Epidemiology Vocabulary
Basic vocab relating to how diseases spread
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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
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