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Vocabulary words for science olympiad event
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pandemic | An epidemic occuring over a very wide area.(Usually effecting a large proportion of the population.) |
| Public Health Surveillace | The systematic collection, analysis. interpretation, and dissemination of health data to gain knowledge of the pattern of disease occurence in order to control and prevent disease on the comommunity. |
| Fomite | A physical object that serves to transmite and infectuous agent from person to person. |
| Control Group | A selected group that has similar characteristics to the sick group but is not ill. |
| Risk | Probability that an individual will be affected |
| Cluster | An aggregation of cases over a particular period closely grouped in time and space regaurdless of whether the number is more than expected number. |
| Attack Rate | The rate that a group ecperienced an outcome of illness= number of sick divided by total in that group. |
| Vector | An animate intermediary in the indirect transmission of an agent that carries the agent from reservroir to a susceptible host. |
| Outbreak | localized epidemic, more cases of a particular disease than expected in a given area or among a specialized group of people over a particular period of time. |
| Zoonosis | an infectuous disease that is transmissable from animals to human |
| Epidemic | large numbers of people over a wide geographic area affected. |
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