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Ebola and Contact Tracing
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color cloud posted on 2014/10/07Ever wondered how public health officials track diseases like Ebola? This video dives into the fascinating world of contact tracing and isolation protocols used by the CDC in West Africa, showing you real-world field epidemiology in action! You'll pick up essential vocabulary and see how simple sentence structures are used to explain critical public health information.
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disease
US /dɪˈziz/
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UK /dɪˈzi:z/
- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
- A disorder of structure or function in a plant, especially one caused by a pathogen.
- Transitive Verb
- To affect with disease; to corrupt or sicken.
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US /sprɛd/
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UK /spred/
- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
- The distance between two things
- Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)
- To place over a large area; to cover a large area
- (Of ideas, gossip) to pass to and affect others
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More direct
US /dɪˈrɛkt, daɪ-/
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UK /də'rekt/
- Transitive Verb
- To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
- To show the way by conducting or leading
- Adverb
- Coming straight from something
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More contact
US /ˈkɑnˌtækt/
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UK /'kɒntækt/
- Adjective
- Touching or feeling something
- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- Touching or feeling something
- Object that allows electricity to run through it
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