to affect a human or animal with a disease-causing organism. IN_______________
INFECT
the person identified as the first to become infected with a disease in an outbreak. PATIENT ______________________
PATIENT ZERO
AN ADJECTIVE describing a disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans. (ZOO_______________)
ZOONOTIC
The transfer of a disease from animal to human or from human to human
TRANSMISSION
occurrence of a particular disease throughout a whole country or the world.
PANDEMIC
a substance used to protect humans and animals from a disease
VACCINE
practice of encouraging people to minimize contact and closeness, whether by banning large or even small groups/meetings (football matches, nightclubs), or by maintaining a minimum distance between people (for example one metre or two metre
SOCIAL DISTANCING
To identify an illness by examining the symptoms : D_______________
diagnose
AN ADJECTIVE describing a disease that can pass from person to person, usually by direct contact; describing a person with such a disease. (BEGINNING WITH LETTER "C")
CONTAGIOUS
official name for the novel coronavirus disease that emerged in China in 2019.
COVID-19
isolation and monitoring of people who seem healthy but may have been exposed to an infectious disease to see if they develop symptoms
QUARANTINE
the time from a person’s first exposure to a disease to the time when symptoms develop. ____________________ PERIOD
INCUBATION PERIOD
AN ADJECTIVE describing something like, caused by, or relating to a virus or viruses
VIRAL
occurrence of a particular disease in a large number of people in a particular area. E_________________
EPIDEMIC
to isolate oneself; put oneself in quarantine, away from other people
SELF-ISOLATION
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