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57342720d058e614000b6a26
Infection
Complex serological techniques have been developed into what are known as Immunoassays. Immunoassays can use the basic antibody – antigen binding as the basis to produce an electro - magnetic or particle radiation signal, which can be detected by some form of instrumentation. Signal of unknowns can be compared to that ...
What are immunoassays?
{ "text": [ "Complex serological techniques" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
57342720d058e614000b6a27
Infection
Complex serological techniques have been developed into what are known as Immunoassays. Immunoassays can use the basic antibody – antigen binding as the basis to produce an electro - magnetic or particle radiation signal, which can be detected by some form of instrumentation. Signal of unknowns can be compared to that ...
What type of signal do immunoassays produce?
{ "text": [ "electro - magnetic or particle radiation" ], "answer_start": [ 173 ] }
57342720d058e614000b6a28
Infection
Complex serological techniques have been developed into what are known as Immunoassays. Immunoassays can use the basic antibody – antigen binding as the basis to produce an electro - magnetic or particle radiation signal, which can be detected by some form of instrumentation. Signal of unknowns can be compared to that ...
What allows quantitation of the target antigen?
{ "text": [ "unknowns can be compared to that of standards" ], "answer_start": [ 287 ] }
57342720d058e614000b6a29
Infection
Complex serological techniques have been developed into what are known as Immunoassays. Immunoassays can use the basic antibody – antigen binding as the basis to produce an electro - magnetic or particle radiation signal, which can be detected by some form of instrumentation. Signal of unknowns can be compared to that ...
Immunoassays are able to detect what type of proteins?
{ "text": [ "generated by an infected organism in response to a foreign agent" ], "answer_start": [ 512 ] }
573427ac4776f419006619a5
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What does the acronym PCR expand to?
{ "text": [ "polymerase chain reaction" ], "answer_start": [ 28 ] }
573427ac4776f419006619a6
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What will be the ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics in the near future?
{ "text": [ "PCR" ], "answer_start": [ 55 ] }
573427ac4776f419006619a7
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What has the catalog of infectious agents grown to the point of?
{ "text": [ "virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been identified" ], "answer_start": [ 236 ] }
573427ac4776f419006619a8
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What must an infectious agent do to cause disease?
{ "text": [ "grow within the human body" ], "answer_start": [ 366 ] }
573427ac4776f419006619a9
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What are primers derived from the genomes of?
{ "text": [ "infectious agents" ], "answer_start": [ 698 ] }
5734284ad058e614000b6a48
Infection
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d...
What technological ability with regards to detection is currently available?
{ "text": [ "ability to detect any infectious agent" ], "answer_start": [ 24 ] }
5734284ad058e614000b6a49
Infection
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d...
What are the remaining blockades to the use or PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis?
{ "text": [ "cost and application" ], "answer_start": [ 203 ] }
5734284ad058e614000b6a4a
Infection
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d...
What are some diseases which won't benefit from PCR methods?
{ "text": [ "clostridial diseases" ], "answer_start": [ 367 ] }
5734284ad058e614000b6a4b
Infection
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d...
PCR can't detect the presence of any bacteria when what doesn't occur?
{ "text": [ "significant proliferation of the infectious agent" ], "answer_start": [ 563 ] }
57342ac5d058e614000b6a88
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
What is used in the treatment of AIDS?
{ "text": [ "AZT" ], "answer_start": [ 357 ] }
57342ac5d058e614000b6a89
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
How was the course of AIDS followed?
{ "text": [ "monitoring the composition of patient blood samples" ], "answer_start": [ 438 ] }
57342ac5d058e614000b6a8a
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
What could be done by understanding how the disease was transmitted?
{ "text": [ "resources could be targeted to the communities at greatest risk" ], "answer_start": [ 782 ] }
57342ac5d058e614000b6a8b
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
What did the genotypic identification of HIV later enable?
