Infectious Disease
A sickness caused by a pathogen.
What is an infectious disease?
When a germ is transferred from one person to another through this form of contact.
What is person to person contact?
The four most common pathogens.
What are bacteria, fungi, virus and parasites?
Occurs through contaminated water.
What is waterborne transmission?
The most effective way to remove germs from your hands?
The two major methods of transmission.
What is direct and indirect transmission?
The spread of pathogens through a spray of respiratory secretions.
What is droplet transmission?
This illness does not use antibiotics as first line of treatment.
What is a virus?
This is how mosquitos spread diseases.
What is vector-borne transmission?
Helps protect people from several infectious diseases.
What are vaccines?
This organization tracks and studies in the U.S.
What is the Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Direct contact between an individual and an infected animal.
What is animal to person contact?
This pathogen is responsible for a staph infection.
What is a bacteria?
Occurs when infectious particles remain suspended in the air.
Cover your cough or sneeze to help prevent this.
What is disease transmission?
The way pathogens spread from a host to a person or object.
What is transmission?
Pathogen responsible for ringworm.
What is fungus?
A highly contagious disease that is spread through the air and is on the rise in the US.
What is measles?
A germ that causes diseases.
What is pathogen?
Pathogen responsible for girardia.
What are parasites?
Occurs when contaminated food spreads a disease.
What is foodborne transmision?