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Geography of Disease
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Disease : A condition that causes harm or interferes with the normal functioning of a living thing, generally caused by parasites and pathogenic micro-organisms, or possibly due to environmental, nutritional or genetic factors.
Pandemic : A disease prevalent across a wide geographic area such as a country, region or even the world.
Epidemic : When a disease spreads rapidly and affects many people at the same time, resulting in widespread infection, particularly in an area or time when such infections are not common.
Endemic : When a disease is common or peculiar to a specific locality, religion or people.
Epidemiology : The area of medical studies that examines the incidences, possible sources and prevalence of infectious diseases in communities of people.
Infectious Disease : Disease that can be passed from one person or animal to another.
Vector : An organism capable of carrying and transmitting pathogenic bacteria and virus from one subject to another.
Water borne disease : Contracted from either drinking contaminated water or eating food that has been prepared.
Air borne disease : occurs when people breathe in bacteria or viruses attached to dust particles, smoke or water vapor and as a result become ill.
Sexual transmitted disease : passed from a subject to subject transmitted by sexually contact.
Deficiency disease : A term used to describe a range of conditions that people acquire due to lack of food or particular nutrients and vitamins.
SARS : Severe Acute Respiratory System.
AIDS : Acquired immunodeficiency Syndrome.
Antibiotics : A medicine which inhibits the growth or destroys microorganisms of a disease.
Vaccination : A biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. It typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing micro-organisms, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe.
Zoonotic Disease : A pathogen or virus which originates or lives in another animal and trnsfers to people.
Anthropozoonotic Diseases : A disease that is common to some groups of people but able to affect animals.
Geography of Disease
Across:1. | passed from a subject to subject transmitted by sexually contact. | 5. | Acquired immunodeficiency Syndrome. | 9. | Severe Acute Respiratory System. | 13. | The area of medical studies that examines the incidences, possible sources and prevalence of infectious diseases in communities of people. |
| 14. | When a disease is common or peculiar to a specific locality, religion or people. | 15. | A medicine which inhibits the growth or destroys microorganisms of a disease. | 16. | A biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. It typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing micro-organisms, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe. | 17. | A term used to describe a range of conditions that people acquire due to lack of food or particular nutrients and vitamins. |
| | Down:2. | A condition that causes harm or interferes with the normal functioning of a living thing, generally caused by parasites and pathogenic micro-organisms, or possibly due to environmental, nutritional or genetic factors. | 3. | Disease that can be passed from one person or animal to another. | 4. | A disease that is common to some groups of people but able to affect animals. | 6. | A pathogen or virus which originates or lives in another animal and trnsfers to people. | 7. | When a disease spreads rapidly and affects many people at the same time, resulting in widespread infection, particularly in an area or time when such infections are not common. |
| 8. | Contracted from either drinking contaminated water or eating food that has been prepared. | 10. | A disease prevalent across a wide geographic area such as a country, region or even the world. | 11. | An organism capable of carrying and transmitting pathogenic bacteria and virus from one subject to another. | 12. | occurs when people breathe in bacteria or viruses attached to dust particles, smoke or water vapor and as a result become ill. |
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