Will You Carry This for Me?
Any person or animal that can harbor a disease, carry it, and spread it. Often the carrier does not show any signs of the infection.
What is a Carrier?
Transmission from person to person without any middle step
What is Direct Transmission?
Stopping a disease or disorder from happening
What is Primary Prevention?
A person within the community having a particular disease or disorder
What is a Case?
Examples of this include: Virus, bacteria, fungi, parasite
What are Pathogens?
Someone who has had a pathogen for an extended period of time and could have already recovered from the disease.
What is an Active Carrier?
A pathogen moves from person to person with the help of some mode of transportation
What is Indirect Transmission?
Detection of disease using health screening. Screenings are used to detect red flag warnings for diseases
What is Secondary Prevention?
The first of his kind to get the disease
What is a Primary Case?
The habitat that is vital for the infectious agent to live, grow and multiply
What is a Reservoir?
Someone exposed to a pathogen and has not yet begun to show any symptoms.
What is a Healthy Carrier
Mode of transmission includes droplets or dust particles
What is Airborne Transmission?
Limiting the effects or impacts of a disease using rehabilitation after the disease has already occurred.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
A person that has acquired the disease because the primary case spread it
What is a Secondary Case?
Anything nonliving (water or clothing) that can act as a bridge to spread infection
What is a Vehicle?
Someone exposed to a pathogen and is still healing from its illness.
What is a Convalescent Carrier?
Mode of transmission is a host like a rat, fly or flea. The host can act as nourishment for the pathogen or means of transmission
What is Mechanical Transmission?
Prevention strategies that include the need for an individual to change a behavior or lifestyle
What is Active Primary Prevention?
The first case brought to the attention of the epidemiologist
What is an Index Case?
Invertebrate animal such as ticks and mosquitos that carry the infectious agent, but do not cause it, and transmit it.
What is a Vector?
Someone exposed to a pathogen and is just starting to show signs of illness. At this time the pathogen is transmittable
What is an Incubatory Carrier?
When a pathogen undergoes a life cycle change while within an initial host or vector and is then transported to a new host.
What is Biological Transmission?
The attempt to get an individual’s ailment back to a high functioning and satisfying level of life
What is Rehabilitation?
A standard set of criteria that is used to consistently diagnose a case.
What is a Case Definition?
Infectious organisms carried by vertebrate animals (rabies, influenza) that can be spread via fomite, vector or direct contact.
What is Zoonosis?