Ways Diseases Transfer
bacteria and/or viruses that transfer by being on dust particles or respiratory droplets
A person that currently carries a disease and is able to pass it onto others
What is an Active Carrier
a person who has been diagnosed with a condition
What is a Case?
intervening before the disease occurs
What is Primary Prevention?
studies that focus on who, what, when, and where
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
a pathogen or agent that is carried by a middle man (item,organism, etc) until it reaches a susceptible target
a person who has never experienced symptoms of the pathogen, but still carries it
What is a Passive Carrier?
The first disease case discovered by the epidemiologist
What is an Index Case?
prevention that requires effort of the subject
What is Active Primary Prevention?
Epidemic that is spread by from person to person and common sources
What is a mixed epidemic?
infections spread by a bite of an infected insect
What is vector-borne transmission?
a person who has recovered from a disease, but still is able to spread it
What is a Convalescent Carrier
The first disease case that occurs in the population
What is a Primary Case?
Reducing or eliminating the spread of a disease
What is Secondary Prevention?
What is zoonosis?
a pathogen that is spread from host to host by intermediary objects
What is vehicle-borne transmission
A person who is able to spread disease before they are experiencing symptoms
What is an Incubatory Carrier?
A person or many who became infected and sick from contact with the primary case
What is a Secondary Case?
helping the subject reduce complications that the disease can/may cause
What is Tertiary Prevention?
an object that harbors an infection
What is a Fomite?
a pathogen that uses another host (vector/rodents) for transportation/nourishment as means to spread
What is Mechanical Transmission
A person who has a disease that comes and goes
What is an Intermittent Carrier?
a person or many who have all the similar symptoms as the suspected disease, but have not been formally diagnosed
What is a Suspect Case?
the process of returning as much quality of life as possible to an afflicted person
What is Rehabilitation?
What is a Reservoir?