FMSC 280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15-20: Aids, Lyme Disease, Non-Communicable Disease
24 Feb 2016
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Direct transmission: person to person, occurs when a susceptible person touches an infectious person. Airborne transmission occurs when pathogens are in the air and people breath the air. Portal of entry: mouth, eyes, nose or any other part of direct entrance. Reservoir: environmental home for an infectious disease agent. Cycle of infection: how an infectious agent cycles between different species. Intermediate host: a host which is normally used by a parasite in the course of its life cycle in which it may multiple asexually but not sexually. Secondary attack rate: average number of other people that one contagious person infects. Mosquitoes or ticks that cause vector borne infections. Once individuals understand why a behavior is healthy and believe that it is worth the effort to make change, it is easier for them to chose to engage in the behavior. Track infectious disease reports from hospitals and other information sources to look for possible outbreaks or clusters of a disease.
