disease spread
Pathogen moving between hosts
Disease spread is the transmission of illness from one host to another or through a population.
The phrase covers all mechanisms—airborne droplets, contaminated surfaces, bodily fluids, vectors like mosquitoes: Crowded conditions accelerate disease spread.
Public health measures aim to limit disease spread through vaccination, quarantine, and sanitation.
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- flatten the curveSpread outbreak over longer period
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- stay homeNot go anywhere
aerosolized · airborne · superspreader · vaccination · public health · zoonotic · population density · contact tracing · close contact · R-naught · herd immunity · vector-borne · contact · spillover · transmission · droplet · incubation period · sick day
- public healthimmunization, health education, epidemiology, community health, health policy
- epidemicsepidemic, pandemic, outbreak, Black Death, cholera
- health crisespandemic, epidemic, outbreak, health emergency, public health emergency
- Black Deathbubonic plague, Black Death, plague doctors, buboes, Yersinia pestis
- crop problemsblight, drought damage, root rot, wilting, insect damage
- forest damageforest fire, forest fires, wildfires, bark beetle, bark beetles