Question

A teacher walking through her first-grade classroom pauses to pick up a used tissue that had ended up on the floor instead of in the waste basket. Unfortunately, after discarding the tissue, she doesn’t immediately wash her hands, and acquires a strain of rhinovirus. Several days later she begins to experience symptoms of a cold. Based upon this scenario, please select the mode of disease transmission demonstrated here.
A) Direct contact (touching)
B) Droplet
C) Air
D) Fomite
E) Vector

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer will be option- Fomite

Explanation:

A Fomite is an inanimate object which carries the pathogen and can transmit the pathogen to a host who touched it.

The fomites are the common cause of the diseases in hospitals where infection can spread by stethoscopes and other objects.

In the given question, since the disease was passed to the person through a pathogen carrying tissue paper which when touche by the person got transferred to the person and caused cold.

Thus, the mode of this disease of transmission is known as a fomite.