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quarantine
Health care; Flu prevention & treatment
The period of isolation decreed to control the spread of disease. Before the era of antibiotics, quarantine was one of the few available means of halting the spread of infectious disease. It is still ...
prophylactic
Health care; Flu prevention & treatment
A medical procedure or practice that prevents or protects against a disease or condition (eg, vaccines, antibiotics, drugs).
pre-pandemic vaccine
Health care; Flu prevention & treatment
A vaccine created to protect against currently circulating H5N1 avian influenza virus strains with the expectation that it would provide at least some protection against new virus strains that might ...
panzootic
Health care; Flu prevention & treatment
The worldwide outbreak of a disease in animals in numbers clearly in excess of normal. See pandemic and epizootic.
parasite
Health care; Flu prevention & treatment
An organism living in, with, or on another organism.
pandemic
Health care; Flu prevention & treatment
The worldwide outbreak of a disease in humans in numbers clearly in excess of normal. See panzootic and epidemic.
