Types of Epidemics
The occurrences of cases of an illness or specific health related behavior?
What is epidemic
A person who has a specific disease or illness in a population?
What is case
An inanimate object that can harbor an infectious agent?
What is formite
Direct transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another?
What is direct transmission
Preventing a disease before it happens?
What is primary prevention
What is pandemic
A standard set of criteria that makes sure that cases re consistently diagnosed?
What is case definition
A person who has been exposed to infectious disease but has not become ill or shown symptoms?
What is healthy carrier
When an agent is carried by an intermediate hose resulting in disease?
What is indirect transmission
Health screening and detection activities used to find and identify disease?
What is secondary prevention
When victims of a common source epidemic have person to person contact and in doing so spread the disease?
What is mixed epidemic
The first disease case brought to the attention of epidemiologist?
What is index case
An infectious organism in animals that have vertebrae that can be transmitted through direct contact?
What is zoonosis
When dust particles carry the pathogen to the host?
What is airborne transmission
Behavior change in an individual?
What is active primary prevention
A primary type of infectious disease epidemic that arises from a specific source?
What is common source epidemic
The variables that are effective measures of a case?
What is case severity
An individual that has been exposed to pathogens and then can spread it at different places and levels?
What is intermittent carrier
When changes happen to the pathogen within the host before it moves to the next host?
What is biological transmission
Limiting disability by providing rehabilitation when a disorder has caused damage?
What is tertiary prevention
A primary type of infectious disease epidemic that arises from an infection transmitted from one person to another?
What is propagated epidemic
An individual that has all the symptoms of an disease or condition but hasn't been diagnosed with that having the disease?
What is suspect case
An individual that has been exposed to the pathogens of an infectious disease and is showing symptoms and can pass it along as well?
What is incubatory carrier
When inanimate objects convey an infectious agent to a host?
What is vehicle borne transmission
What is rehabilitation