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7th grade, Module 2 Vocabulary (Epidemics)

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  • Patient zero
    the first person to catch a disease
  • Epidemic
    an outbreak of a disease that spreads rapidly to many people
  • Inference (infer)
    make an educated guess
  • Contagious
    easily spread or passed around
  • Conformity
    tendency for an individual to align their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors with those of the people around them.
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  • Epidemology
    the study of how diseases spread through a population
  • Transmission
    the act of transferring something from one spot to another
  • Microbe
    germs that cause disease
  • Social Contagion
    ideas, behaviors, or emotions that spread rapidly through groups
  • Epidemologist
    a scientist that studies the cause, spread, and containment of diseases in a population
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