Infectious Disease

Fomites

are reservoirs that can transmit diseases but are inanimate.

Vertical Transmission

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

Horizontal Transmission

: passed directly from a site to a victim.

Outbreak

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

Endemic

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

Isolation

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

Epidemiology

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

Disinfection

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

Pathogen

: Organism that causes infectious disease to a host.

Contagiousness

is huge factor in the infectiousness of a disease.

Quarantine

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

Contagious

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

Portal of Entry

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

Infectious diseases

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

Disinfection

is especially important for Bloodborne Pathogens.

Infectious Diseases

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

Pathogen

Organism that causes infectious disease to a host

Endemic

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

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

Pandemic

Pandemics have a large number of victims and affects large areas

Outbreak

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

Notifiable Disease

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

Ex

Measles, Mumps, Smallpox

Horizontal Transmission

passed directly from a site to a victim

Vertical Transmission

a disease that is passed generationally from mother to child

Isolation

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

Quarantine

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

Disinfection

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

Examples of Bloodborne Pathogens are things like

HIV, HBV, and HBC