Disease Lab

Means you have the illness

• Exposure
• Infected
• Contagion
• Quarantine

Any disease-causing agent

• Carrier 
• Vector
• Mutagen
• Pathogen

A disease or illness that shows up in more cases than an epidemic and has to affect the entire world population 

• Pandemic
• Epidemic
• Outbreak
• Mutagen

To separate individuals that are known to be affected by a disease from those who are not; done to stop spread of infectious diseases

• Sanitation
• Quarantine
• Infected
• Contagion

Millions of people living all over the world have cancer. Is cancer a pandemic?

• No, because cancer is not contagious.
• No, because cancer is not always fatal.
• Yes, because millions of people have cancer.
• Yes, because people all over the world have cancer.

a member of a population who is at risk of becoming infected by a disease.

• Individual Susceptibility
• Carrier
• Contagion
• Exposure

What is a pathogen?

• a doctor who specializes in curing diseases
• microbe that are beneficial when present
• a special machine that is used to grow microbes
• a small living organism that can cause disease

If someone is immune to chickenpox what does this mean?

• The person was vaccinated
• The person is contagious
• The person is resistant to getting the disease
• The person has been quarantined

Why is it important to quarantine patients of infectious diseases?

• To learn more about the disease
• To stop the disease from spreading
• To cure the individual
• To expose more people to the infected person

When a new disease spreads what is the first thing epidemiologists determine?

• How the disease spreads
• How many people are infected
• How to treat the disease
• What are the symptoms of the disease