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| Pathogens spread when a sick person coughs or sneezes and infected droplets are expelled. |
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| Anything that causes a disease |
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| a shot that contains dead or weakened pathogens |
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| a poison produced by some pathogens that harms the body's cells |
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| a scientist who studies the causes and the spread of diseases |
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| single-celled organisms that are the largest known pathogens |
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| tiny hairlike projections in your air passages |
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| Hydrochloric acid in this organ kills pathogens |
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| most infections are caused by this |
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| Barriers that keep pathogens out of the body |
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| defense barriers like cilia, hydrochoric acid, scabs, skin, chemical in sweat, tears, ear wax. |
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| Three jobs of white blood cells in immune system |
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identify and respond to messages
store info about pathogens
reduce and release ? to kill pathogens |
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| What do epidemiologists study? |
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the spread of diseases
find the source and prevent disease |
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| What was one reason God gave the laws to the Israelites? |
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| to promote good health habits |
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| Two classifications of diseases |
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Communicable - contagious
Noncommunicable - noncontagious |
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| What important discovery was made by Alexander Feming? |
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| diseases can be caused by organisms too small to be seen |
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| Can a particular pathogen cause more than one disease? |
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| special protection against a disease |
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| Is a virus a living organism? |
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| the body remembers the pathogen and resists it, or the body reacts to the pathogens in a vaccine and stores the information (either you have had the vaccine or had the disease - example. chicken pox) |
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| protection against disease for a limited time passed on from the mother to the newborn |
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| anything that causes the immune system to have an allergic reaction |
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| A person receiving an organ transplant must take medicines to suppress what? |
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| the reaction of the immune system |
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| Malaria is caused by what? |
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| protozoans that infect a certain kind of mosquito |
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| The four most common types of pathogens |
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| protozoans, fungi, bacteria, viruses |
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| the body's specific defense against disease which identifies and fights pathogens |
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| a nonspecific defense - swelling, redness, heat, and pain |
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| a transparent fluid which along with blood carries white blood cells through the body |
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able to destroy all types of pathogens
made by the body to fight specific pathogens |
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-can work against bacterial infections and some types of fungi
-able to fight more than one bacterial infection
-cannot work against viruses |
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