{ "text": [ "geographical origins of the virus" ], "answer_start": [ 1081 ] }
57342ac5d058e614000b6a8c
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
What is now commonly used to identify HIV in healthy people before the onset of the illnes?
{ "text": [ "Molecular diagnostics" ], "answer_start": [ 1308 ] }
57342b4c4776f419006619e7
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
What can wearing gowns and face masks help prevent?
{ "text": [ "infections from being passed from one person to another" ], "answer_start": [ 85 ] }
57342b4c4776f419006619e8
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
What is the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms?
{ "text": [ "Frequent hand washing" ], "answer_start": [ 142 ] }
57342b4c4776f419006619e9
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
Avoiding drugs and using condoms are other forms of what?
{ "text": [ "prevention" ], "answer_start": [ 266 ] }
57342b4c4776f419006619ea
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
Why is it important to cook foods well?
{ "text": [ "prevention" ], "answer_start": [ 266 ] }
57342b4c4776f419006619eb
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
What should one do with foods that have been left outside for a long time?
{ "text": [ "avoiding" ], "answer_start": [ 433 ] }
57342c544776f419006619f9
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
Recognizing the different characteristics of various diseases is one way to do what?
{ "text": [ "prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases" ], "answer_start": [ 19 ] }
57342c544776f419006619fa
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
What are some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated?
{ "text": [ "virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness" ], "answer_start": [ 218 ] }
57342c544776f419006619fb
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
What virus' strains incapacitate their victims extremely quickly before killing them?
{ "text": [ "Ebola" ], "answer_start": [ 309 ] }
57342c544776f419006619fc
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
Why is the initial stage of Ebola not very contagious?
{ "text": [ "victims experience only internal hemorrhaging" ], "answer_start": [ 683 ] }
57342c544776f419006619fd
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
What does the low virulence of HIV allow victims to do?
{ "text": [ "travel long distances" ], "answer_start": [ 1169 ] }
57342d2b4776f41900661a0d
Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
Recognizing the effects of small-world networks allows one to decrease what?
{ "text": [ "transmission rate of infectious diseases" ], "answer_start": [ 38 ] }
57342d2b4776f41900661a0e
Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
What type of interactions happen within groups of infected individuals in epidemics?
{ "text": [ "extensive interactions" ], "answer_start": [ 162 ] }
57342d2b4776f41900661a0f
Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
What is a way of drastically reducing infection rates?
{ "text": [ "focus is on the prevention of transmission jumps" ], "answer_start": [ 683 ] }
57342d2b4776f41900661a10
Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
What is an example of a success implementation of preventing transmission jumps?
{ "text": [ "needle exchange programs in areas with a high density of drug users" ], "answer_start": [ 757 ] }
57342d2b4776f41900661a11
Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
When was vaccination used to prevent the spread of the foot-and-mouth virus?
{ "text": [ "2001" ], "answer_start": [ 1074 ] }
57342dcc4776f41900661a21
Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
What is resistance to infection known technically as?
{ "text": [ "immunity" ], "answer_start": [ 25 ] }
57342dcc4776f41900661a22
Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
When may immunity be acquired?
{ "text": [ "following a disease" ], "answer_start": [ 51 ] }
57342dcc4776f41900661a23
Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
What is knowledge of protective antigens more complete for?
{ "text": [ "primary pathogens" ], "answer_start": [ 300 ] }
57342dcc4776f41900661a24
Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
What does herd immunity offer to vulnerable people when a large enough proportion of the population has acquired immunity?
{ "text": [ "a measure of protection" ], "answer_start": [ 411 ] }
57342dcc4776f41900661a25
Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
Vaccination is a way in which what may be acquired?
{ "text": [ "immunity" ], "answer_start": [ 25 ] }
57342eb44776f41900661a2b
Infection
The clearance of the pathogens, either treatment-induced or spontaneous, it can be influenced by the genetic variants carried by the individual patients. For instance, for genotype 1 hepatitis C treated with Pegylated interferon-alpha-2a or Pegylated interferon-alpha-2b (brand names Pegasys or PEG-Intron) combined with...
