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Infectious agent that is transferred by direct contact or droplet spread
What is direct transmission?
When a disease spreads across several countries and affects a large number of people
What is pandemic?
What is case?
The organism that caused disease to its host
What is pathogen
Preventing disease before it occurs
What is primary prevention
What is indirect transmission?
What is propagated?
The very first case of human to human spread of the infectious disease
What is primary case?
The habitat in which the infectious agent lives/grows/multiplies
What is reservoir
What is passive primary prevention
Where an infection is able to pass through the respiratory route
What is airborne transmission?
The route/method in which an infectious microorganism moves from one place to another to reach the new host
What is modes of transmission?
Person who got a disease from exposure to a person who's already had the disease
What is secondary case
Inanimate object that had become contaminated with the infectious agent
What is fomite
Preventative measure that lead to early diagnoses/treatment of disease
What is secondary prevention?
When an inanimate object/material becomes contaminated with an infectious agent
When you are able to transmit the agent during the incubation period before clinical illness begins
What is incubatory carrier?
Someone that has the signs of the disease but is not yet classified as infected
What is suspect case
Anything that can pass on an infection to another organism i.e. mosquito
What is vector
Those who are already affected by disease and tries to improve quality of life by reducing/limiting/delaying/restoring way of life
What is tertiary prevention
What is mechanical transmission?
Someone who has been exposed and who can spread the disease everywhere
What is intermittent carrier?
The very first person to be documented within the disease epidemic
What is index case
What is carrier
Helping a sick individual go back to their highest level of function
What is rehabilitation