Transferal Terms
Occurs through firsthand contact
What is Direct Transmission?
A set of standard criteria to determine a disease, syndrome, or health condition.
What is a Case?
Infected carriers that never experience symptoms.
What is a Passive Carrier?
Screening to identify the early onset of diseases.
What is Secondary Prevention?
An illness, normally minor.
What is an Ailment?
Occurs through non first hand contact
What is Indirect Transmission?
The first index case or patient zero in a epidemic or population.
What is an Index Case?
When a carrier can transmit an illness before the actual illness begins.
What is a Incubatory Carrier?
Prevention before health effects occur.
What is Primary Prevention?
A disease or condition found amongst a certain type of people
What is an Endemic?
spread of infectious disease through air
What is Airborne Transmission?
A disease spread from human to human.
What is a Primary case?
One who harbors an infectious disease.
What is an Intermittent Carrier?
Prevention through change of behavior or exposure.
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
A disease prevalent over a whole country.
What is a Pandemic?
Regurgitated pathogen injected through susceptible animals.
What is Biological Transmission
A person who gets a disease from another individual with the disease.
What is a Secondary Case?
An infected carrier that can transmit their disease to others.
What is an Active Carrier?
Prevent disease before it even occurs.
What is Active Primary Prevention?
A widespread disease in a community
What is a Epidemic?
Occurs from infectious disease through physical touch or ingestion
Vehicle - Borne Transmission
Someone who meets clinical criteria and is in contact with a possible disease.
What is a Suspect case?
A recovered carrier that can transmit their disease to others.
What is a Convalescent Carrier?
Prevent people who are already affected by a disease.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
Transference of a disease through close contact.
What is Contagion?