Infectious Disease

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Fomites

are reservoirs that can transmit diseases but are inanimate.

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Vertical Transmission

: a disease that is passed generationally from mother to child.

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Horizontal Transmission

: passed directly from a site to a victim.

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Outbreak

: Sudden and unexpected emergence of a disease that affects many people but dies out quickly.

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Endemic

: A disease that affects low levels of populations, such as a few cities in a country suffering from an issue.

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Isolation

- remove the infected individual from the public so that the disease can no longer be transmitted from human to human.

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Epidemiology

discusses the different levels of infectiousness and helps lay out the levels for health professions to label health crisiss.

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Disinfection

- clean and anywhere or anything that the infected person made contact with.

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Pathogen

: Organism that causes infectious disease to a host.

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Contagiousness

is huge factor in the infectiousness of a disease.

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Quarantine

can also be done by those who have yet to be infected and works to prevent anyone from being infected.

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Contagious

or a(n) is a disease that is passible from human to human.

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Portal of Entry

can be through the skin, through the mouth, or through the nose when something is inhaled or ingested.

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Infectious diseases

are heavily studied across the world and this is known as Epidemiology.

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Disinfection

is especially important for Bloodborne Pathogens.

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Infectious Diseases

cause millions of death every year and can be leading causes of death.

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Pathogen

Organism that causes infectious disease to a host

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Endemic

A disease that affects low levels of populations, such as a few cities in a country suffering from an issue

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Epidemic

Epidemics affect large numbers of victims in a specific area, such as an entire country being afflicted with something like Polio but the disease not spreading past the borders of the area

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Pandemic

Pandemics have a large number of victims and affects large areas

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Outbreak

Sudden and unexpected emergence of a disease that affects many people but dies out quickly

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Notifiable Disease

Majorly infectious diseases that are considered highly dangerous to the world and must be reported to the World Health Organization

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Measles, Mumps, Smallpox

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Horizontal Transmission

passed directly from a site to a victim

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Vertical Transmission

a disease that is passed generationally from mother to child

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Isolation

remove the infected individual from the public so that the disease can no longer be transmitted from human to human

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Quarantine

Quarantine the victim so that they can be safely treated and overcome the disease without endangering others

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Disinfection

clean and disinfect anywhere or anything that the infected person made contact with

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Examples of Bloodborne Pathogens are things like

HIV, HBV, and HBC