Definitions
Transmission Types
Case Identification
Prevention Identification
Extra Terminology practice
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The definition of Epidemiology is...

What is the study of disease transmission

100

The definition of indirect transmission is...

What is the transmission without human to human contact called?

100

A case is...

What is a particular instance of a disease?

100

Primary prevention is...

What is the intervention before health effects occur?

100

A carrier is...

What is someone called who is capable of spreading a genetic mutation?

200

The definition of epidemic is....

What is the widespread of diseases

200

The definition of direct transmission is...

What is transmission through direct contact called?

200

A primary case is...

What is the first stage of the development of a disease called?

200

Passive primary prevention is...

What is the act in which you do not need to have a behavioral change in order to prevent contracting a disease?

200

Active carrier... 

What is a person called who does not exhibit any signs of infection but can spread?

300

The definition of pandemic is...

What is a disease that has spread to an entire country or the world

300

The definition of airborne transmission is...

What is the spread of a particle through the air called?
300

A secondary case is...

What is it called when a person gets a disease from a person who has already contracted it?

300
Secondary prevention is...

What is the detection of a disease early to prevent further spread?

300

Portal of exit...

What is the path where a pathogen leaves it's host?

400

The definition of endemic is...

What is a disease that effects a particular group of people or area?

400

The definition of vehicle-born transmission...

What is the transmission process of a pathogen indirectly transferred from an inanimate object

400

An index case is...

What is the first documented case of an infectious disease? 

400

Tertiary prevention is...

What are people who are already affected by a disease, and the ultimate goal is to improve quality of living?
400

Portal of entry...

What is it called when a pathogen enters the host?

500

The definition of propagated is...

What is the spread or promotion? 

500

The definition of biological transmission is...

What is it called when the vector uptakes an agent usually due to an infected animal?

500

A case definition is identified as...

What is the tracking of disease distribution called?

500

Active primary prevention...

What is the act of prevention prior to primary prevention?

500

Vector is...

What is an agent who carries and distributes infectious pathogens?

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