Epidemiology

WHAT IN THE NAME

100

^{Spreads and promotes widely.}

^{What is Propagate?}

200

^{Carries and transmits the infectious pathogen.}

^{What is Vector?}

300

^{Objects or materials likely to carry infection.}

^{What is fomite?}

400

^{A disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans.} 

^{What is zoonosis?} 

500

^{Environment where an infectious pathogen lives.}

^{What is reservoir?}

WHICH IS WHICH

100

^{Type of epidemiology that describes the cause/effects, how/why.}

^{what is analytic epidemiology?}

200

^{Type of epidemiology that organizes and analyzes the health and disease effects.}

^{What is descriptive epidemiology?}

300

^{Trying to prevent yourself from getting a disease.}

^{What is primary prevention?}

400

^{Trying to detect a disease early on and preventing it from getting worse.} 

^{What is secondary prevention?} 

500

^{Trying to reduce a disease you already have from getting worse.}

^{What is tertiary prevention?}

DESCRIBE IT

100

^{A transmission mechanism where an infectious agent is ingested.}

^{What is vehicle-borne transmission?}

200

^{A illness or disease that is transmitted by vectors.}

^{What is vector-borne transmission?}

300

^{Transmits the agent during the incubation carrier.}

^{What are incubatory carriers?}

400

^{Individuals exposed to a pathogen.}

^{What are intermittent carriers?}

500

^{Those who have recovered from their illness but are still contagious.}

^{What is a convalescent carrier?}

THE UNKNOWN

100

^{An increase/spreading of a disease.}

^{What is propagation?}

200

^{Show characteristics of both common source and propagated epidemics.}

^{What is a mixed epidemic?}

300

^{Refers to the person that first brings a disease into a group of people and can only be spread from human to human.}

^{What is a primary case?}

400

^{A person with no reported exposure to the suspect initial or point source.} 

^{What is a secondary case?} 

500

^{First documented patient in the onset of an epidemiological investigation.}

^{What is an index case?}

HELP YOURSELF

100

^{Site where micro-organisms leave the host to enter another host that causes a certain disease/infection.}

^{What is a portal of exit?}

200

^{Site where micro-organisms enter the susceptible host and cause an infection/disease.}

^{What is a portal of entry?}

300

^{A carrier with a contaminated pathogen and can mechanically transmit it to another host.}

^{What is a passive carrier?}

400

^{A person or other organism that has become infected with a pathogen, but displays no signs or symptoms.} 

^{What is a healthy carrier?} 

500

^{Infectious agent that is transferred from a reservoir to a suspectable source from direct contact.}

^{What is direct transmission?}