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The study and control of diseases in populations
What is Epidemiology?
The amount of cases of an infectious disease grows beyond what is expected for a population
What is an Epidemic?
This institution that closed in 2015 housed a collection of resources for the study of pathology
What is the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology?
various methods a disease is passed
What is Modes of Transmission?
Attempting to prevent the onset of disease
What is Primary Prevention?
Organisms that cause disease
What is a pathogen?
This disease causes diarrhea and is caused by ingesting contaminated food or water
What is Cholera?
This pandemic was the deadliest in world history and killed 20 to 40 million people
What is the Influenza Pandemic of 1918?
Anything that causes disease
What is a Pathogen?
Taking preventive measures like exercising and healthy eating to prevent disease
What is Active Primary Prevention?
Answers the who, what, where and when of health related events
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
This disease is found mostly in tropical areas, contracted from infected mosquitoes, does not have a cure
What is Dengue?
This scientist developed the first anthrax vaccine, among his many achievements
Who is Louis Pasteur?
A mosquito or tick is an example of this method of transmitting disease
What is a Vector?
Using early detection to prevent the progression of a disease
What is Secondary Prevention?
The first infected patient studied by epidemiologist in an epidemic
What is an Index Case?
This disease is caused when bacterial spores are inhaled, ingested, or enter the body through open wounds.
What is Anthrax?
This division of government began in 1798 where it provided healthcare for seamen
What is Public Health Services?
When a person carries a disease but does not show any symptoms of illness
What is a Passive Carrier?
Care given to return daily normal life function
What is Rehabilitation?
set of criteria used to determine whether a patient is linked to a disease
What is case definition?
This disease is spread by infected mosquitoes and can be fatal
What is Malaria?
This bacteriologist was the first to discover the bacteria that caused tuberculosis
Who is Robert Koch?
When a disease is transmitted by a host that is not infected
What is Mechanical Transmission?
When an intervention applied to a group of people produces the desired effect versus the group it is not given to
What is Efficacy?