What can the clearance of pathogens be influenced by in an individual?
{ "text": [ "genetic variants" ], "answer_start": [ 101 ] }
57342eb44776f41900661a2c
Infection
The clearance of the pathogens, either treatment-induced or spontaneous, it can be influenced by the genetic variants carried by the individual patients. For instance, for genotype 1 hepatitis C treated with Pegylated interferon-alpha-2a or Pegylated interferon-alpha-2b (brand names Pegasys or PEG-Intron) combined with...
What is the brand name Pegasys for?
{ "text": [ "Pegylated interferon-alpha-2b" ], "answer_start": [ 241 ] }
57342eb44776f41900661a2d
Infection
The clearance of the pathogens, either treatment-induced or spontaneous, it can be influenced by the genetic variants carried by the individual patients. For instance, for genotype 1 hepatitis C treated with Pegylated interferon-alpha-2a or Pegylated interferon-alpha-2b (brand names Pegasys or PEG-Intron) combined with...
What are patients carrying certain genetic variant alleles near the IL28B gene more likely to achieve?
{ "text": [ "sustained virological response" ], "answer_start": [ 706 ] }
57342f81d058e614000b6ab8
Infection
When infection attacks the body, anti-infective drugs can suppress the infection. Several broad types of anti-infective drugs exist, depending on the type of organism targeted; they include antibacterial (antibiotic; including antitubercular), antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic (including antiprotozoal and antihel...
What type of drugs can suppress an infection when it attacks the body?
{ "text": [ "anti-infective" ], "answer_start": [ 33 ] }
57342f81d058e614000b6ab9
Infection
When infection attacks the body, anti-infective drugs can suppress the infection. Several broad types of anti-infective drugs exist, depending on the type of organism targeted; they include antibacterial (antibiotic; including antitubercular), antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic (including antiprotozoal and antihel...
How many broad types of anti-infective drugs exist?
{ "text": [ "Several" ], "answer_start": [ 82 ] }
57342f81d058e614000b6aba
Infection
When infection attacks the body, anti-infective drugs can suppress the infection. Several broad types of anti-infective drugs exist, depending on the type of organism targeted; they include antibacterial (antibiotic; including antitubercular), antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic (including antiprotozoal and antihel...
What depends on the method an antibiotic is given?
{ "text": [ "severity and the type of infection" ], "answer_start": [ 354 ] }
57342f81d058e614000b6abb
Infection
When infection attacks the body, anti-infective drugs can suppress the infection. Several broad types of anti-infective drugs exist, depending on the type of organism targeted; they include antibacterial (antibiotic; including antitubercular), antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic (including antiprotozoal and antihel...
How are severe infections of the brain usually treated?
{ "text": [ "with intravenous antibiotics" ], "answer_start": [ 524 ] }
57342f81d058e614000b6abc
Infection
When infection attacks the body, anti-infective drugs can suppress the infection. Several broad types of anti-infective drugs exist, depending on the type of organism targeted; they include antibacterial (antibiotic; including antitubercular), antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic (including antiprotozoal and antihel...
How do antibiotics work?
{ "text": [ "slowing down the multiplication of bacteria or killing the bacteria" ], "answer_start": [ 724 ] }
57342fe6d058e614000b6ac2
Infection
The top three single agent/disease killers are HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. While the number of deaths due to nearly every disease have decreased, deaths due to HIV/AIDS have increased fourfold. Childhood diseases include pertussis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, measles and tetanus. Children also make up a large percentage o...
What are the top three killer diseases?
{ "text": [ "HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria" ], "answer_start": [ 47 ] }
57342fe6d058e614000b6ac3
Infection
The top three single agent/disease killers are HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. While the number of deaths due to nearly every disease have decreased, deaths due to HIV/AIDS have increased fourfold. Childhood diseases include pertussis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, measles and tetanus. Children also make up a large percentage o...
How much have deaths due to HIV/AIDS increased?
