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This is a contagious respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, named a pandemic is January 2020.
What is Covid-19?
This type of disease cannot be spread among living things and objects.
What is noncommunicable disease?
This is the minimum amount of time you should wash your hands.
What is 20 seconds?
These are substances that target and kill pathogenic bacteria.
What is antibiotics?
Influenza is known more commonly as this.
What is the flu?
This is also called an infectious disease because it can be transmitted from person to person.
What is communicable disease?
This is a chronic disease in which a person's airways constrict and fill with mucus.
What is asthma?
This is the only proven method of successfully getting rid of a communicable disease.
What is a vaccine?
This is a bacterial or viral infection that affects the tonsils.
What is tonsillitis?
This disease is spread through infected ticks.
What is Lyme Disease?
This communicable disease is a very common viral infection that is also known as the kissing disease.
What is mono? (mononucleosis)
This type of diabetes usually develops later in life and is associated with obesity.
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
This is the practice of covering your mouth and nose with a tissue while coughing or sneezing.
What is respiratory etiquette?
This is a medical emergency in which flow of blood to the heart is restricted, causing the heart to beat irregularly and inefficiently.
What is heart attack?
This disease is spread through infected mosquitoes.
What is West Nile Virus? (WNV)
This type of transmission involves coughing, sneezing, spitting, and talking.
What is droplet spread?
This is a chronic noncommunicable disease that affects the brain and is also called seizure disorder.
What is epilepsy?
This is the leading type of cancer related death in the United States.
What is lung cancer?
This is a medical emergency in which blood flow to part of the brain is interrupted, injuring or killing brain cells.
What is a stroke?
This is the passing of characteristics or diseases from one generation to the next.
What is heredity?
There are four types of pathogens that cause communicable diseases: viruses, fungi, protozoa, and this.
What is bacteria?
This word means inflammation of the joints.
What is arthritis?
This is a substance that contains a dead or nontoxic part of a pathogen that is injected into a person to train the immune system.
What is a vaccine?
This is a mass of abnormal cells.
What is a tumor?
Conjunctivitis, which can be a viral or bacterial infection, is more commonly known as this.
What is pinkeye?