INTC 2P97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome, Innate Immune System, Rna Virus
11 Dec 2016
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Local transmission: vector exists, vectors transmits, and hosts are eligible. Preventable diseases are coming back (especially childhood) because people are choosing not to vaccinate. Germ theory: there are diseases that can be transmitted by germs. Sars: case i(cid:374) va(cid:374)(cid:272)ou(cid:448)er (cid:449)as i(cid:373)(cid:373)ediately isolated e(cid:448)e(cid:374) though they did(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hat it was. In toronto, they kept transferring the patient which caused the spread and outbreak. Prevalence: proportion of cases in a number of people over a certain amount of time (existing number of cases at the moment) Incidence: the amount of new cases at a given time. Pandemic: cases appear across the vast majority of the globe. Definition: a disease outbreak is the occurrence of cases of disease in excess of what would normally be expected in a defined community, geographical area, or season. An outbreak may occur in a restricted geographical area, or may extend over several countries. Even just one case could be considered an outbreak.
