Infectious Disease Control Terminology

noun A person or entity responsible for managing or overseeing quarantine procedures for individuals, animals, or items entering a specific area.

• The quarantine handler is responsible for ensuring that all incoming passengers follow the proper isolation protocols.
• The quarantine handler has to deal with all the new arrivals and make sure they stay in quarantine.
• Being a quarantine handler means you have to babysit all the people who are supposed to be isolating.
• As a quarantine handler, you are like a gatekeeper, keeping potential threats at bay.

noun a practice recommended by public health officials to prevent the spread of contagious diseases by maintaining a physical distance between individuals

• It is important to practice social distancing to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
• Let's make sure to keep our distance from others and practice social distancing.
• We should all be keeping our space and doing that social distancing thing.
• In a world where connections are valued, social distancing can feel like a barrier.

noun Aeroscepsies is a plural noun referring to the act of examining air or gases for scientific purposes.

• The study of aeroscepsies involves the analysis of air samples for various pollutants.
• I heard that aeroscepsies can help determine the quality of air in a specific location.
• Have you ever tried doing aeroscepsies to check the air around here?
• His mind was like a laboratory conducting aeroscepsies on every thought that entered.