Chain of Infection
The beginning of the chain of infection starts with a pathogen.
What is the Infectious Agent?
Stops an illness before it happens.
What is Primary Prevention?
It is considered an acute disease that causes diarrhea and dehydration. John Snow has researched this disease.
What is Cholera?
An exposure that increases the chances of an illness or disorder from occurring. Alcohol and bad eating habits increase an individuals outcome for getting sick.
What is Risk Factor?
Helps improve metabolism. It can be in foods. And it helps individuals have a good health.
What is Vitamins?
It is affected because of a pathogen. It can be individuals or animals.
What is a Reservoir?
The level of prevention where there is behavioral change.
What is Active Primary Prevention?
A fever that is continuous and causes rose colored spots.
What is Typhoid fever?
Individuals that are already affected in an epidemic spread the disease by having contact with other individuals.
What is Mixed Epidemic?
A condition that starts a health related problem.
What is Cause?
Individuals or animals that become sick through coughing, food, or mosquitos.
What is the Mode of Transmission?
Helps stop or slows the spread of an illness or disorder. Can be detected through technology, such as a screening test.
What is Secondary Prevention?
A bacterial infection that affects mostly animals. This infection economically affected farmers.
What is Anthrax?
Can be a virus, bacteria, fungi, or parasite.
What is a Pathogen?
An outbreak that affects a whole population.
What is Pandemic?
The process on how a disease is transmitted and how it spreads.
What is the Chain of Infection?
It is apart of the third prevention and includes counseling, plans for care, and being educated on the illness or disorder.
What is Rehabilitation?
A disease that causes bleeding under the skin. It mainly affected individuals out at sea.
What is Scurvy?
Objects that infectious pathogens can live.
What is Fomite?
A constant disease that affects communities. Such as the flu.
What is Endemic?
There are two portals in the chain of infection. The first one is when the pathogen leaves the reservoir to spread infection. The second portal is when the pathogen infects the host making the host ill.
What is Portal of Exit and Entry?
Causes the individual damage because the illness or disorder has occurred or is still occurring.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
A disease that caused blistered pimples. An individual named Jesty realized that this disease was interrelated with cowpox.
What is Smallpox?
Study of populations when health concerns rise. By asking the right questions it can help control or stop the problem from occurring.
What is Epidemiology?
A method where one is exposed to a weak strain of disease to increase immunity with a stronger strain.
What is Variolation?