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Gloomy; depressing
What is dismal
Understanding something /knowing without concious
reasoning
What is intuition?
death rate; the number/proportion of deaths in a population
What is mortality?
the passing/spreading of a disease from one host to another
What is transmission?
keeping conditions clean to protect health (especially water/waste)
What is sanitation?
A belief not based on fact
What is superstistion
noisy confusion; disturbance
What is commotion?
made unsafe/impure by contact with something harmful
What is contaminated?
a fatal, highly destructive epidemic disease (or a deadly plague).
What is pestilince?
removing/killing all microorganisms (germs) on a surface/object
What is sterilization?
Suggesting something bad or dangerous may happen
What is ominous?
deserted; bleak; empty.
What is desolate?
a widespread epidemic affecting multiple countries/continents
What is a pandemic?
separating/restricting movement to prevent disease spread
What is quarantine?
changed genetically (a mutation), sometimes changing how a germ behaves
What is mutated?
To cover completly, swallow up
What is engulf?
certain to happen; unavoidable
What is inevodible?
a sudden increase in disease cases in a community/region
What is an epidemi?
separating sick/infected people from others to prevent spread
What is isolation?
to make impure/unsafe by introducing harmful substances or germs.
What is contaminate?
numerical data; facts gathered in the form of numbers
What are statistics?
to escape; avoid being caught/understood
What is elude?
a scientist who studies diseases: patterns, causes, and spread.
What is an epidemiologist?
a serious infectious disease outbreak; often refers to bubonic historically.
What is plague?
is a psychological phenomenon where behaviors, emotions, or ideas spread rapidly and spontaneously through groups or social networks
What is Social Contagion?