Epidemiology
This aggregation of cases of a disease, injury, or other health condition grouped in place and time that are suspected to be greater than the number expected, although the expected number might be unknown.
What is a cluster?
This is the name given to the resistance of an entire community or group to an infectious agent as a result of a substantial proportion of the population being immune to the agent.
What is Herd Immunity?
This kind of vaccine genetically modifies the pathogen to make it less virulent.
What is live-attenuated vaccine?
This bacteria is an aerobic, gram-negative coccobacillus in the family Enterobacteriaceae. Its also known for causing swollen lymph nodes, otherwise known as buboes.
What is Yersinia Pestis?
This mosquito-born parasite that infects red blood cells causes flu-like symptoms.
What is Malaria?
This the occurrence of more cases of disease, injury, or other health condition than expected in a given area or among a specific group of persons during a specific time period.
What is Epidemic/outbreak?
This occurs when infection caused by a specific agent in a large – but not global – area is reduced to zero.
What is Elimination?
When the microbes from a vaccine are dead, the vaccine is called _____.
What is inactivated vaccine?
When viruses mutate either on themselves or by exchanging genetic material with other viruses, these phenomena are respectively called ______ and ______.
What is genetic drift and genetic shift?
This virus causes paralyses in children. Fortunately, there is a vaccine for it.
What is polio(virus)?
Some of the examples of __________ are Salmonella, Measles, and Dengue Fever.
What is epidemics?
This occurs when infection caused by a specific agent is reduced to zero globally.
What is eradication?
He is known for making the most potent vaccine ever, which made him a Nobel prize winner.
Who is Max Theiler?
This kind of viruses has only one ribonucleic acid. But, don't be fooled, some of them can accomplish a lot with that.
What are single-stranded RNA viruses?
What is Miasma?
This is the name given to immediate transfer of an agent from a reservoir to a host by direct contact
What is (direct) transmission?
Also known as public health economics, this employs decision analyses and modeling techniques to provide information for decisions about allocating resources and formulating policy in public health.
What is public health effectiveness?
This word from Latin is the origin of the word vaccine.
What is vaca?
These are the first letters of two proteins found on the surface of influenza cells. They give viruses the ability to infect other cells and replicate.
What are H and N? (hemagglutinin and neuraminidase)
Unlike many others, this bacteria, whose main habitat is the marine ecosystem, has two circular chromosomes.
What is Vibrio Cholerae?
In epidemiology, _____of infection is the expected number of cases directly generated by one case in a population where all individuals are susceptible to infection.
What is basic reproduction number?
This was introduced as a tool to define the severity of a future influenza outbreak. To facilitate risk communication, it had five categories similar to the hurricane severity scale, ranging in severity from category 1 (moderate severity) to category 5 (most severe) and was based on a hypothetical 30% attack rate and ranges of case-fatality ratios associated with a particular novel influenza virus.
What is Pandemic Severity Index (PSI)?
Lady Mary Montague used this technic to protect her children from the risk of smallpox.
What is variolation?
This family of viruses include variola, cowpox, vaccinia, and monkeypox.
What is Orthopoxviruses?
This virus is known for its ability for attaching itself to immune cells, therefore causing the infected individuals to be susceptible to opportunistic pathogens.
What is HIV?