Transmission
Carrier
Epidemiology
Name that Term
Covid-19
100

A disease that results when an agent is transferred by some intermediate organism or process to a susceptible host

What is Indirect Transmission

100

An infected person/animal that contains and spreads an infectious organism

What is a Carrier

100

An increase in the # of cases of disease is above normal for a given time and place

What is a Epidemic

100

 A bacteria, fungi, virus, or mold that can produce disease

What is a Pathogen

100

The first disease case in a population

What is Primary Case

200

Transfer of disease to a human by a vector

What is Vector-borne Transmission

200
An individual who has been exposed and harbors a disease causing organism for some time

What is a Active Carrier

200

An epidemic that arises from a specific source

What is common source
200

An ongoing usual constant presence of a disease in a community

What is an Endemic

200

The transfer of a bacteria or virus through dust particles or small respiratory particles

What is Airborne Transmission

300

The direct and immediate transfer of an agent from a host to a susceptible host

What is Direct Transmission

300

An individual who harbors a pathogen and who, although in the recovery phase of the course of the disease, is still contagious

What is a Convalescent Carrier

300

A description of who, what, when, and where aspect of events in a population

What is Descriptive Epidemiology

300

A disease transmission that occurs when the pathogen leaves the reservoir through a portal

What is a Portal of Exit

300

The effort to prevent a disease before it happens

What is Primary Prevention

400

A vector-borne transmission process that uses a host as a mechanism for a ride, for nourishment, or as a part of a physical transfer

What is Mechanical Transmission

400

An individual in the beginning stage, who is showing symptoms, and has the ability to transmit the disease

What is Incubatory Carrier

400

A study that involves answering questions like "Why" and "How”

What is Analytic Epidemiology

400

An invertebrate animal that can transmit an infectious agent to humans

What is a Vector

400

An epidemic attacking the population of an extensive region

What is a Pandemic

500

The transfer of a pathogen to a susceptible host by a vector, with the pathogen undergoing reproduction, developmental changes, or both while in the vector

What is Biological Transmission

500

An individual who harbors a pathogen and can spread the disease at different places or intervals

What is an Intermittent Carrier

500

An epidemic that rises from an infection transmitted from one infected person to another

What is Propagated Epidemic
500

An infectious organism in vertebrae animals that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact, a fomite, or a vector

What is Zoonosis

500

When victims of a ongoing epidemic have person-to-person contact with others and spread the disease

What is a Mixed Epidemic