Germs
Nonspecific Defense
Specific Defense
Major Diseases
Other ways of Protection
100
An invading cell that makes your body sick
What is a germ
100
Nose hairs
What are small hairs in your nose that serve to protect your body
100
Specific Defense
What are the defenses inside your body specifically geared for pathogens?
100
A very deadly fever originating from west Africa.
What is ebola
100
Chemicals that seek out and destroy bacteria.
What are antibiotics?
200
This is what occurs when a germ (or antigen) invades your body
What is an illness?
200
The skin
What is the largest organ in your body that serves as a giant barrier for disease
200
B-Cells
What are the cells located in your bones that create Antibodies?
200
Another name for influenza
What is the flu
200
A weakened form of a pathogen that is injected into the body.
What is a vaccine.
300
The immune systems function in the body.
Fighting off antigens?
300
Non-specific defense
What are barriers on the outside of your body not specialized for a specific pathogens?
300
T-cells
What are specially created cells designed to seek and destroy antigens?
300
The most infectious diseases in the world.
What is HIV/AIDS
300
Proper hygiene.
What is the most effective way of preventing diseases?
400
Germs cause organs to swell up in response to infection
What is inflammation?
400
Mucus
What is a sticky fluid that can trap pathogens, and naturally occurs throughout your body?
400
Phagocytes
What are white blood cells that "eat" invading organisms?
400
A variation of chicken pox that is much more deadly but has been eradicated from the world.
What is small pox?
400
A disease with no known cure or treatment
What is an incurable disease?
500
A group of germs that invades your body to make it sick, these germs are non-living, and replicate inside your body
What is a virus?
500
Gastric Juices
What is acidic fluid in the stomach that will kill pathogens?
500
Antibodies
What are the cells produced by B-cells that destroy pathogens?
500
What is a virus that is spread through blood contact, that has a near 100% fatality rate
What is Rabies
500
Forced isolation from the rest of the healthy population (When you have a disease)
What is quarantine?
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