Disneyâs first foray into China â its theme park in Hong Kong â got off to a slow start after opening in 2005. It may be a small world, but cultural miscues, including a failure to understand how guests would use the park on holidays like Chinese New Year, resulted in angry customers and damaging media coverage.
Typically the term is used to describe an infectious agent such as a virus, bacterium, prion, fungus, viroid, or parasite that causes disease in its host. The host may be an animal, a plant, a fungus, or even another microorganism.here are several substrates including pathways where the pathogens can invade a host. The principal pathways have different episodic time frames, but soil contamination has the longest or most persistent potential for harboring a pathogen.
A vector is an agent that transmits a bacteria, virus, parasite, etc. from a source to the host. An example is the mosquito as the vector of malaria. A host is an organism that carries another in a parasitic or symbiotic relationship . An example is that if a cat has tapeworms, the cat is the host to the tapeworms. A vector is an organism that carries a parasite or pathogen to the host.