The Carrier & Its Types
This is an infected human/animal that can also infect others.
What is a carrier?
When the number of cases at a time and place grows larger than normal.
What is an epidemic?
This is the study of health conditions and problems in human populations.
What is epidemiology?
The level of severity a case of illness is.
What is case severity?
This causes a disease.
What is agent?
This is somebody who's been exposed to and carries a pathogen, but does not seem ill or show any of the disease's symptoms and signs.
What is a healthy/passive carrier?
When an epidemic grows exponentially, expanding to an entire region, country and/or continent.
What is a pandemic?
An outside factor- human or environmental- that plays a part in the increased development of a bad health outcome.
What is risk factor?
This is when someone has been officially linked to a particular health-related condition/event.
What is a case?
A human or animal (or other organisms) that has a disease.
What is a host?
This is someone who's been exposed to and has carried a disease-causing pathogen for a while, even if they have recovered from said disease.
What is an active carrier?
The normal and/or native presence of a disease within a group/region.
What is endemic?
A type of epidemiology that describes details of health-related states/events.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
When a person/people has all the signs and symptoms of a disease/condition but hasn't been officially diagnosed with said disease/condition, including what is causing their signs and symptoms.
What is a suspect case?
The place where an infectious agent lives, grows and multiplies, as well as depend on said place to survive in nature.
What is a reservoir?
Somebody who carries a pathogen and can still infect others despite being in recovery.
What is a convalescent carrier?
A type of epidemic that occurs when a infected person passes their infection to another person.
What is propagated epidemic?
A prevention/control program's ability to produce benefits to those invited to participate.
What is effectiveness?
A set of guidelines created for specific cases to ensure that any further cases are diagnosed consistently.
What is a case definition?
This is an inanimate vessel that helps a pathogen pass from a reservoir or infected person to another at-risk host.
What is vehicle?
Someone who's been exposed to and carries a pathogen; they are in the beginning stages, shows symptoms and signs, and is at risk of transmitting their disease.
What is an incubatory carrier?
When people in a common-source epidemic escalate the epidemic by interacting with others, spreading the disease even more.
What is mixed epidemic?
A prevention/control program's ability to produce a desired effect for active participants compared to those who aren't.
What is efficacy?
An organism/substance that can produce diseases. Examples include bacteria, viruses and mold.
What is a pathogen?
The act of transferring a disease by using a vehicle. An example of this is sharing needles.
What is vehicle-borne transmission?