A disease in your body that is caused by a bacteria or a virus.
infection
An outbreak of a disease that spreads quickly and affects many individuals at the same time.
epidemic
A feeling of illness or physical change, e.g. sore throat, headache, cough
symptoms
To clean (something), especially with a chemical, in order to destroy bacteria
to disinfect
To cover, reach, or have an effect on a wider or increasing area.
spread
A person who’s a carrier of a virus but does not show any symptoms – no cough, fever, etc.
asymptomatic
To separate sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick.
isolation
outbreak
This occurs when there is a sudden increase in the number of cases of a disease.
A situation in which people are not allowed to enter or leave a building or area freely because of an emergency
lockdown
They are a type of germ. They're very tiny, and when they get inside your body, they can make you sick.
virus
To stay away from someone or something.
avoid
To separate and restrict the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.
quarantine
(an) illness of people, animals, and plants, caused by an infection.
disease
To restrict when and where people can gather to stop or slow the spread of infectious diseases.
Includes limiting large groups of people coming together, closing buildings and canceling events
Social Distancing
The use of drug to cure a person of an illness.
treatment
The time between getting a virus and showing the first symptoms.
incubation period
A type of epidemic describes a disease that affects an entire country or the whole world.
pandemic
Small drops of liquid
droplets
To stop something from happening or of stopping someone from doing something.
prevention
This new virus and disease were unknown before the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
COVID-19
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