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| CDC | Center for Disease Control & Prevention; government public health agency |
| Location of CDC: | Atlanta, Georgia |
| a bacterial infection of small intestine that causes severe diarrhea: | cholera |
| A composite measure of years of life lost because of premature death & equivalent years lost because of serious injury/disability: | Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) |
| A physical or mental incapacity, either congenital or resulting fronm an injury or illness: | disability |
| A disease occurring suddenly in a region in excessive numbers which exceed normal: | epidemic |
| Name of scientist who traces spread of disease through a population: | Epidemiologist |
| The theory that microbes cause disease (often by infection through air): | germ theory |
| GRID | Gay-related immune deficiency (initial name for AIDS) |
| HDI | Human Development Index; measures average health, education, & income |
| HIV | Human Immunodeficiency virus (virus that causes AIDS) |
| The system that help body resist infection and disease: | immune system |
| Term that refers to number of deaths of new cases of condition that arises during specific period of time: | incidence |
| LDCs | Least developed Countries (lowest national incomes of all countries) |
| Term that refers to incidence of disease or rate of illness in a specified group: | morbidity rate |
| The belief that diseases such as cholera and Black Death were caused by noxious clouds of "bad air": | miasma theory |
| Term for death rate: | mortality rate |
| Worldwide outbreak of disease: | pandemic |
| Infections caused by organisms that typically don't cause illness in healthy people: | opportunistic infections |
| Pertussis - | a bacterial infection of respiratory tract characterized by whooping-type of cough |
| Term that refers to a measure of the proportion of persons in population with a certain disease at a given time: | prevalence |
| Diseases that are considered to be of great public health importance: | reportable (Notifiable) diseases |
| Viruses that carry their genetic material in form of RNA rather than DNA: | retrovirus |
| T-cells: | type of white blood cells which mature in thymus |
| A drug which was given to women during early pregnancy for morning sickness and resulted in severe birth directs: | thalidomide |
| YLL | Years lost to premature mortality |
| YDL | years lost to disability |
