Across
- 2. Awareness that unseen life-threatening injuries or illness may exists.
- 3. A disease that can be spread from one person or species to another.
- 7. The strength or ability of a pathogen to produce disease.
- 10. An inflammation of the meningeal coverings of the brain and spinal cord; can be highly contagious.
- 12. The general type of Illness a patient is experiencing.
- 13. Occurs when new cases of a disease in a human population substantially exceed the number expected based on recent experience.
- 14. Emergencies that are the result of physical forces applied to the body; injuries.
Down
- 1. Emergencies that are not caused by an outside force; illnesses or conditions.
- 4. An inflammation of the meningeal coverings of the brain and spinal cord; it is usually caused by a virus or a bacterium.
- 5. A common virus that is asymptomatic in 80% of people carrying it, but characterized by small blisters on the lips or genitals in the symptomatic infections.
- 6. A chronic bacterial disease, that usually affects the lungs but can also affect other organs such as the brain and kidneys; it is spread by cough and can lie dormant in a person's lungs for decades and the reactivate.
- 8. A medical condition caused by the growth and spread of small, harmful organism within the body.
- 9. An outbreak that occurs on a global scale.
- 11. A virus that has crossed the animal/human barrier and infected humans and that kills thousands of people every year.