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Acute Effect: an immideate or rapid harmful reaction to an exposure
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Antagonistic Interactions: can reduce harmful effects of toxins
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Bioaccumulation: in which some molecules are absorbed and stored in specific organs or tissue at higher than normal levels
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Biological Hazards: Type of hazard that can infect humans from contact with over 1,400 different types of pathogens (bacteria, viruses, parasites, protozoa, and fungi)
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Biomagnification: a related factor in which levels of some potential toxins in the environment become magnified because they travel through the food chain. i.e: murcery
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Bioterrorism: involves the deliberate release of disease-causing bacteria or virus into the air, water supply, or food supply of concentrated urcan populations.
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Bisphenol-A: Chemical building block in certain plastics used in a variety of products such as dental fillings, baby bottles, and beverage cans.
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Carcinogens: chemicals or types of radiation that can cause or promote cancer
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CDC: a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services
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Chemical Hazards: from harmful chemicals in air, water, soil, and food.
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Chronic Effect: a permanent or long lasting consequence from exposure to a single dose or to repeated lower doses of a harmful substance.
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Comparitive Risk Analysis: summarizing the greatest ecological and health risks identified by a panel of scientists acting as advisors of the EPA
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Cultural Hazards: hazard such as smoking, unsafe working conditions, poor diet, drugs, drinking, driving, criminal assaults, unsafe sex, and poverty.
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Degree of Control: a greater force that causes us to demonstrate a certain level of control
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Dose: the amount of a substance a person has ingested, inhaled, or absorbed through the skin.
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Ecological or Conservation Medicine: study that is devoted to tracking down the connections between wildlife and humans, and looking for ways to slow and prevent the spread of such disease
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Endocrine Disruptors: chemicals that disrupt normal hormone functions.
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EPA: the environmental protection agency
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Epidemic: A large scale outbreak of an infectious disease in an area or country
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Fear of the Unknown: The fear that most individuals have of new technology, getting older, or anything of the like
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Gender Benders: akin to hormone mimics, but they can disrupt sexual reproduction and development
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Genetic Makeup: determines an individual's sensitivity to a particular toxin
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H5N1: Commonly known as "bird flu", and is a new avian strain of flu viruses genetically related to the 1918 killer strain emerged in Asia.
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Hazardous Chemical: can cause harm to human or other animals because it is flammable or explosive or it can irritate or damage the skin or lungs, interfere with oxygen uptake or induce allergic reactions.
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Hepatitis B Virus: virus that causes inflammation fo the liver, transmitted through any body fluid, including vaginal secretions, semen and blood. The third largest killer.
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Hormonally active agents: can disrupt the enocrine system, reproductive system or physical/ behavioral disorders.
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Hormone Blockers: disrupt the endocrine system by preventing natural hormones from attatching to their receptors
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Hormones: chemical "messengers" of the endocrine system that are released into the blood
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV): a virus that attacks the human body's immune system and renders it incapable of fighting infectious and other diseases. The world's second biggest killer
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Immune System: the cells, tissues, and organs that protect the body from disease.
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Infectious/transmissable Disease: In an infection, a pathogen in the form of a bacterium, virus, or parasite invades the body and multiplies its cells in the tissues
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Influenza: highly infectious respiratory disease caused by a virus, and is one of the world's biggest killers
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Malaria: an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito
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Metastasis: process in which malignant cells break off from tumors and travel in bodily fluids to other parts of the body. Very harmful
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Methyl Isocyanate: an explosive gas used to produce carbamate pesticides.
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Multiple chemical sensitivity: a condition where an individual is sensitive to many toxins
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Mutagens: agents, such as chemicals or radiation, that damage or alter genetic material in cells
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Neurotoxins: toxins that can harm the human nervous system
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Nipah Virus: spread from pigs to their keepers, causing brain inflammation that killed 40% of the infected people
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Nontransmissable Disease: not caused by living organisms and does not spread from one person to another.
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Oil-or-fat soluble: (usually organic compounds) can penetrate the membranes surrounding cells because the membrances allow similar oil-soluble chemicals to pass through them.
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Oral Rehydration Therapy: A treatment involving administration of a salt and sugar solution to a child who is dehydrated from diarrhea
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Pandemic: A large scale outbreak of an infectious disease that affects the entire planet
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Persistance: a substances resistance to breakdown and tendancy of reapearing
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Persistant Organic Pollutants: a list of dirty pullutants that were banned all around, especially in the european union. The list includes DDT and eight other persistant organic pollutants.
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Phthalates: substance used in softeners or plasticizers, and in products with colyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics and as solvents in many consumer products. May have harmful effects.
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Physical Hazards: hazard such as fire, earthquake, volcanic eruption, flood, tornado, and hurricane
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Poison: any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
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Pollution prevention: The act of not releasing knowingly harmful chemicals into the environment
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Precautionary Principal: When there is reasable but incomplete scientific evidence of significant harm to humans or the environment from a proposed or exixting chemical or technology, we should take action to prevent or reduce the risk instead of waiting for more conclusive evidence.
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Probability: the likelihood that a possible future event will occur in any given instance of the event
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Response: The type and amount of health that results from exposure to a chemical or other agent.
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Risk: probability that something undesirable will happen as a consequence of exposure to a hazard
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Risk Analysis: Identify Risks, gauge probability, estimate impact, find strategy
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Risk Assessment: evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
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Risk Communication: Informing the public about risks
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Risk Management: the process of proactive and ongoing identification, analysis, and response to risk factors
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Severe Acute Respiratory Virus: First appeared in China, and is spread easily from person to person, and quickly turned into life-threatening pneumonia
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Solubulity: ability of a substance to dissolve in another substance, such as sugar dissolving into water, also a measure of the amount of a substance that will dissolve in a certain colume of water
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Synergistic Interactions: multiplies the harmful effects of toxins
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Teterogens: are chemicals that cause harm or birth defects to a fetus or embryo
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Thyroid Disprptors: unnatural chemicals in the body that disrupt hormones resulting in growth, weight, brain, and behavioral disorders
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Toxic Chemicals: can cause temporary or permanent harm or death to humans or animals
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Toxicity: is a measure of how harmful a substance is causing injury, or death to a living organism
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Toxicology: the science that examines the effects of harmful chemicals on humans, wildlife, and ecosystems.
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Water Soluble Toxins: (often inorganic compounds) can move throughout the environment and get into water supplies and the aqueous solutions that surrounds the cells in our body
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West Nile Virus: carried by a species of mosquito that affects people with weak immune systems.
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WHO: World Health Organization