{ "text": [ "fourfold" ], "answer_start": [ 182 ] }
57342fe6d058e614000b6ac4
Infection
The top three single agent/disease killers are HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. While the number of deaths due to nearly every disease have decreased, deaths due to HIV/AIDS have increased fourfold. Childhood diseases include pertussis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, measles and tetanus. Children also make up a large percentage o...
What are some popular childhood diseases?
{ "text": [ "pertussis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, measles and tetanus" ], "answer_start": [ 219 ] }
57342fe6d058e614000b6ac5
Infection
The top three single agent/disease killers are HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. While the number of deaths due to nearly every disease have decreased, deaths due to HIV/AIDS have increased fourfold. Childhood diseases include pertussis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, measles and tetanus. Children also make up a large percentage o...
Who makes up a large percentage of diarrheal deaths?
{ "text": [ "Children" ], "answer_start": [ 278 ] }
57342fe6d058e614000b6ac6
Infection
The top three single agent/disease killers are HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. While the number of deaths due to nearly every disease have decreased, deaths due to HIV/AIDS have increased fourfold. Childhood diseases include pertussis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, measles and tetanus. Children also make up a large percentage o...
What is the number 4 leading cause of death in the world?
{ "text": [ "lower respiratory infections" ], "answer_start": [ 421 ] }
57343074d058e614000b6acc
Infection
The medical treatment of infectious diseases falls into the medical field of Infectious Disease and in some cases the study of propagation pertains to the field of Epidemiology. Generally, infections are initially diagnosed by primary care physicians or internal medicine specialists. For example, an "uncomplicated" pne...
What medical field does the treatment of infectious diseases fall into?
{ "text": [ "field of Infectious Disease" ], "answer_start": [ 68 ] }
57343074d058e614000b6acd
Infection
The medical treatment of infectious diseases falls into the medical field of Infectious Disease and in some cases the study of propagation pertains to the field of Epidemiology. Generally, infections are initially diagnosed by primary care physicians or internal medicine specialists. For example, an "uncomplicated" pne...
Disease propagation can fall under the purview of what field of study?
{ "text": [ "Epidemiology" ], "answer_start": [ 164 ] }
57343074d058e614000b6ace
Infection
The medical treatment of infectious diseases falls into the medical field of Infectious Disease and in some cases the study of propagation pertains to the field of Epidemiology. Generally, infections are initially diagnosed by primary care physicians or internal medicine specialists. For example, an "uncomplicated" pne...
Who tends to initially diagnose an infection?
{ "text": [ "primary care physicians or internal medicine specialists" ], "answer_start": [ 227 ] }
57343074d058e614000b6acf
Infection
The medical treatment of infectious diseases falls into the medical field of Infectious Disease and in some cases the study of propagation pertains to the field of Epidemiology. Generally, infections are initially diagnosed by primary care physicians or internal medicine specialists. For example, an "uncomplicated" pne...
What is the non-medical mumbo jumbo term for pulmonologist?
{ "text": [ "lung physician" ], "answer_start": [ 392 ] }
57343074d058e614000b6ad0
Infection
The medical treatment of infectious diseases falls into the medical field of Infectious Disease and in some cases the study of propagation pertains to the field of Epidemiology. Generally, infections are initially diagnosed by primary care physicians or internal medicine specialists. For example, an "uncomplicated" pne...
Who works with both patients and general practitioners to identify a disease?
{ "text": [ "infectious diseases specialist" ], "answer_start": [ 425 ] }
573431514776f41900661a3b
Infection
A number of studies have reported associations between pathogen load in an area and human behavior. Higher pathogen load is associated with decreased size of ethnic and religious groups in an area. This may be due high pathogen load favoring avoidance of other groups, which may reduce pathogen transmission, or a high p...
What have a number of studies found a correlation between?
