Infectious Disease
The Body's Defenses
Preventing Infectious Disease
How the Immune System Works
Hodgepodge
100
Example of this type of disease transfer is shaking hands
What is Direct Contact?
100
This is the first line of defense
What are Barriers?
100
This immunity is gained when a person's own immune system produces antibodies in response to a pathogen
What is active immunity?
100
This cell divides over and over to recognize the virus
What are T Cells?
100
This type of bullying takes place online, over texts, IMs or emails
What is cyberbullying?
200
This type of disease is transferred by a tick bite
What is lyme disease?
200
Cells that produce antibodies that help destroy the pathogens
What are B cells?
200
This substance consists of pathogens that have been weakened or killed
What is vaccine?
200
Some TCells attack damaged cells of this system
What is respiratory system?
200
This is poison
What is a toxin?
300
Bacteria, fungi, protists and this are the four major groups of human pathogens
What are viruses?
300
This response is the body's way of reacting to each kind of pathogen with a defense specifically targeted for that pathogen
What is immune response?
300
This type of immunity only lasts a few months and can be passed from a pregnant mother to her unborn child
What is passive?
300
T Cells alert these cells to produce antibodies directed at the virus's antigens
What are B Cells?
300
This type of cyberbullying includes sharing someone else's secrets or personal information without their permission
What is outing?
400
This is a disease that can pass from one organism to another
What is infectious disease?
400
This disease is caused by a virus that attacks the immune system
What is AIDS?
400
These kill living bacteria but not viruses
What are antibiotics?
400
A B cell can produce this many antigens every second
What is 2000?
400
Information put on the internet can be seen by anyone because it is this
What is public?
500
This organism cause diseases
What are Pathogens?
500
This is a white blood cell that engulfs and destroys pathogens
What is phagocyte?
500
This is the deliberate introduction of harmless pathogens into a person's body
What is vaccination?
500
These destry the large clumps of viruses
What are Phagocytes?
500
The flu can be caught from coughs or sneezes, a form of this type of contact
What is indirect contact?
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