Match the term with the best descriptor.
A. diseases affecting many persons in a community, area, or region at the same time, arising from a common source and clearly in excess of normal expectancy
B. factor that causes a disease
C. study of how and why diseases occur in different groups of human beings
D. epidemics that spread quickly over a wide geographic area
E. living being upon whom the agent acts
F. professional involved in the study of epidemiology
G. agent capable of transmitting a pathogen from one organism to another organism
H. habitually peculiar to a particular locality
A. epidemics
B. agent
C. epidemiology
D. pandemics
E. host
F. epidemiologists
G. vector
H. endemic
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