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Germs LS 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| simulation | the process or act of imitation or acting out |
| simulate | to imitate how something happens in a real-world situation by acting it out with a model |
| initial carrier | the first person in a group to get a contagious disease |
| sentinel case | a person who begins the spread of disease in a group (usually the initial carrier) |
| model | a way of representing something in the world to learn more about it |
| representation | a likeness or image of something |
| epidemiology | the study of how and why diseases occur |
| epidemiologist | a scientist who studies diseases and how they spread |
| communicable disease | a disease that spreads readily from one person to another |
| non-communicable disease | a disease that cannot be passed on by the sick person to other people |