{ "text": [ "pathogen load in an area and human behavior" ], "answer_start": [ 55 ] }
573431514776f41900661a3c
Infection
A number of studies have reported associations between pathogen load in an area and human behavior. Higher pathogen load is associated with decreased size of ethnic and religious groups in an area. This may be due high pathogen load favoring avoidance of other groups, which may reduce pathogen transmission, or a high p...
What is higher pathogen load associated with?
{ "text": [ "decreased size of ethnic and religious groups in an area" ], "answer_start": [ 140 ] }
573431514776f41900661a3d
Infection
A number of studies have reported associations between pathogen load in an area and human behavior. Higher pathogen load is associated with decreased size of ethnic and religious groups in an area. This may be due high pathogen load favoring avoidance of other groups, which may reduce pathogen transmission, or a high p...
What does avoidance of other groups reduce?
{ "text": [ "pathogen transmission" ], "answer_start": [ 286 ] }
573431514776f41900661a3e
Infection
A number of studies have reported associations between pathogen load in an area and human behavior. Higher pathogen load is associated with decreased size of ethnic and religious groups in an area. This may be due high pathogen load favoring avoidance of other groups, which may reduce pathogen transmission, or a high p...
What does more restricted sexual behavior result in?
{ "text": [ "Higher pathogen load" ], "answer_start": [ 420 ] }
573431514776f41900661a3f
Infection
A number of studies have reported associations between pathogen load in an area and human behavior. Higher pathogen load is associated with decreased size of ethnic and religious groups in an area. This may be due high pathogen load favoring avoidance of other groups, which may reduce pathogen transmission, or a high p...
What may poor socioeconomic factors ultimately in part be due to?
{ "text": [ "high pathogen load preventing economic development." ], "answer_start": [ 1495 ] }
57343210d058e614000b6ae0
Infection
Evidence of infection in fossil remains is a subject of interest for paleopathologists, scientists who study occurrences of injuries and illness in extinct life forms. Signs of infection have been discovered in the bones of carnivorous dinosaurs. When present, however, these infections seem to tend to be confined to on...
What profession finds evidence of infection in fossil remains to be interesting?
{ "text": [ "paleopathologists" ], "answer_start": [ 69 ] }
57343210d058e614000b6ae1
Infection
Evidence of infection in fossil remains is a subject of interest for paleopathologists, scientists who study occurrences of injuries and illness in extinct life forms. Signs of infection have been discovered in the bones of carnivorous dinosaurs. When present, however, these infections seem to tend to be confined to on...
What do paleopathologists study?
{ "text": [ "occurrences of injuries and illness in extinct life forms" ], "answer_start": [ 109 ] }
57343210d058e614000b6ae2
Infection
Evidence of infection in fossil remains is a subject of interest for paleopathologists, scientists who study occurrences of injuries and illness in extinct life forms. Signs of infection have been discovered in the bones of carnivorous dinosaurs. When present, however, these infections seem to tend to be confined to on...
What has been discovered in the bones of carnivorous dinosaurs?
{ "text": [ "Signs of infection" ], "answer_start": [ 168 ] }
57343210d058e614000b6ae3
Infection
Evidence of infection in fossil remains is a subject of interest for paleopathologists, scientists who study occurrences of injuries and illness in extinct life forms. Signs of infection have been discovered in the bones of carnivorous dinosaurs. When present, however, these infections seem to tend to be confined to on...
What dinosaur's skull had pit-like wounds surrounded by swollen and porous bone?
{ "text": [ "Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis" ], "answer_start": [ 403 ] }
57343210d058e614000b6ae4
Infection
Evidence of infection in fossil remains is a subject of interest for paleopathologists, scientists who study occurrences of injuries and illness in extinct life forms. Signs of infection have been discovered in the bones of carnivorous dinosaurs. When present, however, these infections seem to tend to be confined to on...
How did tyrannosaurs become infected?
{ "text": [ "being bitten during a fight" ], "answer_start": [ 955 ] }
573443cb879d6814001ca423
Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
What is the practice of killing or trapping any animal?
{ "text": [ "Hunting" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
573443cb879d6814001ca424
Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
Why do humans most commonly hunt wildlife?
