Your assigned client has encephalitis, and there are other cases in the community. In a team meeting regarding your client and prevention of other cases of encephalitis, the nurse supervisor talks about breaking the chain of infection at the second link: the reservoir. You realize the nurse supervisor is talking about which of the following things?

A.    an area for the storage and filtering of water
B.    a place where the microorganism enters the body
C.    the place where the microorganism naturally lives
D.    the microorganism itself

Ans: C