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Pandemic Vocabulary
COVID19 Vocabulary to better understand current world events
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| asymptomatic | presenting no symptoms of disease |
| carrier | a person or animal that transmits a disease to others, whether suffering from it themselves or not |
| community spread | transmission of a disease directly within a community and not by importation from a foreign source |
| contagious | describing a disease that can pass from person to person, usually by direct contact; describing a person with such a disease |
| coronavirus | any of a family ( and especially genus ) of single-stranded RNA viruses that have a lipid envelope studded with club-shaped projections (they look like crowns , corona means crown). |
| epidemic | a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time |
| germs | a microorganism, especially one which causes disease |
| infect | affect a human or animal with a disease-causing organism |
| isolate | keep an infected person away from healthy people |
| novel coronavirus | the word novel means “new”, and a newly identified coronavirus strain is often called a novel coronavirus |
| outbreak | a sudden or violent increase in activity, use, or acceptance |
| pandemic | an outbreak of disease occurring over a wide area and affecting many people |
| Patient Zero | the person identified as the first to become infected with a disease in an outbreak |
| person-to-person | describing the spread of a disease from one person to another, typically through touch |
| quarantine | isolation and monitoring of people who seem healthy but may have been exposed to an infectious disease to see if they develop symptoms |
| social distancing | certain actions that are taken by Public Health officials to stop or slow down the spread of a highly contagious disease |
| symptomatic | concerned with, affecting, or having symptoms |
| transmit | often passive: cause disease to pass from animal to human or from human to human |
| vaccine | a substance used to protect humans and animals from a disease |
| virus | an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host |
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mrstrivette
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