2 What is the difference between epidemic and endemic diseases?
3 Which epidemic disease spread across this country in 1348-49 and again in 1665? What were the symptoms of this disease and how was it spread?
4 Find out how the villagers of Eyam in Derbyshire responded to the epidemic.
5 Explain why disease can spread so quickly nowadays and why it would be almost impossible to respond as the villagers in Eyam did.
6 When is the outbreak of a disease described as pandemic?
7 What new health threats have emerged in the last two decades? What are the key causes of these threats?
8 It has been suggested that an outbreak of bubonic plague is possible in New York - especially in Manhattan where several school playgrounds have been declared 'no go zones' because of an increasing rat population. Suggest why New York is particularly at risk, and explain what steps could be taken to prevent an outbreak.