Transmission
What is airborne transmission?
An outbreak of a disease within a specific geographical region
What is an epidemic?
A person or object that carries or is capable of carrying an infectious disease
What is a carrier?
Prevention methods that serve to prevent a disease before it occurs
What is primary prevention?
What is a case?
The spread of infectious diseases through direct contact such as skin-to-skin contact or kissing
What is direct transmission?
An outbreak of a infectious disease that has spread across multiple countries or continents
What is a pandemic?
An infected person that is capable of transmitting the disease to other people
What is an active carrier?
What is active primary prevention?
Cases that are directly exposed to the source of an outbreak
What is a primary case?
The spread of infectious diseases through a reservoir or vectors to infected objects or surfaces
What is indirect transmission?
An outbreak of an infectious disease that is present but limited to a specific region
What is a endemic?
Infected individuals that are infected with a disease but never experience symptoms
What is a healthy or passive carrier?
Prevention strategies that do not require efforts from an individual for protection to happen
What is passive primary prevention?
An individual that gets infected by a disease from exposure to a primary case
What is a secondary case?
The spread of infectious diseases when the vector contains the agent
What is biological transmission?
What is a mixed epidemic?
An infected individual that can transmit the disease during the incubation period before symptoms arises
What is an incubatory carrier?
Prevention strategies that serve to detect a disease early and to treat it before symptoms worsen
What is secondary prevention?
A case that is probable of being positive for an infectious disease
What is a suspect case?
The spread of infectious diseases when a vector delivers organisms to the host
What is mechanical transmission?
The traditional model that is used for presenting the three components that are credited to the spread of disease
What is the epidemiolgy triangle?
Infected individuals that have recovered from their diseases and are still capable of transmitting the disease to other people
What is a convalescent carrier?
Prevention strategies that are focused on individuals already affected by a disease
What is tertiary prevention?
The first documented patient that has been infected by a disease epidemic within a region
What is an index case?