vector-borne zoonotic diseases, caused by a tick-borne virus (Orthonairovirus) of the Nairoviridae family (Order Bunyavirales); CCHF virus is transmitted to people either by...

A known disease which occurs intermittently in an irregular or haphazard pattern.

The proportion of persons with a particular condition (cases) who die from that condition. The denominator is the number of incident cases; the numerator is the number of...

vector-borne disease, spread by mosquitoes, Aedes, not zoonotic, can be found only in humans. Monkeies serve as a sentinel species for yellow fever, which then spread to men...

See "reservoir"

Serovar is a synonym for serotype. That is a serologically and antigenically distinct variety of microorganism, like a subgroup of a species of bacteria. In other words, they...

The potential for a contagious disease to spread from person to person in a population.

See "serotype"

Classification of cases is based on clinical criteria, epidemiological link, and presumptive laboratory criteria

A given segment of a society or a population.

Reg. 178/2002: means the ability to trace and follow a food, feed, food-producing animal or substance intended to be, or expected to be incorporated into a food or feed, through...

Term not used in this sector

The period between inoculation and appearance of visible symptoms.

is the domain of descriptive epidemiology, which involves the analysis of disease patterns according to the characteristics of person, place and time. In other words,...

Any of a variety of measures (e.g. mortality rate) that indicate the state of health of a given population. A variable susceptible to direct measurement that reflects the state...

The likelihood of the occurrence and the likely magnitude of the biological and economic consequences of an adverse event or effect to animal or human health.

Any organism (vertebrate or invertebrate) that functions as a carrier of an infectious agent between organisms of a different species.

The real-time exchange of information, advice and opinions among experts, community leaders or officials and the people who are at risk or who have a direct influence on risk...

One or more of the first wave of cases serves as a source of infection for subsequent cases and those subsequent cases, in turn, serve as sources for later cases. The shape of...

Personal characteristics of a person or group (e.g., age, sex, race/ethnicity, residence, and occupation) demographic information is used in descriptive epidemiology to...