Transmissions
The immediate transfer of an agent from a host/reservoir to a susceptible host
What is Direct Transmission?
When an increase in the number of cases of a disease occurs above what is normally expected for a given time and place
A person who has been diagnosed with a health-related state or event
What is a Case?
A cough or a sneeze
What is Airborne Transmission?
Results when an agent is transferred or carried by some intermediate item, organism, means, or process to a susceptible host
What is Indirect Transmission?
An epidemic affecting the population of an extensive region, country, or continent
What is a pandemic?
Any object such as clothing, towels, and utensils that can harbor a disease agent and are capable of transmitting it
What is a Fomite?
Behavior change is needed by the individual
Nose, eyes, or mouth
What is a Portal of Entry?
Transfer of a pathogen on dust particles or small respiratory droplets that may become aerosolized
What is Airborne Transmission?
The ongoing, usual, or constant presence of a disease in a community
What is an endemic?
What is a Vector?
Behavior change is not needed by the individual
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
A bacteria or virus
What is a Pathogen?
Transfer of a disease that occurs when the pathogen uses a host like a fly, flea, or rat as means for a ride or for nourishment
An epidemic that arises from an infection transmitted from one infected person to another
What is a propagated epidemic?
An infected person or animal that contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism
What is a Carrier?
Aimed at health screening and early detection
Rabies, Anthrax
What is Zoonosis?
Transfer of a pathogen to a susceptible host by a vector, with the pathogen undergoing reproduction or developmental changes while in the vector
What is Biological Transmission?
When victims of a common-source epidemic have person-to-person contact with others and spread the disease, further propagating the health problem
Occurs occasionally at regular intervals of time, only in a few geographical areas
Sporadic
Efforts to limit disability by providing rehabilitation
Water, food, feces
What is a Reservoir?