Sports Medicine Lesson 4 Flashcards
The time from when someone gets infected to when symptoms start is called the?
Incubation period
What is the infectious period?
The time in which a person can spread disease
Who are carriers?
People that have no symptoms but can still infect other
What is case fatality/mortality rate?
A measure of the severity of a disease - proportion of people that die from the infection
Define basic reproductive rate/ R-Nougat?
Describes how infectious a disease is; the average number of secondary cases that occurs as a result of one infected person
Define Secondary Attack rate:
Proportion of people exposed who get the disease
What are bloodborne pathogens and give 3 examples?
Microorganisms that are present in human
blood and can infect and cause disease in
people who are exposed to blood containing
the pathogen
Ex. HIV, Hepatitis B &C
What is AIDS caused by and what it do?
It’s caused by HIV and y damaging your immune system, HIV interferes with your body’s ability to fight the organisms that cause disease.
What category does HIV goes into?
STI (its a sexually transmitted disease)
How can HIV be spread?
- By sexual fluids
- Infected blood
- Mother to child during pregnancy
- childbirth
- breastfeeding
What happens when you get HIV
HIV weakens your immune system over the years and by then it’s turned into AIDS
Is there any cure for AIDS?
No but there are medications that can dramatically slow the progression of the disease.
What is viral hepatitis
Its an inflammation of the liver due to a viral infection
What are the 3 main types of hepatitis
Hepatitis A,B,C
How is Hepatitis A transmitted?
Ingestion of contaminated food & water
Direct contact with an infected person