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disease detectives 2
disease detectives...science olympiad
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| outbreak (localized epidemic) | more cases of a particular disease than expected in a given area of among a specialized group of peopleover a particular period of time. |
| vector | an animate intermediary in the indirect transmission of an agent that carries the agent from reservoir to a susceptible host. |
| attack rate | the rate that a group experienced an outcome or illness = number sick/total in the group (look for high attack rate in exposed and low rate in unexposed) |
| epidemic | large numbers of people over a wide geographic area are affected |
| cluster | an aggregation of cases over a wide geographic area are affected |
| pandemic | and epidemic occuring over a very wide are (several countries or continents) and usually affecting a large proportion of the population |
| zoonosis | an infectious disease that is transmissable from animals to humans |
| public health surveillance | the systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data to gain knowledge of the pattern of disease occurrence in oreder to control and prevent disease in the community |
| 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 |
| fomite | a physical object that serves to transmit and infectious agent from person to person |
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