Types of transmission
What is direct transmission?
Spread of disease from someone who is contaminated
What is primary prevention?
To prevent an event from occurring at all
What is epidemiology?
A field of science that studies health within populations
What is a carrier?
A living object that carries an organism that may cause disease
What is a primary case?
First person to get the disease in an area
Define airborne transmission?
Disease particles that linger in the air and can infect others
What is secondary prevention?
What is a pandemic?
A disease that spreads worldwide and affects large amounts of people
An inanimate object that is contaminated with a disease
What is a secondary case?
First person to contract an infectious disease from the primary case
What is indirect transmission?
Spread of disease through air or contaminated objects
What is tertiary prevention?
medical aid, things to attempt to fix the problem that already occurred to reduce morbidity or mortality
What is an endemic?
Diseases that belong to a specific location or specific group of people
What is an intermittent carrier?
People who can spread at different intervals
What is a vector?
A living species that carries an infectious disease
What is vector-borne transmission?
Disease spread to humans by blood sucking creatures
What is rehabilitation?
Treatment to nurse someone back to health after injury or illness
What does to propagate mean?
To spread
What is an incubatory carrier?
Someone who can spread disease before showing symptoms of it
What is a pathogen?
A foreign organism that causes disease/infectious agent
What is vehicle-borne transmission?
a contaminated fomite that infects others
What is active primary prevention?
Taking steps necessary to not get a disease
a general, sudden increase of disease within a specific group of people
What is a convalescent carrier?
Someone who has recovered or is recovering from an illness but can still carry it
What is efficacy?
Ability to provide an intended result