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- 1. ZERO, Used to describe the first human infected by a viral or bacterial disease in an outbreak.
- 3. Well-defined symptoms that affects a person, plant or animal.
- 5. A machine that supports breathing.
- 8. Showing symptoms.
- 10. The act of preventing something.
- 11. Affected with a disease-causing organism.
- 13. The placement of patients into a prone position so that they are lying on their stomach.
- 14. Make clean and hygienic; disinfect.
- 16. A biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease.
- 18. TRACING, The process of identifying, assessing, and managing people who have been exposed to a disease to prevent onward transmission.
- 20. Likely to be transmitted to people, organisms, and through the environment.
- 22. A person or thing that spreads.
- 24. A device covering the mouth or nose especially to prevent the breathing in of harmful substances
- 26. RATE, The proportion of people who die from a specified disease among all individuals diagnosed with the disease over a certain period of time.
- 28. A person receiving or registered to receive medical treatment.
- 30. A strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- 32. PERIOD, The number of days between when you're infected with something and when you might see symptoms.
- 33. DISTANCING, Keeping a safe place between yourself and other people that are not from your household.
- 36. A qualified practitioner of medicine.
- 37. Can be defined as a complex biological system endowed with the capacity to recognize and tolerate whatever belongs to the self.
- 38. Placing a tube in your throat to help move air in and out of your lungs.
- 39. Branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.
- 40. Specialized clothing or equipment, worn by an employee for protection against infectious materials.
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- 2. An instrument for measuring and indicating temperature.
- 4. The turning point of a disease when an important change takes place, indicating either recovery or death.
- 6. NORMAL, A new way of living and going about our lives, work and interactions with other people.
- 7. Means there are no symptoms.
- 9. An infectious agent of small size and simple composition that can multiply only in living cells of animals, plants or bacteria.
- 12. Reducing risk of loss from the occurrence of any undesirable event.
- 15. The sudden or violent start of something unwelcome, such as disease.
- 17. A covering for all part of the face.
- 19. RATE, A measure of the frequency of occurrence of death in a defined population during a specified interval.
- 21. Having been made impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance.
- 23. A state of isolation or restricted access instituted as a security measure.
- 25. CASE, Giving grounds for reasonable opinion or belief.
- 27. Capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or subject.
- 29. The rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time.
- 31. CURVE, A visual representation in the form of a graph or chart depicting the onset and progression of an outbreak of disease.
- 34. The state of being in a place or situation that is separate from others.
- 35. A physical or mental feature which is regarded as indicating a condition of disease.