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The recent COVID-19 problem would be considered a what?
What is Pandemic
A infected person or animal that can contain, spread, or harbor an infectious organism
What is Carrier
A person gets their results back and they show "negative" but in reality they have the disease
What is False Negative
The entryway through which the Pathogen (or other disease) enters the body.
What is Portal of Entry
The first disease case in a population.
What is Primary Prevention
An increase in the number of cases of a disease that occurs above what is normal. (given the time and place)
What is Epidemic
A person who has been diagnosed with a health-related state or event.
What is Case
What is Convalescent Carrier
Different ways in which a disease, pathogen, or other things and be given to an individual.
What is Modes of Transmission
Behavior that an individual changes to make sure that they do NOT get the disease or disorder.
What is Active Primary Prevention
A disease affecting or attacking the population of an extensive region, country, or continent.
What is Pandemic
The separation and restriction of the movement of people who are not yet sick, have been exposed to an infectious agent and may become infectious themselves.
What is Quarantine
A person who is exposed and is harboring a pathogen, and they are in the beginning stages, and showing symptoms. (They can still transmit the disease)
What is Incubator Carrier
The disease transmission that occurs when the Pathogen leaves the reservoir through the portal.
What is Portal of Exit
The Activities aimed at health screening and early detection in order to improve the likelihood of a cure.
What is Secondary Prevention
The victims of a common-source epidemic have person to person contact with others and they spread the disease.
What is Mixed Epidemic
An invertebrate animal that is capable of transmitting an infectious agent to humans.
What is vector
An organism, usually a human or animal that can harbor a disease.
What is a Host
What is Direct Transmission
The effort to limit disability by providing rehabilitation where the damage has already been caused.
What is Tertiary Prevention
The constant presence of a disease in a community among a group of people
What is Endemic
An infectious organism in a vertebrate animal that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact
What is Zoonosis
When objects (clothing, towels, and utensils) can harbor a disease and are capable of transmitting it.
What is Fomite
A disease that results when an agent is transferred or carried by some intermediate item to a susceptible source.
What is Indirect Transmission
Wearing a Mask is a form of what type of prevention