Disease Types
A "contagious" disease
What is infectious?
Air, water, parasites, poor hygiene
How can infectious disease be spread?
What is a virus?
The system in our bodies which fights disease
What is the immune system?
What is a stimulus?
Cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis
What are non-infectious diseases?
A disease spreading in an area more than expected in a short time period
What is an epidemic?
Treated with antibiotics
What is bacteria?
The cells which scan the body for infections
What are white blood cells?
Senses a change from the normal conditions
What is a receptor?
The cause of contagious diseases
What is pathogens?
A disease spreading across a wider region
What is a pademic?
Contains a cytoplasm
What is a bacterium?
What is herd immunity?
Non-conscious, automatic decisions
What is an involuntary response?
Particle that reproduces by taking over living cells
What is a virus?
A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease
What is a vaccine?
Is considered to be non-living
What is a virus?
Cells that are capable of responding to an infectious particle when it is reintroduced into the body
What are memory cells?
Changes in behaviour that require a conscious decision
What is a voluntary response?
What is bacteria?
An organism that transmits a disease from one plant or animal to another
What is a vector?
Acts to block virus-host interactions
What is an antiviral?
Released by immune cells to allow for infectious particles to be removed from the body
What is an antibody?
The system in the body that is responsible for responding to change
What is the nervous system?