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The second is secondary prevention,
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which focuses on early detection of the disease.
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So you're not preventing the disease,
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but you're catching people who have it
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and then you try to prevent its progression.
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And then tertiary prevention is try to reduce the impact
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and the complications of disease.
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Now as much possible, you'd like to see primary prevention occurring.
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That's not really always possible.
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But one thing you could do for example
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with traditional infectious diseases,
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is you can take people who have the disease and then quarantine them,