Transmissions
Disease transmission through contaminated objects or substances, such as food or water.
What is a vehicle-born transmission?
An instance of a particular disease or health condition
What is a case?
An organism that causes disease
What is a pathogen?
A person or animal that harbors a pathogen without showing symptoms but can spread the disease.
What is a carrier?
Actions taken to prevent the onset of disease.
What is primary prevention?
Disease transmission through vectors like mosquitoes
What is vector transmission?
The first case of a disease in a population
What is a primary case?
The ways in which a disease is spread
What are modes of transmission?
A carrier that actively spreads the disease.
What is an active carrier?
Efforts involving direct actions, such as vaccination.
What is Active primary prevention?
Disease transmission through droplets or particles in the air.
What is airborne transmission?
A person who acquires the disease from the primary case
What is a secondary case?
The process by which an infectious disease is transmitted.
What is the chain of infection?
Carriers who do not show symptoms but can spread the disease
What is a healthy carrier?
Measures such as public health policies and regulations.
What is Passive primary prevention?
Disease spread through direct physical contact
What is direct transmission?
A person who shows signs of a disease but has not yet been confirmed as a case.
What is a suspect case?
The path by which a pathogen leaves its host
What is a portal of exit?
A person who has recovered from a disease but can still transmit it.
What is a Convalescent carrier?
Actions taken to detect and treat disease early
What is secondary prevention?
Disease spread through an intermediate object or organism
What is indirect transmission?
The first identified case in a group of related cases
What is an index case?
A model that shows the interaction between the agent, host, and environment in causing disease.
What is an Epidemiology triangle?
A person who can spread the disease during the incubation period, before symptoms appear
What is an incubatory carrier?
Actions taken to reduce the impact of an ongoing illness.
What is tertiary prevention?