Cases
Directly exposed to the outbreak source.
What is a primary case
Transfer of disease from insect to human.
What is a vector-borne transmission?
An outbreak of a disease that affects a wide range of people over multiple countries.
What is a pandemic?
Someone who has been exposed and carries the disease. (Even if recovered.)
What is an active carrier?
Preventing a disease before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
Someone who has been diagnosed with a health related event.
What is a case?
Immediate transfer from a host to a susceptible host.
What is direct transmission?
A disease that affects many people in a community or region.
What is an epidemic?
Someone carrying a disease in recovering stages, but still infectious.
What is a convalescent carrier?
Individual behavior changes to prevent disease.
What is active primary prevention?
Individuals that have contracted a disease from another person, rather than outbreak itself.
What is a secondary case?
A disease pressed to a person from an inanimate item.
What is a vehicle-borne transmission?
A disease outbreak that is widely spread, yet easier to contain.
What is an endemic?
Someone who has contracted a disease but shows no symptoms.
What is a healthy carrier?
No requirement on individual to prevent disease.
What is passive primary prevention?
A person that has all the signs of a disease, but has yet to be diagnosed.
What is a a suspect case?
Disease is transferred by someone or something else, to another host.
What is an indirect transmission?
Multiple diseases coexist and lead to an outbreak or epidemic.
What is a mixed-epidemic?
What is an incubatory carrier?
Health screenings and early detection to prevent a disease.
What is secondary prevention?
First documented case of an infectious disease.
What is an index case?
The pathogen uses a host for a ride, nourishment, or transfer.
What is a mechanical transmission.
A bacterium, virus, or microorganism that can cause disease.
What is a pathogen?
Someone who carries a disease and is capable of spreading it to others.
What is an intermittent carrier?
Limiting disability, (damage control after disease has already run its course).
What is tertiary prevention?