Types of Outbreaks
Originates from a single source.
What is a Common-Source?
Can contain, spread, and harbor an infectious organism.
What is a Carrier?
Having a particular disease, disorder, injury, or condition.
What is a Case?
Stopping a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is Primary Prevention?
Direct and Indirect transmission.
What are Modes of Transmission?
Infections transmitted and spread from person to person.
What is Propagated?
Individual who was exposed and who harbors infectious agent.
What is an Active Carrier?
First disease case in a population.
What is a Primary Case?
Health screenings and detection tools used to identify disease.
What is Secondary Prevention?
Direct transfer of an infection from person to person.
What is Direct Transmission?
A disease only found within a specific group of people.
What is an Endemic?
Carries a pathogen but does not have symptoms.
What is a Healthy or Passive Carrier?
Becoming infected from the primary case.
What is a Secondary Case?
Recovery after disease, disorder, or injury has already occurred and potentially caused damage.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
Indirect transfer of infection.
What is Indirect Transmission?
Fast spreading disease within an area.
What is an Epidemic?
A host who was exposed, in recovery, and still carries the infection.
What is a Convalescent Carrier?
Having all symptoms but has not been diagnosed.
What is a Suspect Case?
Does not require a behavioral change in a person.
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
Inanimate objects that transfer and infection.
What is Vehicle-borne Transmission?
Rapidly growing and multi-country spread disease
What is a Pandemic?
A host who can transmit disease in different places and at different intervals.
What is an Intermittent Carrier?
The first case is introduced to the epidemiologist.
What is an Index Case?
Requires behavior changes in an individual.
What is Active Primary Prevention?
Arthropod tranfers an infection.
What is Vector-borne Transmission?