Disease scale
What are 3 pandemics that have taken place in history?
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What is an example of each level of removing germs?
What is answers will vary?
What does the WHO stand for?
What is the World Health Organization?
uninterrupted and immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another
What is direct transmission?
Removes visible debris
What is cleaning
Any number of an unexpected number of disease cases in a localized area
What is outbreak?
What is the first step of disinfecting a surface?
What is clean the surface?
When a disinfectant has to remain on a surface for a certain amount of time
What is contact time?
droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen to the host and cause infection
What is airborne transmission?
Kills most harmful microbes
What is disinfection?
an epidemic that affects the population of a whole country or the world
What is pandemic?
What are five steps for how to properly wash your hands?
What is reference the paper?
The total number of existing cases (both new and old) of a disease or condition within a specific population at a given time
What is prevalence?
an agent is carried by some intermediate item, organism, or process to a host, that results in disease
What is indirect transmission?
Kills all microbes
What is sterilization?
occurrence of an illness or health related events in excess of normal expectancy in a community or region
What is epidemic?
What does PPE mean and what is one example?
What is Personal Protective Equipment and gloves?
A branch of science dedicated to investigating the source and spread of disease
What is an epidemiologist?
A mother with STD's gives birth to a baby who has the same disorder is an example of what type of transmission?
What is direct transmission?
Reduces microbe levels to a safe level based on standards.
What is sanitation?
ongoing and constant existence of a disease in a community or group of people
What is endemic?
What are the 6 stages of the transmission cycle?
What is a pathogen, reservoir, entry, transmission, exit, susceptible host?
What does the CDC stand for and where is the base located?
What is Center of Disease and Control and U.S.?
when an arthropod (living organism) conveys the infectious disease
What is vector-borne transmission?
What are the two terms you would use to describe a soap molecule
What is hydrophilic and hydrophobic?