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
What is there a distinction between lawful hunting and?
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
What is poaching?
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
What is the species which is hunted referred to as?
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
What is the practice of killing or trapping any animal called?
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
When was lawful hunting distinguished from poaching?
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
Illegally killing, capturing or trapping an hunted species is called what?
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
Hunted species are usually referred to as what?
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
What animals are usually hunted?
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
What is it called to kill or trap an animal?
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
What species are usually hunted?
{ "text": [ "mammals and birds" ], "answer_start": [ 498 ] }
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
Why do humans hunt?
{ "text": [ "food, recreation, to remove predators" ], "answer_start": [ 185 ] }
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
When was lawful hunting distinguished from poaching?
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is ...
Species hunted are referred to as what?
{ "text": [ "game or prey" ], "answer_start": [ 469 ] }
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Hunting
Furthermore, evidence exists that hunting may have been one of the multiple environmental factors leading to extinctions of the holocene megafauna and their replacement by smaller herbivores. North American megafauna extinction was coincidental with the Younger Dryas impact event, possibly making hunting a less critica...
What does evidence suggest hunting may have been a factor in the extinction of?
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Hunting
Furthermore, evidence exists that hunting may have been one of the multiple environmental factors leading to extinctions of the holocene megafauna and their replacement by smaller herbivores. North American megafauna extinction was coincidental with the Younger Dryas impact event, possibly making hunting a less critica...
What was the North American megafauna extinction coincidental with?
{ "text": [ "Younger Dryas impact event" ], "answer_start": [ 254 ] }
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Hunting
Furthermore, evidence exists that hunting may have been one of the multiple environmental factors leading to extinctions of the holocene megafauna and their replacement by smaller herbivores. North American megafauna extinction was coincidental with the Younger Dryas impact event, possibly making hunting a less critica...
What are humans thought to have played a significant role in, in Australia?
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Hunting
Furthermore, evidence exists that hunting may have been one of the multiple environmental factors leading to extinctions of the holocene megafauna and their replacement by smaller herbivores. North American megafauna extinction was coincidental with the Younger Dryas impact event, possibly making hunting a less critica...
When was Australian's megafauna widespread?
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Hunting
Furthermore, evidence exists that hunting may have been one of the multiple environmental factors leading to extinctions of the holocene megafauna and their replacement by smaller herbivores. North American megafauna extinction was coincidental with the Younger Dryas impact event, possibly making hunting a less critica...
What along with multiple environmental factors led to the extinction of the holocene megafauna?
{ "text": [ "hunting" ], "answer_start": [ 34 ] }
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Hunting
Furthermore, evidence exists that hunting may have been one of the multiple environmental factors leading to extinctions of the holocene megafauna and their replacement by smaller herbivores. North American megafauna extinction was coincidental with the Younger Dryas impact event, possibly making hunting a less critica...
What replaced the holocene megafauna?
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Hunting
Furthermore, evidence exists that hunting may have been one of the multiple environmental factors leading to extinctions of the holocene megafauna and their replacement by smaller herbivores. North American megafauna extinction was coincidental with the Younger Dryas impact event, possibly making hunting a less critica...
What event was coincidental with the North American megafauna extinction?
{ "text": [ "Younger Dryas impact event" ], "answer_start": [ 254 ] }
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Hunting
Furthermore, evidence exists that hunting may have been one of the multiple environmental factors leading to extinctions of the holocene megafauna and their replacement by smaller herbivores. North American megafauna extinction was coincidental with the Younger Dryas impact event, possibly making hunting a less critica...
What is thought to have played a significant role in the extinction of the Australian megafauna?
{ "text": [ "humans" ], "answer_start": [ 438 ] }
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Hunting
While it is undisputed that early humans were hunters, the importance of this for the emergence of the Homo genus from the earlier Australopithecines, including the production of stone tools and eventually the control of fire, are emphasised in the hunting hypothesis and de-emphasised in scenarios that stress omnivory ...
