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This foundational 19th-century nurse was the first to use statistical data and applied epidemiology to reform sanitation in military hospitals.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This should happen after touching raw chicken and before touching literally anything else.
What is handwashing?
The required quarantine period for a dog that bites someone.
What is 10 days?
This is the most effective, primary method used to prevent and control the spread of communicable diseases in a community.
What is vaccination?
These documents prove you officially exist.
What are birth certificates?
The most important first-line strategy to prevent the spread of pink eye.
What is hand hygiene (or washing your hands)?
This occurs when raw meat juices contaminate ready-to-eat foods.
What is cross-contamination?
Malaria, Zika, and West Nile Virus can be transmitted from a bite from these insects.
What is a mosquito?
To prevent getting a disabling and life-threatening disease and spending the rest of your life in an Iron Lung this is needed.
What is a Polio Vaccine?
This health department plan describes the agency's operational framework and key priority areas. FYI - it is on our website.
What is the Strategic Plan?
This is the leading cause of death per the CDC.
What is heart disease?
This foodborne illness is commonly linked to undercooked poultry.
What is salmonella?
The leading cause of rabies deaths in people in the United States are from getting bit by this.
What is a bat?
Administering a flu shot to a healthy individual at the health department is an example of this specific level of disease prevention.
What is primary prevention?
This is a ODH reference manual for LHD, hospitals, labs, and physicians to provide them with information about infectious diseases from a public health perspective, including prevention, control, and reporting.
What is the Infectious Disease Control Manual (IDCM)
High Blood Pressure is the leading cause of this?
What is a Stroke?
The temperature danger zone is between these temperatures.
What is 41°F to 135°F?
Alpha-gal Syndrome (AGS) can develop after a Tick Bite and cause an allergy to this.
What is red meat?
What vaccine-preventable diseases are spread through tiny droplets that hang in the air? Name 1
Measles or Chickenpox
The purpose of this is to provide comprehensive strategies and methods for the distribution of timely and appropriate information from the health department to the public, media, employees, governmental agencies, and stake holders.
What is the Emergency Communication Plan?
This is the epidemiologic term for an outbreak or disease that occurs over a wide geographic area, such as multiple countries or continents.
What is a pandemic?
This federal agency estimates that about 48 million Americans get sick from foodborne illnesses each year.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Public health staff often recommend this series of shots after possible rabies exposure.
What is rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)?
What U.S President survived infections with smallpox, diphtheria, and Malaria.
Who is George Washington?
This governs public health, outlining the powers and duties of the Ohio Department of Health and local health departments.
What is the Ohio Revised Code (ORC)?