BIO 202 Exam 5 Epidemiology 1 (Terms, Transmission, and
Pathogens).
The father of epidemiology - ✔✔✔ John Snow
The person that proved that specific microorganisms can cause specific diseases
- determined that microbe X causes disease Y - ✔✔✔ Koch
When you're trying to decide what microbe ______ a disease according to Koch, the three
things you have to do are:
1. identify it (the name)
2. Look at the virulence factors
3. Look at the genes - ✔✔✔ causes
_______ means death.
- has gone down due to infectious disease - ✔✔✔ mortality
The number of new cases of a disease.
- If I am telling you that there are 40 new cases of covid on campus - ✔✔✔ incidence
The total number of cases of a disease.
- If I tell you there are 500 total cases of covid on campus since covid started - ✔✔✔
prevalence
A disease characterized by regional and periodic outbreaks
- ex. localized to the USA and pops up every so often - ✔✔✔ endemic
A disease that is wide-spread across a few countries or so with a rapid outbreak - ✔✔✔
epidemic
A disease that is widespread across the entire word with a rapid outbreak - ✔✔✔ pandemic
_____-_____ is when people all get sick from the same location/source.
- If all of us decided to go to a bar and we all get sick from that bar this outbreak would be
described as this - ✔✔✔ common-source
______ is when there is no common source for an outbreak and it spreads person-to-
person.
- If a cold is spreading by human contact around campus, this outbreak would be described
as this - ✔✔✔ Propagated
3 things that have (increased/decreased) infectious disease:
1. vaccines
2. hand-washing
Pathogens).
The father of epidemiology - ✔✔✔ John Snow
The person that proved that specific microorganisms can cause specific diseases
- determined that microbe X causes disease Y - ✔✔✔ Koch
When you're trying to decide what microbe ______ a disease according to Koch, the three
things you have to do are:
1. identify it (the name)
2. Look at the virulence factors
3. Look at the genes - ✔✔✔ causes
_______ means death.
- has gone down due to infectious disease - ✔✔✔ mortality
The number of new cases of a disease.
- If I am telling you that there are 40 new cases of covid on campus - ✔✔✔ incidence
The total number of cases of a disease.
- If I tell you there are 500 total cases of covid on campus since covid started - ✔✔✔
prevalence
A disease characterized by regional and periodic outbreaks
- ex. localized to the USA and pops up every so often - ✔✔✔ endemic
A disease that is wide-spread across a few countries or so with a rapid outbreak - ✔✔✔
epidemic
A disease that is widespread across the entire word with a rapid outbreak - ✔✔✔ pandemic
_____-_____ is when people all get sick from the same location/source.
- If all of us decided to go to a bar and we all get sick from that bar this outbreak would be
described as this - ✔✔✔ common-source
______ is when there is no common source for an outbreak and it spreads person-to-
person.
- If a cold is spreading by human contact around campus, this outbreak would be described
as this - ✔✔✔ Propagated
3 things that have (increased/decreased) infectious disease:
1. vaccines
2. hand-washing
