FMSC 280 Study Guide - Final Guide: Helminths, High-Density Lipoprotein, Chickenpox

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Modifiable host factor: risk factors that can be changed or treated: high blood pressure, smoking, cholesterol, ldl and hdl cholesterol, diabetes. Unmodifiable host factor: risk factors you cannot change,: age, race and ethnicity, gender and family history. Communicable disease: a disease that is transmitted through direct contact with an infected individual or indirectly through a vector. One celled organism, spread by contamination, person to person. E. coli: a bacterium commonly found in the intestines of humans other animals, where it usually causes no harm. Virus: a cellular, not cells and cannot reproduce on their own. Protozoa: complex single cell organisms that live in water. 13. what are some unmodifiable risk factors for the transmission of. Young children pandemic to occur? at a particular time. What 3 events have to be in place for a. Epidemic: widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community. Pandemic: a disease prevalent over a whole country or world.