Disesase Tracker

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Across
  1. 3. person-to-person transmission
  2. 7. acts of terrorism that use toxic effects of chemicals
  3. 10. group exposed to a common noxious influence, such as the release of noxious gases
  4. 11. developed for collecting particular types of data
  5. 13. water-borne disease
  6. 15. trends in commonly occurring diseases or key health indicators are monitored
  7. 17. Clue
  8. 18. does not have a common source and spreads gradually from person to person over more than one incubation period, such as the spread of TB
  9. 20. the nurse names the disease or the event and gathers data about it to try to determine the magnitude of the problem
  10. 26. irregular pattern with occasional cases found at irregular intervals
  11. 27. ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of specific health data for use in public health
  12. 30. interval during which one person can pass on a disease to another person
  13. 31. food-borne disease
  14. 32. a common source followed by secondary exposures related to person-to-person contact, as in the spreading of influenza
Down
  1. 1. acts of terrorism that use viruses, bacteria, fungi, or toxins
  2. 2. time between exposure and first signs/symptoms of disease
  3. 4. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus are two examples of Staph.
  4. 5. epidemic spread of the problem over several countries or continents
  5. 6. all persons become ill at the same time during one incubation period
  6. 8. Streptococcus pyogenes group A
  7. 9. parent to offspring via sperm, placenta, milk, vaginal canal during birth
  8. 12. a disease or event found to be present in a population
  9. 14. implies a highly prevalent problem that is commonly acquired early in life; prevalence of problem decreases as age increases; malaria is an example in many communities
  10. 16. cases may be exposed over a period of days or weeks
  11. 19. vaccine-preventable disease
  12. 21. a persistently high number of cases
  13. 22. occurrence of a disease within a certain area is in excess of the expected; may be called the “outbreak”
  14. 23. case reports or lab reports sent to local health department and then forwarded to state HD
  15. 24. tick-borne illness
  16. 25. carried by rodents and causing various febrile hemorrhagic diseases, often with kidney damage or failure.
  17. 28. a Crossword Puzzle!
  18. 29. acquired immunodeficiency syndrome