Vocabulary
What is hemophilia?
An inherited disease
What gives you lymes disease?
A tick
What did Edward Jenner discover?
Cowpox can make a vaccine for smallpox
How to Prevent Person to Person Spreading of Disease.
Washing Hands, or covering cough/sneeze
How many types of microbes are there?
4
What is pathogen?
Anything that makes you sick
What do you call inherited diseases?
Hemophilia
What did Francisco Redi discover?
Meat doesn’t produce maggots
What is the most effective (and least expensive) way to prevent transmission of infections?
Good Hand Hygiene
What type of microbe causes malaria?
Protozoa
What is the germ theory?
Disease/sickness are caused from bacteria, viruses, or fungi.
What are some biotic agents that cause diseases?
Bacteria, viruses, fungi, protist
What was Robert Koch famous for?
Described the steps of infectious disease
How to Prevent Infected Food or Water Spreading of Disease.
Boil your water and cook your food properly
What type of microbe causes sore throats?
Bacteria
What does biogenesis mean?
Life comes from life
What is an environmental cause of diseases?
Cigarette smoke
What did Louis Pasteur discover?
Pasteurization: heating kills microbes
Helped disprove spontaneous generation with flasks.
3. Found cause of rabies, chicken cholera, and anthrax in sheep
How to Prevent Infected Animal (Vector) Spreading of Disease
Limit exposure or use bug spray
What weaker strain was used to stop smallpox?
Cowpox
What is spontaneous generation?
Living organisms come from a nonliving matter.
What are some of the reasons people in the past thought caused diseases?
Curses, Evil Spirits, Bad smelling Vapors
Isolate microbe
Grow in culture
Reproduce by injecting into another host
Re-isolate microbe
The two methods of Hand Hygiene are....
1) Soap and water and 2) Alcohol based hand rub
What 4 techniques are used to control microbes?
Hygiene, isolation, disinfectants and antiseptics, and the body defences.