Transmissions
Bacteria and viruses being transferred by respiratory droplets or dust
What is airborne transmission?
Infected person or animal that contains, spreads, or harbors a specific disease
What is a carrier?
The study of how diseases happen, spread, and are controlled
What is epidemiology?
An organism that harbors the disease
What is a host?
Prevention at the earliest level possible
What is primary prevention?
A disease being transferred via a specific vehicle (a needle, etc.)
What is vehicle-borne transmission?
Individual or animal who has had exposure to a pathogen or disease, but does not experience any symptoms
What is a passive carrier?
Diseases are widely spread across the world attacking the population
What is a pandemic?
Bacteria, fungi, viruses, mold, or parasites
What is a pathogen?
Efforts to prevent disability by providing rehabilitation
What is tertiary prevention?
The disease uses a host(s) as a mechanism to transfer disease
What is mechanical transmission?
An individual who has been exposed to a certain pathogen and the disease is harboring for some time
What is an active carrier?
A sudden increase in the number of cases of a specific disease (Out of the normal case total)
What is an epidemic?
An invertebrate that is capable of transmitting a disease
What is a vector?
Health screenings and early detection
What is secondary prevention?
A "slower" process of an agent being transferred from immediate item, then to the host
What is indirect transmission?
An individual who harbors a disease and remains infectious during the recovery period
What is a convalescent carrier?
Ongoing presence of a disease
What is an endemic?
The habitat in which an infectious agent grows
What is a reservoir?
A behavior change on the individual to prevent a disease
What is active primary prevention?
The transfer of a pathogen to host by vector during reproduction or developmental changes
What is biological transmission?
An individual who is in the beginning stages of disease, experiences symptoms, and has the ability to transmit the disease to others
What is an incubatory carrier?
When victims of a common source epidemic have contact and spread a disease further
What is a mixed epidemic?
An inanimate intermediate involved in transmission between a pathogen and a host
What is a vehicle?
No needed behavior change on individual part to prevent a disease
What is passive primary prevention?