Across
- 1. an individual who is highly contagious and capable of transmitting a communicable disease to an unusually large number of uninfected individuals.
- 3. the broader name for the family of viruses that includes COVID-19
- 5. a new term for safe practices for preventing the spread of the disease.
- 9. the first documented case of an infectious disease
- 10. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (abbreviation)
- 11. a person identified as the first to become infected with an illness or disease in an outbreak.
- 12. an individual affected with the first known case of an infectious disease in a region or family.
Down
- 2. to refrain from any contact with other individuals for a period of time (such as two weeks)
- 4. 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 travelled to an area where the disease has any documented cases.
- 6. a new name for a new disease, coined as an abbreviated form of coronavirus disease 2019.
- 7. 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 disease.
- 8. Middle East respiratory syndrome(abbreviation)