Pathogens
How Pathogens Spread
Immune System
HIV/AIDS
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What are the 4 types of pathogens?
Virus, bacteria, fungi, protzoa
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What are 3 ways that pathogens can spread?
Direct contact, indirect contact, contact with animals or insects, contaminated food and water
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What are 3 of the 5 major barriers between you and pathogens?
Tears, mucous membranes, saliva, skin, and stomach acid
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Can you get HIV through casual contact with a person who has the virus?
No
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What is the definition of a communicable disease?
A disease that can be spread to a person from another person, an animal, or an object
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What is the definition of a pathogen?

A germ that causes a disease

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A wood tick biting you is an example of what kind of way pathogens can spread?
Contact with animals or insects
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If pathogens make it past the nonspecific immune response, what type of immune response takes over?
The specific immune response
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What does AIDS stand for?
Acquired Immune Deficiency
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What type of pathogen causes Strep Throat?
Bacteria
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What kind of pathogen is the smallest and simplest type of pathogen?
Virus
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You buy some blueberries from the store, but you do not wash them before you eat them. This is an example of what kind of way pathogens can spread?
Contaminated food and water
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What is the definition of "immune system"?

A combination of body defenses that fight pathogens in the body

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What does HIV stand for?
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
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What are 5 ways to keep yourself and others safe from pathogens?
Stay home when sick, wash your hands, do not share hygiene items, don't bite your fingernails, completely cook your food, wash fruits/veggies, wash counter tops, cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze, etc. 
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Athletes foot is an example of a disease caused by which kind of pathogen?
Fungi
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Sharing an eating utensil is an example of what kind of way pathogens spread?

Indirect Contact
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What is a vaccine?
A preparation of dead or weakened pathogens that is introduced into the body to cause an immune response
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When does HIV turn into AIDS?
When HIV weakens your immune system too much, then AIDS develops
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What kind of blood cells help kill off pathogens?
White blood cells
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What are two communicable diseases that can spread to humans from an animal?
Lymes disease, West Nile virus, Rabies
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I sneezed into my hand and then gave my friend a high five. This is an example of what kind of way pathogens spread?
Direct Contact
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Which immune response remembers pathogens that have entered your body before?
The specific immune response
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What are 3 ways HIV is not spread?
Being bitten by a mosquito, touching tears or sweat of an infected person, shaking hands or hugging an infected person, swimming in the same water as an infected person, sharing utensils with an infected person, donating blood, sharing sports equipment, etc.
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What are 3 different communicable diseases and what kind of pathogens cause those diseases?
Virus - cold, chicken pox, mono, rabies, West Nile

Bacteria - pink eye, strep throat, Lymes disease, tuberculosis

Fungi - athletes foot, ringworm

Protozoa - malaria

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