Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-501
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Definitions
Official statutory text
For the purposes of this article:
(a) The term "disease" means the disturbances of the normal
functions or alterations of the state of the human body resulting in
physical or mental ill health and/or disability.
(b) The term "prevention" means any and all conditions that may
preclude or reduce the possibility of the onset or beginning of
disease.
(c) The term "control" means any and all procedures which
modify, or may modify, favorably the course of disease.
(d) The term "communicable disease" means an illness due to a
specific infectious agent or its toxic products, arising through
transmission of that agent or its products from reservoir to
susceptible host, either directly as from an infected person or
animal, or indirectly through the agent of an intermediate plant or
animal host, a vector, or the inanimate environment. It also means
an infestation by an ectoparasite and similar species.
(a) The term "disease" means the disturbances of the normal
functions or alterations of the state of the human body resulting in
physical or mental ill health and/or disability.
(b) The term "prevention" means any and all conditions that may
preclude or reduce the possibility of the onset or beginning of
disease.
(c) The term "control" means any and all procedures which
modify, or may modify, favorably the course of disease.
(d) The term "communicable disease" means an illness due to a
specific infectious agent or its toxic products, arising through
transmission of that agent or its products from reservoir to
susceptible host, either directly as from an infected person or
animal, or indirectly through the agent of an intermediate plant or
animal host, a vector, or the inanimate environment. It also means
an infestation by an ectoparasite and similar species.
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