Epidemiology and Infection Spread Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• endemic: associated with an infectious disease that occurs frequently in a specific geographical locale
• vertical: when illness or disease is passed from mother to child 'in utero'.
• endogenous: source of illness found or coming from within the body
• pathogen: organism capable of causing disease
• disease: illness due to cell damage, associated with signs and symptoms
• epidemic: associated with an infectious disease when large numbers occur suddenly at the same time
• opportunistic: taking 'advantage' of a situation to cause disease
• exogenous: source of illness found or coming from outside the body
• mortality: the rate of deaths in a given area or time period, often from a particular cause
• prevalence: the proportion (or percentage) of a population having an infectious disease
• arthropods: invertebrates that can be used in specific microbe dispersal (parasites)
• morbidity: the rate of a disease in a population
• direct contact: when agent causing illness is passed to another via personal interaction (6,7)
• zoonosis: an infection associated with an animal reservoir
• vehicle: inanimate object or material involved in indirect microbe dispersal
• fomite: often household items involved in indirect microbe dispersal
• infection: process happening after microbes not normally present in/on the body invade
• ukhsa: abbreviation for agency that collates data on illness in england and wales
• nosocomial: an infection acquired in hospital
• carrier: a symptomless individual capable of carrying/shedding microbes
• transmission: the manner in which infectious microbes acquire a new host
• incidence: the number of new cases of an infectious disease in a susceptible population at that time point