infectee
Carrier of illness
A person who has been infected, especially with a disease or pathogen.
The term appears in epidemiology and public health contexts to distinguish those who receive an infection from those who transmit it: Each infectee was traced back to a single superspreader event.
The word parallels other -ee formations like employee or trainee, marking the recipient of an action.
One who endures hardship
- afflictedSuffering from something harmful
- strickenSeriously affected by adversity
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- exposedOut in open
at-risk · immunocompromised · elderly · susceptible · high-risk · recipient · unfortunate · symptomatic
Identification of illness
- symptomsIndicators of disease
- treatmentCare for an ailment
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
isolation · incubation · viral load · positive · exposure · testing · contact tracing · hospitalization
Container or instance
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- transmissionSending of information
spread · cluster · cohort · population · surveillance · notification · reporting · statistics
Diseased without outward signs
- transmitterSignal-emitting device
- spreaderTool for distribution
- shedderOne that casts off
- vectorQuantity with direction
host · reservoir · silent · unwitting · superspreader · patient zero · contagious · symptomatic
sufferer
One who endures hardship
- afflictedSuffering from something harmful
- strickenSeriously affected by adversity
- vulnerableOpen to attack
exposed · at-risk · immunocompromised · elderly · susceptible · high-risk · recipient · unfortunate · symptomatic · severe
diagnosis
Identification of illness
quarantine · isolation · incubation · viral load · positive · exposure · testing · contact tracing · hospitalization · prognosis
case
Container or instance
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
transmission · spread · cluster · cohort · population · surveillance · notification · reporting · statistics · mortality
asymptomatic
Diseased without outward signs
- transmitterSignal-emitting device
- spreaderTool for distribution
- shedderOne that casts off
vector · host · reservoir · silent · unwitting · superspreader · patient zero · contagious · symptomatic · presymptomatic
- ear infectionInflamed auditory canal
- sinus infectionInflamed nasal cavity illness
- infectious diseasesPathogen-caused transmissible conditions
- viral infectionDisease caused by microbes
- eye infectionPathogen invading ocular tissue
- kidney infectionBacterial illness of renal organ
infect, infection, disinfect, infected, infectious, disinfected, infecting, infections, uninfected