Infectious Diseases

3. a measure of disease that allows us to determine a person's likelihood of having a disease
5. an infectious microbe consisting of a segment of nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protein coat.
7. study outbreaks of diseases, the causes, locations, and how various communities are affected, utilizing relative information to aid in the prevention of future outbreaks.
9. The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease.
10. tiny, single-celled living organisms.
11. a sudden disease outbreak that affects a large number of people in a particular region, community, or population.
12. the action of structures and substances that are naturally present
13. They help your immune system fight germs and protect you from disease.
14. a disease which can be transmitted to humans from animals.
16. is the passing of a pathogen causing communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a particular individual or group
17. a quantity that has both magnitude and direction.

1. immunity that occurs in response to exposure to a particular antigen
2. estimated number of newly infected during a specific time frame
4. when any person, animal, arthropod, plant, soil or substance (or combination of these) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies.
6. a rapid, sometimes exponential, growth in the number of infections, coupled with a widening geographical spread.
8. Can be defined as the body’s ability to recognize and destroy pathogens
10. produce antibodies, antigen-presenting cells, supporting other mononuclear cells, and contributing to inflammatory pathways directly.f
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