Pandemic terms
It affects or attacks the population of an extensive region, country, or continent
What is a pandemic?
An invertebrate animal that transmits infection by carrying the infectious agent from one host to another
A vector is what?
Requires physical contact between an infected host and a susceptible person, and the physical transfer of a pathogen
Six points at which the chain can be broken and a germ can be stopped from infecting another person
What is chain infection?
Preventing a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
The flu, malaria, and the common cold would be considered what type of pattern?
What illness is considered to be endemic?
The habitat in which an infectious agent lives, grows, and multiplies, and on which it depends for its survival in nature
What is a reservoir?
An arthropod carries an infectious agent and is responsible for transmitting the pathogen to a host.
What is a vector-borne transmission?
Pathogen or disease-causing agent then enters the body of a susceptible host.
What is portal of entry?
Requires behavior change in the individual
What is active primary prevention?
Victims of a common-source epidemic have person-to-person contact with others and spread the disease.
What is mixed epidemic
Spreads, or harbors an infectious organism
What does a carrier do?
Includes an inanimate object that carries an infectious agent to a host.
What is a vehicle-borne transmission?
pathogen leaves the reservoir, human, animal, or environment through?
What is portal of exit?
Taking health screenings and detection activities used to identify disease
What is secondary prevention?
Arises from infections transmitted from one infected person to another.
What is propagated epidemic?
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a disease-causing organism and who has done so for some time, has recovered from the disease
Droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen to the host and cause infection
Direct transmission and indirect transmission.
What is modes of disease transmission?
Limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage
What is tertiary prevention?
A person in a population who has been identified as having a particular disease, disorder, injury, or condition
What is a case?
An individual who has been exposed to a pathogen and harbors and who can spread the disease in different places or at different intervals
What is an intermittent carrier?
Pathogen undergoes changes within its cycle while within the host/vector and before being transmitted to a new host.
What is biological transmission?
A human or an animal that is susceptible to the disease
Any attempt to restore an afflicted person to a useful, productive, and satisfying lifestyle
What is rehabilitation?