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The duration between recommended dental checkups.

What is 6 months?

100

An infection spread by mosquitoes. Symptoms include high fever, chills, headache, and muscle pain 

What is Malaria? 

100

A disorder that occurs when the air passages in the lungs become inflamed and swollen, causing them to narrow.

What is Asthma?

100
A disease that can be easily transmitted from one person to another through direct contact or indirect contact.
What is a communicable disease?
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A disease that can be transmitted through direct contact with infected blood, through blood transfusions, and from the infected mother to her child (either during pregnancy, at childbirth, or through breast-feeding).
What is HIV/AIDS?
200

Visit your health care professional every year to check on of these to make sure you are healthy and everything is working properly.

What is a physical?

200

These are the causes of infectious diseases.

What are bacteria, virus, or other organisms that invade the body?

200

What is the most common type of cancer for men and women respectively?

Prostate and Breast Cancer

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Illness that lasts a long time or recurs many times throughout a person's life.
What is a chronic illness?
200
Unexplained weight loss, extreme fatigue, and pain that is not relieved are all considered _______________ of diseases or disorders.
What are general warning signs?
300

After puberty, everyone should do this every month?

What is a self-examination?

300
Examples are chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis
What is a sexually transmitted disease?
300
Symptoms: extreme hunger, fatigue, numbness in hands or feet, and sores that don't heal well or quickly.
What is diabetes?
300
A disease acquired through genetics, exposure to environmental hazards, or lifestyle choices.
What is a non-communicable disease?
300
The percent of new cases of STD's that are found in adolescents and young adults each year.
What is 66 percent?
400

Avoiding obesity, cutting down fat intake, eating more high-fibre foods, including foods rich in Vit A and C, including cruciferous veggies, reduce sodium intake, avoid alcohol.

What are recommended ways to reduce the risk of cancer?

400
This infectious disease comes in 5 different forms or varieties.
What is Hepatitis?
400
In this year, cancer surpassed heart disease as the leading killer among Americans.
What is 2005?
400
The deliberate exposure to a small, safe amount of some of the most infectious disease you may encounter.
What is an immunization?
400
This is used to help people recognize the warning signs that could possible indicate cancer.
What is C.A.U.T.I.O.N.?
500

This best way to prevent diseases over your lifetime.

What are your lifestyle choices?

500
The common name for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
What is Mad Cow Disease?
500
This has a 32% death rate among men and a 25% death rate among women.
What is lung cancer?
500
A combination of body defenses made up of the cells, tissues and organs that fight off pathogens and disease.
What is the immune system?
500
These can go undetected for years and can cause infertility, blindness, and even death.
What are STD's?
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