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Ebola Related Terms

Category: Health

Organization: European Parliament

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Number of Blossarys: 5

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The US agency charged with tracking and investigating public health trends. French: Centres pour le contrôle et la prévention des maladies (CDC). Spanish: Centros para el Control y la Prevención de ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Diseases

Critical incidence specified a priori, which, if exceeded, triggers declaration of an epidemic or predetermined public health responses. French: seuil épidémique.

Domain: Health care; Category: Diseases

A family of viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever. Filoviruses have single-stranded RNA as their genetic material. Ebola virus and the Marburg virus are both filoviruses. French: Filoviridae. Spanish: ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Diseases

The first case in a family or other defined group to come to the attention of the investigator. French: cas repère; cas de référence. Spanish: caso índice.

Domain: Health care; Category: Diseases

Any departure, subjective or objective, from a state of physiological or psychological wellbeing. In this sense sickness, illness and morbid condition are similarly defined and synonymous; can be ...

Domain: Health care; Category: Diseases

WHO's approach to risk communication in outbreaks, with the objective of rapid promotion of outbreak control and mitigation of social disruption [...]

Domain: Health care; Category: Diseases

Average number of infected, generated by an infectious person entering a totally susceptible population. French: taux de reproduction de base. Spanish: tasa básica de reproducción.

Domain: Biology; Category: Biochemistry

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