COMMON INFECTIONS
A field of science that studies health problems within populations
What is Epidemiology
What is efficacy?
Specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
What is the World Health Organization?
Refers to the person who first brings a disease into a group of people—a school class, community, or country.
What is a Primary Case?
COVID-19 Is an example of
What is a Pandemic?
What is effectiveness?
Specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
What is the Food and Agriculture Organization AKA FAO?
The first documented patient included in an epidemiological study.
What is an Index Case?
What is a Pathogen?
The manner in which a pathogen enters a susceptible host.
What is a portal of entry?
Who is Dr. Fauci?
Its main goal is to protect public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability in the US and internationally.
What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention?
Occurs when infectious agents are carried by dust or droplet nuclei suspended in air.
What is Airborne Transmission?
How COVID-19 is spread.
What is airborne transmission?
The site from where a micro-organisms leave the host and enter another host to cause disease/infection.
What is portal of exit?
More than 80 diseases occur as a result of the immune system attacking the body’s own organs, tissues, and cells.
Promotes the health and well-being of Nevadans through the delivery or facilitation of essential services.
What is the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services?
Refers to spray with relatively large, short-range aerosols produced by sneezing, coughing, or even talking.
What is Droplet Spread?
A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
What is an epidemic?
The habitat of an infectious an infectious agent.
What is a reservoir?
Bacteria's in intestines of people and animals, and are key to a healthy intestinal tract.
What is Escherichia coli (E. coli) ?
Provides public assistance benefits to all who qualify and reasonable support for children with absentee parents to help Nevadans achieve safe, stable, and healthy lives.
What is the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services?
Controlling or eliminating agent at source of transmission.
What is an Intervention?