Outbreaks
An outbreak spreading through an extensive region/continent.
What is pandemic?
What is direct transmission?
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
A person exposed to and who carries a disease-causing agent or pathogen.
What is active carrier?
A person identified with having a particular condition.
What is case?
Occurrence of health-related cases in a localized area at a particular time.
What is epidemic?
Diseases transferred to a susceptible host by an infected item or organism.
What is indirect transmission?
Activities aimed at early detection/screening to improve or cure the chance of disability or death.
What is secondary prevention?
A person exposed to a pathogen but does not show any signs or symptoms of the disease.
The first disease case brought to the attention of an epidemiologist.
What is index case?
Ongoing presence of a disease in a community.
What is endemic?
The transfer of bacteria or disease through people who sneeze, cough, laugh, or exhale.
What is airborne transmission?
Efforts to limit disability by rehabilitating a disease. injury, or disorder.
A person exposed to a pathogen and can spread the disease at different places or time.
What is intermittent carrier?
The first disease case in a population.
What is primary case?
When victims of an epidemic spread their disease through person-to-person contact with others.
What is mixed epidemic?
A vector transferring pathogens that is undergoing reproduction to a susceptible host.
What is biological transmission?
Behavior changes that prevent a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is active primary prevention?
A person who is still infectious after recovering from a disease.
What is convalescent carrier?
The people infected by being in contact with the primary case.
What is secondary case?
Epidemics that arise from transmission.
What is propagated?
When a pathogen uses a vector as a mechanism for ride, nourishment, or to transfer diseases.
What is mechanical transmission?
Actions that do not require behavior changes to prevent a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is passive primary prevention?
A person who is in the beginning stages of a disease, showing symptoms, and able to transmit.
What is incubatory carrier?
A person who has not been diagnosed but shows the signs and symptoms.
What is suspect case?