Pandemic, epidemic, isolation, quarantine, animal-human interface: When it comes to the coronavirus, there are certain phrases and words that keep popping up in the news. Here's a breakdown of what they mean ⤵️
to the time symptoms are developed."This is important clinically," says Nolan."It helps inform how long a person should be isolated to prevent spread of infection."Separating infected and sick individuals from healthy individuals. Hospitals commonly put sick patients in isolation to prevent the spread of disease.The separation or restriction of movement of individuals who appear to be healthy but may have been exposed to an infectious disease to see if they become sick.
The length of the quarantine depends on the incubation period for the disease. During the Ebola outbreak, for example,Identifying people who may have come into contact with a person infected with a disease during ."Once you know what the incubation period is – the time that you're exposed to the virus to the time you develop symptoms – you ask the infected person and say, who have you been in personal close contact with in that time period?" says Nolan.
, small amounts of pathogen DNA are amplified — or copied --- to sufficient levels for detection. Studies of isolated pieces of DNA are nearly impossible without PCR amplification., pronounced"R naught," the term refers to a number that indicates the infectiousness of a virus or a pathogen in a particular location."For every one person infected, how many others will be infected?" says Nolan. For COVID-19, the Ris currently estimated at 2.
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