a substance used to protect humans and animals from a disease
VACCINE
AN ADJECTIVE describing a disease that can pass from person to person, usually by direct contact; describing a person with such a disease. (BEGINNING WITH LETTER "C")
CONTAGIOUS
isolation and monitoring of people who seem healthy but may have been exposed to an infectious disease to see if they develop symptoms
QUARANTINE
practice of encouraging people to minimize contact and closeness, whether by banning large or even small groups/meetings (football matches, nightclubs), or by maintaining a minimum distance between people (for example one metre or two metre
SOCIAL DISTANCING
the time from a person’s first exposure to a disease to the time when symptoms develop. ____________________ PERIOD
INCUBATION PERIOD
occurrence of a particular disease throughout a whole country or the world.
PANDEMIC
official name for the novel coronavirus disease that emerged in China in 2019.
COVID-19
to affect a human or animal with a disease-causing organism. IN_______________
INFECT
AN ADJECTIVE describing a disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans. (ZOO_______________)
ZOONOTIC
occurrence of a particular disease in a large number of people in a particular area. E_________________
EPIDEMIC
the person identified as the first to become infected with a disease in an outbreak. PATIENT ______________________
PATIENT ZERO
to isolate oneself; put oneself in quarantine, away from other people
SELF-ISOLATION
The transfer of a disease from animal to human or from human to human
TRANSMISSION
AN ADJECTIVE describing something like, caused by, or relating to a virus or viruses
VIRAL
To identify an illness by examining the symptoms : D_______________
diagnose
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