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CORONAVIRUS

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  • 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