Monitoring and Preventing Disease Key Terms
Across
- 2. outbreak over wide geographical area
- 4. similar to an epidemic except that it is used more for limited geographical areas
- 6. interact with the immune system and often produce an immune response similar to that produced by the natural infection, but they do not subject the recipient to the disease and its potential complication
- 8. the ability of the human body to tolerate the presence of material indigenous to the body and eliminate foreign material
- 9. disease that occurs at an expected level in a population or in a certain location
Down
- 1. represents, on average, the number of people that a single infected person can be expected to transmit that disease to
- 3. unexpectedly large number of cases of an illness, specific health related behavior, or event in a particular population
- 5. type of immunity that is protection provided by products produced by an anima; or him and transferred to another human, usually by injection. It often provides effective protection, but this protection wanes with time, usually within a few weeks or months
- 7. type of immunity that is protection that is produced by the person own immune system. This type of immunity is usually permeant