinner at a restaurant on Tuesday, July 14. Within 24 hours, 100 of these people had become ill with a gastrointestinal illness. The attack rate of gastrointestinal illness among those 400 people within 24 hours of eating at the restaurant was 25%. True/False: If not every member of a population has been vaccinated, herd immunity cannot limit epidemics in that population.