Individuals
An individual who has been identified as someone who has been diagnosed with a related health event or state.
What is a Case?
The transferring of viruses or bacteria via small respiratory droplets or particles of dust.
What is Airborne Transmission?
The effort that is put in order prevent a disease or disorder before it occurs.
What is Primary Prevention?
An infectious disease caused by the Variola Virus.
What is Smallpox.
A disease that focuses on a small community or population.
What is Epidemic?
Someone who has had exposure to a disease causing organism and now harbors it.
What is Active Carrier
The transmission process of a vector borne disease when a host is used by a pathogen as a mechanism for the physical part of a transfer process, for nutrition, or a ride.
What is Mechanical Transmission?
The actives that target health screening and other early detections in hopes to improve the chances of a cure and minimize the chances of death or disability.
What is Secondary Prevention?
An acute illness which affects the intestines with a toxigenic bacterium.
What is Cholera.
A disease that affects a much larger population such as a whole country or the world.
What is Pandemic?
Someone who is able to spread the pathogen, that they harbor, at different intervals or places after being exposed to that pathogen
What is Intermittent Carrier?
When an agent from a disease is transmitted or carried by an intermediate item?
What is Indirect Transmission?
The work that is put in to minimize the disability by offering rehabilitation where injury, disease, or a disorder had occurred and caused damage
What is Tertiary Prevention?
This illness can be contracted from contaminated food or water. It is life threatening and sometimes can be noticed with a rash.
What is Typhoid Fever?
An epidemic that arises from a fixed location.
What is a Common-Source Epidemic?
Someone who has not become ill or had any symptoms of the pathogen they were exposed to and that they harbor.
What is Healthy Carrier?
The different methods of ways a pathogen can be transferred.
What is Modes of Disease Transmission?
The change in behavior of an individual who prevents a disorder or disease from happening.
What is Active Primary Prevention?
An infection in the uterine that is usually of the placental site, secondary to childbirth.
What is Childbed Fever?
An epidemic that arises from an infection transmitted from one person to another.
What is a Propagated Epidemic?
A vertebrate animal who harbors an organism that is infectious and that can be transmitted to humans.
What is Zoonosis?
When a vector transfers a pathogen to a susceptible host and then the pathogen reproduces and/or undergoes a developmental change while still in the vector.
What is Biological Transmission?
When the prevention of the occurrence of a disease or disorder does not depend on the change of an individuals behavior.
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
A disease caused by a single or multiple rickettsia bacteria.
What is Typhus?
When victims of a common-source epidemic have person-to-person contact with others and spread the disease, further propagating the health problem.
What is a Mixed Epidemic?