Coronavirus vocabulary

A category of viruses that can cause fever, breathing difficulties, pneumonia and diarrhea

• stomach bug

• Coronavirus

• chicken pox

Any disease that spreads from animals to people

• chicken pox

• small pox

• zoonosis

A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.

• disaster

• transmission

• epidemic

A worldwide epidemic

• disaster

• epidemic

• pandemic

Transfer, such as of a disease, from one person to another

• transmission

• epidemic

• pandemic

virus particles are _________ than droplets

• smaller

• larger

The average number of secondary cases that are caused by exposure

• rate of transmission

• daily average

• yearly average

When a person infected with a virus passes it on to a high number of people

• Super-spreading event

• viral shedding

• fomite

The release of virus particles that can spread the virus to others

• super-spreading event

• fomite

• viral shedding

Showing no symptoms of disease

• symptomatic

• asymptomatic