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Epidemiology Vocabulary

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Basic vocab relating to how diseases spread

NicoleCloutier
Created Date 11.10.19
Last Updated 11.11.19
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  • number of people who develop a disease (new cases) during a particular time period
  • number of people who have developed a disease at a specified time, regardless of when it first appeared
  • disease that occurs only occasionally in a population
  • disease constantly present in a population
  • disease acquired by many people in a given area in a short time
  • worldwide epidemic
  • continual sources of infection
  • individual capable of transmitting a pathogen without displaying symptoms
  • transmission that requires close association between the infected and susceptible host
  • transmission that is spread by to a host by a nonliving object called a fomite
  • transmission by an inanimate reservoir