Basic Epi
applies to persons who are known to be ill with a contagious disease. it is often conducted on an inpatient basis in hospitals or nursing homes
What is isolation?
The occurrence of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior.
What is an Epidemic?
An individual can become ill with what? after the following exposure from this pathogen. Breathing in steam or mist from a contaminated hot tub
What is a Legionellosis?
This 2011 American Medical Disaster film begins with Beth Emhoff a businesswoman returning form a business trip in Hong Kong. She begins to feel slightly ill; two days later, back home in Minneapolis, she suffers a seizure and dies from an unknown illness.
What is contagion?
refers to transmission from an individual to its offspring through sperm, placenta, milk or vaginal fluids
What is Vertical Transmission?
disorder with sudden onset, relatively server, and short duration of symptoms
What is Acute?
An epidemic that affects or attacks the population of an extensive region, country, or continent.
What is a Pandemic?
An individual can become ill with what? after the following exposure from this pathogen. Eating low acid, home-canned items inadequately processed during canning and not heated before consumption
What is a Botulism?
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
What is I am Legend?
Occurs when an agent is transferred or carried by some intermediate item, organism, means, or process to a host, resulting in disease.
What is an Indirect Transmission?
immunity in most of a population through vaccinations
What is Herd Immunity?
Refers to the ongoing, usual, or constant presence of a disease in a community or among a group of people.
What is Endemic?
An individual can become ill with what? after the following exposure from this pathogen. an individual reports getting bitten by small midges while exploring the Cuban countryside
What is Oropouche Virus Disease?
Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself.
What is World War Z?
Occurs when droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen to the host and cause infection.
the stage of pre-symptomatic disease that begins with exposure and ends with onset of symptoms
What is an incubation period ?
A more than expected increase in the number of endemic cases.
What is an Outbreak?
An individual can become ill with what? after the following exposure from this pathogen. a kissing bug accidently falls into the blender as my acai bowl is getting made without anyone noticing.
What is chagas disease?
This Tv Show follows U.S. Army scientist Nancy Jaax who is confronted with the possibility of a potentially deadly outbreak of Ebola. Jaax, a veterinary pathologist, first identifies the ebolavirus after it appears in monkeys in a Primate Quarantine Facility in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
What is The Hot Zone?
an inanimate object that can be the vehicle for transmission of an infectious agent (e.g., bedding, towels, or surgical instruments)
What is a Fomite?
discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand washing standards in obstetrical clinics
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis ?
This outbreak usually involves a common source, such as contaminated food or an infected food handler, and all the exposures tend to occur in a relatively brief period.
What is point source?
An individual can become ill with what? after the following exposure from this pathogen. A delicious five course meal cooked by Mary Mallon.
What is a Typhoid Fever?
A team of Army doctors struggle to find a cure for the deadly Motaba virus that was transported from Africa to North America by a white-headed Capuchin monkey and is now spreading quickly throughout a small California town.
What is Outbreak?
a living intermediary that carries an agent from a reservoir to a susceptible host
What is a Vector?