Two current methods to prevent disease
Wash hands often and wear a mask
Almost the smallest of the bunch and is not considered living but instead takes over the host's cells
Viruses
At the salad bar several people got sick from eating the chicken that was stored at room temperature.
Food borne and indirect
Term that isolates a contaminated person.
Quarantine
This insect spreads malaria.
Mosquito
What must happen if a person gets a notifiable disease like cholera in NSW?
It must be reported to the Department of Health.
Another small organism. Comes in three different shapes; rods, spirals and cocci (circles). Might be able to be treated by antibiotics
Bacteria
You can't get HIV from skin contact. It must be....
blood or body fluid contact
Anything that transmits disease from host to host and starts with a V (same as a maths term)
vector
This type of animal was responsible for spreading the bubonic plague.
Fleas on rodents
Infectious diseases or dangerous animals and plants from overseas can be prevented from entering Australia by this action.
Quarantine.
List one ectoparasite
Ticks, lice, scabies mites, leeches
If you don't wash your hands after using the bathroom you could get a disease from...
faecal contact/faecal contamination
This plague is often referred to as the Black Death and killed a 30 to 60% of Europe's population at one time.
Bubonic plague
What is the vector for filariasis?
Mosquito
By doing this you can protect yourself and society from potentially fatal diseases.
Getting vaccinated
True / False. Ringworm is an intestinal parasite.
False. It's a fungal infection...Tinea corporis
Traveller's diarrhoea, Giardia, and dysentery, cholera are transmitted through
contaminated water
When your body starts a fever, these cells work better in a warmer environment.
Macrophages, phagocytes, neutophils
This parasitic animal lives on possums, bandicoots and deer and can pass on lyme disease
ticks
Overusing antibiotics can lead to...
antibiotic resistance
Single celled, eucaryotic. An example is Amoeba.
protists or protozoa
Sneezing and coughing can cause ____________ transmission of diseases
airborne and direct transmission
The branch of medicine that is the study of how diseases start, spread and need to be controlled
epidemiology
This organism sometimes causes school children to be sent home!
head lice