Modes of Travel
The transfer of bacteria or viruses on dust particles or small respiratory droplets when individuals sneeze, cough, laugh, or exhale.
What is Airborne transmission?
An infected person or animal that contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism.
What is Carrier?
The effort to prevent a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is primary prevention?
A person who has been diagnosed with a health- related state or event.
What is case?
A field of science that studies health problems within populations.
What is Epidemiology?
The transfer of a disease to a human by a vector.
What is vector-borne transmission?
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a disease-causing pathogen and who has done so for some time, even though he or she may have recovered from the disease.
What is Active carrier?
The behavior change on the part of the individual that prevents a disease or disorder before it happens.
What is active primart prevention?
A standard set of criteria applied in a specific situation to ensure that cases are consistently diagnosed, regardless of where or when they were identified and who diagnosed the case
What is case definition?
When an increase in the number of cases of disease occurs above what is normally expected for a given time and place.
What is an epidemic?
The transfer of a disease via a particular vehicle
What is Vehicle-borne transmission?
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen but has not become ill or shown any of the symptoms of the disease.
What is a healthy carrier? Will also accept What is a passive carrier?
There is no behavior change on the part of the individual to prevent a disease or disorder from occurring.
What is passive primary prevention?
A person who becomes infected from contact with the primary case after the disease has been introduced into the population.
What is secondary case?
An epidemic affecting or attacking the population of an extensive region, country, or continent.
What is a pandemic?
The transfer of a pathogen to a susceptible host by a vector, with the pathogen undergoing reproduction, developmental changes, or both while in the vector
What is Biological transmission?
An individual who harbors a pathogen and who, although in the recovery phase of the course of the disease, is still infectious.
What is convalescent carrier?
Activities aimed at health screening and early detection to improve the likelihood of cure and reduce the chance of disability or death
An individual (or a group of individuals) who has all the signs and symptoms of a disease or condition but has not been diagnosed as having the disease or had the cause of the symptoms connected to a suspected pathogen.
What is suspect case?
The ongoing, usual, or constant presence of a disease in a community or among a group of people.
What is an endemic?
vector-borne disease transmission processes that occur when the pathogen, so as to spread, uses a host as a mechanism for a ride, for nourishment, or as part of a physical transfer process.
What is Mechanical transmission?
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen and who can spread the disease at different places or intervals.
What is an Intermittent carrier?
Efforts to limit disability by providing rehabilitation where disease, injury, or a disorder has already occurred and caused damage
What is Tertiary prevention?
The first disease case brought to the attention of the epidemiologist.
What is index case?
When victims of a common-source epidemic have person-to-person contact with others and spread the disease, further propagating the health problem.
What is a mixed epidemic?