What is undisputed about early humans?
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Hunting
While it is undisputed that early humans were hunters, the importance of this for the emergence of the Homo genus from the earlier Australopithecines, including the production of stone tools and eventually the control of fire, are emphasised in the hunting hypothesis and de-emphasised in scenarios that stress omnivory ...
Hunting was important for the emergence of the Homo genus from what?
{ "text": [ "earlier Australopithecines" ], "answer_start": [ 123 ] }
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Hunting
While it is undisputed that early humans were hunters, the importance of this for the emergence of the Homo genus from the earlier Australopithecines, including the production of stone tools and eventually the control of fire, are emphasised in the hunting hypothesis and de-emphasised in scenarios that stress omnivory ...
Production of stone tools and control of fire were also pushed forward by what?
{ "text": [ "hunting" ], "answer_start": [ 249 ] }
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Hunting
While it is undisputed that early humans were hunters, the importance of this for the emergence of the Homo genus from the earlier Australopithecines, including the production of stone tools and eventually the control of fire, are emphasised in the hunting hypothesis and de-emphasised in scenarios that stress omnivory ...
What became a theme of stories and myths?
{ "text": [ "hunting" ], "answer_start": [ 493 ] }
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Hunting
While it is undisputed that early humans were hunters, the importance of this for the emergence of the Homo genus from the earlier Australopithecines, including the production of stone tools and eventually the control of fire, are emphasised in the hunting hypothesis and de-emphasised in scenarios that stress omnivory ...
Hunting allowed what type of rituals?
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Hunting
While it is undisputed that early humans were hunters, the importance of this for the emergence of the Homo genus from the earlier Australopithecines, including the production of stone tools and eventually the control of fire, are emphasised in the hunting hypothesis and de-emphasised in scenarios that stress omnivory ...
What is undisputed about earlier humans?
{ "text": [ "humans were hunters" ], "answer_start": [ 34 ] }
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Hunting
While it is undisputed that early humans were hunters, the importance of this for the emergence of the Homo genus from the earlier Australopithecines, including the production of stone tools and eventually the control of fire, are emphasised in the hunting hypothesis and de-emphasised in scenarios that stress omnivory ...
What did hunting become a theme of?
{ "text": [ "stories and myths" ], "answer_start": [ 519 ] }
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Hunting
While it is undisputed that early humans were hunters, the importance of this for the emergence of the Homo genus from the earlier Australopithecines, including the production of stone tools and eventually the control of fire, are emphasised in the hunting hypothesis and de-emphasised in scenarios that stress omnivory ...
Stone tools and control of fire are emphasised in what hypothesis?
{ "text": [ "hunting hypothesis" ], "answer_start": [ 249 ] }
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Hunting
Hunter-gathering lifestyles remained prevalent in some parts of the New World, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Siberia, as well as all of Australia, until the European Age of Discovery. They still persist in some tribal societies, albeit in rapid decline. Peoples that preserved paleolithic hunting-gathering until the recent pa...
What type of lifestyle was prevalent in Siberia until the European Age of Discovery?
{ "text": [ "Hunter-gathering" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
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Hunting
Hunter-gathering lifestyles remained prevalent in some parts of the New World, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Siberia, as well as all of Australia, until the European Age of Discovery. They still persist in some tribal societies, albeit in rapid decline. Peoples that preserved paleolithic hunting-gathering until the recent pa...
Where does the hunter-gathering lifestyle persist, though in decline?
{ "text": [ "some tribal societies" ], "answer_start": [ 200 ] }
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Hunting
Hunter-gathering lifestyles remained prevalent in some parts of the New World, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Siberia, as well as all of Australia, until the European Age of Discovery. They still persist in some tribal societies, albeit in rapid decline. Peoples that preserved paleolithic hunting-gathering until the recent pa...
Indigenous peoples of the Amazonas preserved what until the recent past?
{ "text": [ "paleolithic hunting-gathering" ], "answer_start": [ 271 ] }