Across
- 3. is the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person ("contacts") and subsequent collection of further information about these contacts.
- 4. (“Middle East respiratory syndrome”)
- 5. is a new term for most of us, but has become ubiquitous in coverage of safe practices for preventing the spread of the disease
- 7. (“severe acute respiratory syndrome”)
- 9. means the practice of identifying and monitoring individuals who may have had contact with an infectious person as a means of controlling the spread of a communicable disease.
- 10. refer to an individual who is highly contagious and capable of transmitting a communicable disease to an unusually large number of uninfected individuals.
Down
- 1. is defined as a person identified as the first to become infected with an illness or disease in an outbreak
- 2. refers to the spread of a contagious disease to individuals in a particular geographic location who have no known contact with other infected individuals or who have not recently traveled to an area where the disease has any documented cases.
- 6. leave of absence, especially that granted to a member of the services or a missionary.
- 8. means to refrain from any contact with other individuals for a period of time (such as two weeks) during the outbreak of a contagious disease usually by remaining in one's home and limiting contact with family members.