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Vaccines
These types of medicines are designed to protect people from contracting certain diseases and to represent protection.
Pull the Pump Handle
The author uses this phrase, a reference to an action during a cholera outbreak in London in the 1800s, to mean finding a source of an outbreak and stopping it immediately.
Toxic Shock Syndrome
One of the authors did extensive work in tracing and identifying the causes for this sometimes fatal illness early in the author's career; the illness was linked to a particular kind of tampon use.
Contact Tracing
This phrase refers to the work public health officials and investigators perform in an effort to figure out how and when an outbreak of illness started, how it may have spread, and which particular people were infected.
Superspreaders
This word refers to people who infect many others with an illness.
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
These types of pathogens...
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