Communicable Disease 1
If you looked at your kitchen and bathroom counters under a microscope, you would see millions of these...
germs
This keeps most of the pathogens out of our bodies.....
skin
Germs often enter our bodies through this.....
a cut or scratch
____________ are smaller than bacteria
viruses
If you develop an illness from a pathogen, it is called this.....
communicable disease
The 2 most common kinds of pathogens that cause communicable diseases are.......
bacteria and viruses
Antibiotics are typically not effective against this type of pathogen....
virus
Because antibiotics are generally ineffective in treating viruses, doctors use ______________ so people will become immune and not develop the disease.
vaccines
These are sometimes needed from time to time in order to maintain immunity from disease......
booster shots
Often referred to as the "flu"
influenza
mono
A mild childhood disease that causes headache, a slight fever and itchy rash.......
Chicken Pox
Germs are a type of microbe referred to as
pathogens
colds
There are 3 varieties of this disease: A, B and C
Hepatitis
A small parasitic insect that can live on a human host....
Lice