Disease Carriers'
"Contains, spreads, harbors infectious diseases."
What is a carrier?
Droplets/dust particles carry the pathogen.
What is an airborne transmission?
Can be a human, animal, or environment.
What is a Reservoir?
Preventing an illness or injury before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
Disease infecting multiple countries or continents and at large numbers.
What is a pandemic?
A recovered individual that is still spreading disease.
What is an active carrier?
An arthropod passes infectious disease.
What is a vector-borne transmission?
Anyone or anything the disease can infect.
What is a susceptible host?
Identify the disease as soon as possible to receive treatment.
What is secondary prevention?
A sudden increase of cases within a population.
What is an epidemic?
An infected individual that harbors no symptoms.
What is a healthy (passive) carrier?
An inanimate object that passes infectious diseases.
What is a vehicle-borne transmission?
A pathway that a disease can enter the body.
What is a portal of entry?
Stop the progression of illness or injury.
What is tertiary prevention?
A more-than-expected increase of cases.
What is an outbreak?
An individual that is beginning to show symptoms and is able to pass on the disease.
What is an incubatory carrier?
The infectious disease mutates while in the host.
What is a biological transmission?
Disease or virus.
What is an infectious agent?
Requires behavior change.
What is active primary prevention?
A disease occurring only occasionally and is not very common.
What is sporadic?
An individual in the recovery phase of the disease, but still able to pass it on.
What is a convalescent carrier?
A vector-borne disease that spreads using a host for nourishment.
What is a mechanical transmission?
A pathway that a disease can exit.
What is a portal of exit?
No behavior change.
What is passive primary prevention?
Only pertains to a particular population and is very low level. Usually native.
What is an endemic?