Defenses Against Diseases
Defense mechanisms that can trap, attack, and wash pathogens away.
a sore throat with fever caused by streptococcal infection.
What is Strep Throat?
An assortment of symptoms caused by a cold virus which include sneezing, sore throats, runny noses, coughing, chest congestion, fever, headaches, and muscle aches.
What is The Common Cold?
A cause of spreading a disease which includes the large amounts of travelling people throughout the world.
What is International Travel?
A system that kills pathogens and bacteria by using powerful acids.
What is the Digestive System?
A disease caused by a tick bite that causes fever, chills, and body aches.
What is Lyme Disease?
A common viral infection of the respiratory system spread by airborne droplets on contaminated surfaces.
What is Influenza?
A trait that some pathogens pick up that allows them to be protected from some medicines.
What is Drug Protection?
A bodily reaction that fights infection and promotes the healing process. Also called the second line of defense.
An infection in the fluid of the spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the brain.
What is Bacterial Meningitis?
A serious infection of the lungs that can lead to large amounts of chest congestion and difficulties breathing.
What is Pneumonia?
A cause of many diseases being spread that includes the transport of produce across the world.
What is Global Food Supply?
A protective physical and chemical barrier that prevents most pathogens from entering the body.
What is Skin?
A highly contagious bacterial infection of the lungs.
What is Tuberculosis
An inflammation of the liver that can cause fever, nausea, abdominal pain, and yellowing skin.
What is Hepatitis?
A decrease in the amount of people taking vaccines which can lead to some severe diseases becoming more popular.
What is Lack of Immunization