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BASIC CONCEPTS

Antiviral Pharmacological agents used to cure an infection or disease
caused by a virus. It is used in order to inhibit or destroy viral
infection.

Epidemiology A branch of science that studies the distribution and
frequency of health and disease conditions in the society and
the factors affecting them.

Case fatality rate Proportion of deaths from a certain disease compared to the
total number of people diagnosed with the disease. Usually
expressed as a percentage. One of the main indicators which
represent a measure of disease severity.

Influenza (flu) A respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses.

Isolation Physical measures taken to prevent microorganisms of
infected people from being spread to other patients, to
people who are not sick and to healthcare professionals.

Quarantine Isolation of patients. The whole of physical measures and
practices in order to keep an animal or person that might
have a contagious or infectious disease apart from other
people for a period of time equal to the longest incubation
period of the disease concerned.

Confirmed case A laboratory-confirmed, accurate case.

Morbidity The number or rate of the diseased and diagnosed patients
within a population at a particular time.

Pandemic Worldwide spread of an infectious disease.

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