Epidemiology
Terms
Disease,
Disease Everywhere!
Infection
Break the Chain!
Carriers?
Get Away From Me!
WHO?
WHO WHO?
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The study of factors related to frequency, distribution, and determinants of all diseases in humans across the population

What is Epidemiology 

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The term for a disease that is caused by a pathogen

What is Infectious Disease

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This is the most important method for health care workers to reduce the transmission of microbes

What is Hand Washing

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This type of carrier, carries the pathogen but is never ill 

What is a Passive Carrier

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This term means no further cases occur and programs for control are not necessary.

What is Eradication

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The study of structure and function of pathogens causing disease

What is Pathology

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A disease that occurs only occasionally within the population of a particular geographic area

What is a Sporadic Disease

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These are inanimate objects capable of transmitting pathogens

What is a Fomite

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This type of carrier is capable of transmitting pathogen during incubation period of infectious disease

What are Incubatory Carriers

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These microbes purposely used to harm others in wartime

What are Biological Warfare Agents

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A ratio of the number of people who died of a particular disease during a specified time period per a specified population

What is Mortality Rate

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A disease that is always present within the population of a particular geographic area

What is an Endemic Disease

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This mode of transmission is transferred by droplets   > 5 μm

What is Droplet Transmission

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This type of carrier carries pathogen and capable of transmitting during recovery period

What are Convalescent Carriers

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Examples of Bioterrorism 

Anthrax, Small Pox, Plague, Botulism 

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This is a type of infectious disease that can be transmitted from one person to another

What is a Communicable Disease

(e.g. Gonorrhea)

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This has a greater than usual number of cases of a disease in a particular region, usually within a short period of time

What is an Epidemic Disease

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This big factor could contribute to a susceptible host and the development of an opportunistic infection

What is Stress

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This type of carrier completely recovered from an illness but continue to harbor the pathogen indefinitely

What is an Active Carrier

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Examples of Nationally Notifiable Diseases

Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Salmonella, HIV, Lyme Disease, Pertussis, Syphilis, Shigellosis, Varicella, Streptococcus 

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This is a type of disease that humans acquire from animal sources

What is a Zoonotic Disease

(e.g. Lyme Disease)

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A disease occurring in epidemic proportions in many countries simultaneously

What is a Pandemic

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Patient gowns, bedding, towels, eating utensils, stethoscope, gloves, telephones, keyboards

What are Fomites

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Typhoid Mary was an example of which type of carrier? 

What is an Active Carrier

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This is a reduction of transmission to very low level

What is Elimination