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    Biological Vector

    a vector in which an agent undergoes some kind of development or multiplication (biological)
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    Virulence

    The ability of any infectious agent to produce disease. The virulence of a microorganism (such as a bacterium or virus) is a measure of the severity of the disease it is capable...
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    Vector

    an invertebrate animal (usually an arthropod) that transmits infectious agents to vertebrates. In infectious disease epidemiology, an insect or any living carrier that...
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    Definitive Host

    the species host in which the sexual reproduction phase of a parasite takes place (synonym with final host)
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    Reservoir (Host)

    a host which is a common source of an infectious agent to other animals, including humans.
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    Simulid

    sin. black fly, blackfly, pl. black flies, blackflies. Small size flies, members of Simuliidae family (order Diptera). Females of majority of species require a blood meal for...
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    Establishment

    is the perpetuation, for the foreseeable future, of an invasive species within an area following introduction.
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    Pattern of disease occurrence: Sporadic

    A known disease which occurs intermittently in an irregular or haphazard pattern.
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    Yellow Fever

    vector-borne disease, spread by mosquitoes, Aedes, not zoonotic, can be found only in humans. Monkeies serve as a sentinel species for yellow fever, which then spread to men...
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    Reservoir Host

    See "reservoir"
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    Comunity

    A given segment of a society or a population.
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    Traceability

    Reg. 178/2002: means the ability to trace and follow a food, feed, food-producing animal or substance intended to be, or expected to be incorporated into a food or feed, through...
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    Incubation Period

    The period between inoculation and appearance of visible symptoms.
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    Distribution (of Disease)

    is the domain of descriptive epidemiology, which involves the analysis of disease patterns according to the characteristics of person, place and time. In other words,...
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    Health Indicator

    Any of a variety of measures (e.g. mortality rate) that indicate the state of health of a given population. A variable susceptible to direct measurement that reflects the state...
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    Risk Communication

    The real-time exchange of information, advice and opinions among experts, community leaders or officials and the people who are at risk or who have a direct influence on risk...
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    Propagated Outbreak

    One or more of the first wave of cases serves as a source of infection for subsequent cases and those subsequent cases, in turn, serve as sources for later cases. The shape of...
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    Demographic Information

    Personal characteristics of a person or group (e.g., age, sex, race/ethnicity, residence, and occupation) demographic information is used in descriptive epidemiology to...
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    Risk Management

    Means the process of identifying, selecting and implementing measures that can be applied to reduce the level of risk.
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    Odds Ratio (OR)

    Odds are expressed as the probability of an event occurring divided by the probability of the event not occurring. The odds ratio is a tool to show how strongly having or not...
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