What Is the Difference Between an Emerging and a Reemerging

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Multiple Choice

What is the difference between an emerging and a reemerging disease?

• A) Emerging diseases are of viral origin, and reemerging diseases are bacterial.
• B) Emerging diseases are ones for which vaccines exist; reemerging diseases lack vaccines.
• C) Emerging diseases are new to humans; reemerging are known but are rapidly increasing in incidence and/or geographic range.
• D) Emerging diseases evolve within humans, but reemerging diseases are of zoonotic origin.

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